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Volume 180 Issue 8

19 April 2004

From the editor’s desk

The beginning of the end for EBM

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 369 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): Free

Editorials

The campaign to revitalise academic medicine kicks off

Peter Tugwell

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 372-373

Selenium: does selenium status have health outcomes beyond overt deficiency?

Lynne A Daniels

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 373-374

Managing Barrett's oesophagus

Geoffrey S Hebbard and Sanjay Nandurkar

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 375-376

Tested teaching tips

Peter B Greenberg and Susan L Elliott

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 376-377

Conference report

PSA testing in general practice: can we do more now?

Carole B Pinnock

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 379-381

Research

Trends in selenium status of South Australians

Graham H Lyons, James C R Stangoulis, Lyndon T Palmer, Robin D Graham, Geoffrey J Judson and Janine A Jones

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 383-386 Free

Proton-pump inhibitor therapy and the development of dysplasia in patients with Barrett’s oesophagus

Lybus C Hillman, Louise Chiragakis, Graham L Kaye, Anthony C Clarke and Bruce Shadbolt

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 387-391 Free

Multisite, quality-improvement collaboration to optimise cardiac care in Queensland public hospitals

Ian A Scott, Irene C Darwin, Kathy H Harvey, Andy B Duke, Hazel Harden, Nicholas D Buckmaster, John Atherton and Michael Ward, for the CHI Cardiac Collaborative*

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 392-397 Free

Clinical update

Bronchiolitis: assessment and evidence-based management

Dominic A Fitzgerald and Henry A Kilham

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 399-404 Free

Viewpoint

The medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry: when will we open our eyes?

Kerry J Breen

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 409-410

Clinical ethics

The ethics of pharmaceutical industry relationships with medical students

Wendy A Rogers, Peter R Mansfield, Annette J Braunack-Mayer and Jon N Jureidini

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 411-414 Free

Commentary

Pharmaceutical companies and medical students: a student’s view

Matthew S Hutchinson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 414

Teaching on the run

Teaching on the run tips: doctors as teachers

Fiona R Lake

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 415-416

MJA Practice Essentials —Endocrinology

9: Pituitary disease in adults

David M Hurley and Ken K Y Ho

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 419-425 Free

Corrections

Overweight and obesity in Australia: the 1999–2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab)

Adrian J Cameron, Paul Z Zimmet, David W Dunstan, Marita Dalton, Jonathan E Shaw, Timothy A Welborn, Neville Owen, Jo Salmon and Damien Jolley

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 418

Bone and joint disorders: prevention and control

Peter M Brooks, Michael J Hooper and Richard A Smallwood

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 418

Parallel infusion of hydrocortisone ± chlorpheniramine bolus injection to prevent acute adverse reactions to antivenom for snakebites

S Abeysingha M Kularatne and Indika B Gawarammana

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 428

Letters

Parallel infusion of hydrocortisone ± chlorpheniramine bolus injection to prevent acute adverse reactions to antivenom for snakebites

Simon G A Brown

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 428-429

Parallel infusion of hydrocortisone ± chlorpheniramine bolus injection to prevent acute adverse reactions to antivenom for snakebites

Indika B Gawarammana

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 428-429

Parallel infusion of hydrocortisone ± chlorpheniramine bolus injection to prevent acute adverse reactions to antivenom for snakebites

Val J Gebski

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 428-429

Multidisciplinary care for women with early breast cancer in the Australian context

Michael A Quinn

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 429-430

Multidisciplinary care for women with early breast cancer in the Australian context

Susan C Pendlebury, Katherine J Clark and Martin H N Tattersall

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 429-430

Multidisciplinary care for women with early breast cancer in the Australian context

Helen M Zorbas, Bruce H Barraclough, Katherine J Rainbird, Karen A Luxford and Sally Redman

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 429-430

Australian rural high school students’ interest in health careers: implications for our future workforce?

John Fraser, Christian Alexander and Berniece Simpkins

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 431-432

Nodular melanomas and older men: a major challenge for community surveillance programs

Alex J Chamberlain and John W Kelly

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (8): 432

Book review

Sexual dysfunction handbook

Michael P Lowy

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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