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Volume 180 Issue 3

2 February 2004

From the editor’s desk

Marketing medicine

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 97 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): Free

Editorials

The “Cam affair”: an isolated incident or destined to be repeated?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 100-101

Training our future rural medical workforce

Susan M Wearne and John Wakerman

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 101-102

E-drug deals: part of the Wild West world of e-commerce

Alan J Gijsbers and Gregory Whelan

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 103-104

The continuing legacy of the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study

Timothy M E Davis and Stephen Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 104-105

Research

A case for more year-long internships outside metropolitan areas?

Hedley G Peach, Maxine Trembath and Bernie Fensling

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 106-108 Free

Causes of sudden cardiac death in young Australians

Alessandra Doolan, Christopher Semsarian and Neil Langlois

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 110-112 Free

Back for more: a qualitative study of emergency department reattendance for asthma

Dianne P Goeman, Francis C K Thien, Jo A Douglass, Rosalie A Aroni, Michael J Abramson, Susan M Sawyer and Kay Stewart

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 113-117 Free

For debate

Overseas-based online pharmacies: a source of supply for illicit drug users?

Bernard N St George, Joseph R Emmanuel and Kate L Middleton

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 118-119

Diagnostic dilemmas

Palpable purpura, polyarthritis and abdominal pain

Surabhi Mukhopadhyay, Soha Mousa, Biby R George and Andras Perl

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 121-122

Medicine and the law

Failed sterilisations and the unwanted child: a new medicolegal minefield?

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 123-125

EBM: Trials on trial

Should smokers be referred to a smoking-cessation clinic before undergoing elective surgery?

Paul S Myles

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 126-127

Making sense of trial results: outcomes and estimation

Rachel L O'Connell, Val J Gebski and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 128-130

MJA Practice Essentials — Endocrinology

4: Polycystic ovary syndrome

Robert J Norman, Ruijin Wu and Marcin T Stankiewicz

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 132-137 Free

Letters

Multicentre research: negotiating the ethics approval obstacle course

Lynne M Roberts, Lucy Bowyer, Caroline S Homer and Mark A Brown

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 139

Surveillance for Barrett’s oesophagus: if you do it, do it properly

Gautam Ramnath and Peter Bampton

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 139-140

Lessons from early large-scale adoption of celecoxib and rofecoxib by Australian general practitioners

Mark R Nelson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 140

Effect of computerised prescribing on use of antibiotics

Ian D Coombes, Danielle A Stowasser, Charles A Mitchell and Paul Varghese

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 140-141

Palliative care: new guidelines for psychosocial care

Jane Turner, Brian McAvoy, Karen Luxford and Jane Fletcher

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 141-142

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for acute ischaemic stroke: why so much has been made of so little

David J Blacker

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 142-143

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for acute ischaemic stroke: why so much has been made of so little

Jerome R Hoffman

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 142-143

Heart failure: how can we prevent the epidemic?

Matthew T Naughton, Darren R Mansfield, David M Kaye, Peter Bergin and Meroula Richardson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 143

Heart failure: how can we prevent the epidemic?

Duncan J Campbell

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 143

Pet owners and risk factors in cardiovascular disease

Balakrishnan R Nair and Brendan Flynn

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 144

Pet owners and risk factors in cardiovascular disease

Michael McDonnell

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 144

Obituary

Walter Monz MB BS(Hons)

John A Comerford

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (3): 130 Free

Book reviews

Ambitious guide to diagnostic tests

Eva Raik

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Special health care for gays and lesbians: a queer idea?

Gary D Rogers

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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