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Volume 180 Issue 12

21 June 2004

From the editor’s desk

Medical education and hard science

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

Web and telecounselling in Australia

Helen Christensen, Barbara M Hocking and Dawn Smith

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Assessing bronchodilator reversibility: agreed standards are urgently needed

Christine Jenkins and Iven Young

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 605-606

Evidence and Australian health policy

Martin B Van Der Weyden and Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 607-608

Research

Bronchodilator reversibility testing: laboratory practices in Australia and New Zealand

Brigitte M Borg, David W Reid, E Haydn Walters and David P Johns

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 610-613 Free

Congenital heart defects in Central Australia

Srinivas Bolisetty, Ameet Daftary, Dan Ewald, Brodie Knight and Gavin Wheaton

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 614-617 Free

Remoteness of residence and survival from cancer in New South Wales

Katharine E Jong, David P Smith, Xue Q Yu, Dianne L O’Connell, David Goldstein and Bruce K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 618-622 Free

Public health

Incidence of hip fracture in New South Wales: are our efforts having an effect?

Soufiane Boufous, Caroline F Finch and Stephen R Lord

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 623-626 Free

Healthcare

The Australian Government’s Review of Positron Emission Tomography: evidence-based policy-making in action

Robert E Ware, Hilton W Francis and Kenneth E Read

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 627-632 Free

The Australian Government’s Review of Positron Emission Tomography: an open door

Philip Davies

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Position statement

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in acute ischaemic stroke: time for collegiate communication and consensus

Christopher R Levi, on behalf of the Australasian Stroke Unit Network, the New South Wales Greater Metropolitan Transition Taskforce Stroke Initiative, and the Towards A Safer Culture Stroke Expert Working Group

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 634-636 Free

Viewpoint

Ethics, stem cells and spinal cord repair

Jeffrey V Rosenfeld and Grant R Gillett

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 637-639 Free

Lessons from practice

Influenza outbreaks in aged-care facilities: staff vaccination and the emerging use of antiviral therapy

Rebecca J Guy, Richard Di Natale, Sean Tobin, Priscilla M Robinson, Graham Tallis, Heath A Kelly, Stephen B Lambert and Alan W Hampson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 640-642 Free

Teaching on the run

Teaching on the run tips 3: planning a teaching episode

Fiona R Lake and Gerard Ryan

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 643-644

Complementary and alternative medicine

CAM practitioners and “regular” doctors: is integration possible?

Marc M Cohen

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 645-646 Free

Good medicine and bad medicine: science to promote the convergence of “alternative” and orthodox medicine

John M Dwyer

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 647-648 Free

Letters

Transoesophageal echocardiography in routine cardiac surgery

Chris J Cokis and John Faris

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Community-acquired MRSA epiduritis in an Australian prison inmate

Sebastiaan J M van Hal and Jeffrey J Post

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 650-651

Training our future rural medical workforce

Sandy Reid

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Training our future rural medical workforce

Barney J McCusker

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Training our future rural medical workforce

S Bruce Dowton and Danielle Brown

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Cancer in adolescents and young adults: treatment and outcome in Victoria

Les White, Jane Ewing, Anne M Senner, Madeleine King and Belinda Goodenough

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 653-654

Cancer in adolescents and young adults

Alex N Thomson

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Cancer in adolescents and young adults

Anne E Mitchell, Deborah L Scarcella, Gemma L Rigutto, David M Ashley, Vicky J Thursfield, Graham G Giles and Maree Sexton

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Olympic medals or long life: what’s the bottom line?

John Orchard and Caroline Finch

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 655-656

Olympic medals or long life: what’s the bottom line?

Craig R Mitton, H Dele Davies and Cam Donaldson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (12): 655-656

An audit of obstetricians’ management of women potentially infected with blood-borne viruses

Donald M Clark

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Book reviews

Trust v accountability in healthcare

Kerry J Goulston

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All your allergies covered

Constance H Katelaris

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Cannabis — the honest truth!

David McDonald

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Dementia — a guide for patients and carers

Dina C LoGiudice

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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