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Volume 180 Issue 9

3 May 2004

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): Free

Editorials

Prevention of recurrent thrombosis in the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome: how long and how high with oral anticoagulant therapy?

Ross I Baker

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 436-437

To exercise or not to exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome? No longer a question

Andrew R Lloyd

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 437-438

Estimating disease likelihood: a case of rubbery figures

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 438-439

Postcard from the UK

Modernisation or reform? The NHS approach

Richard F Heller, Konrad Jamrozik and David P Weller

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 441-442

Research

Randomised controlled trial of graded exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome

Karen E Wallman, Alan R Morton, Carmel Goodman, Robert Grove and Andrew M Guilfoyle

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 444-448 Free

Generating pre-test probabilities: a neglected area in clinical decision making

John R Attia, David W Sibbritt, Ben D Ewald, Balakrishnan R Nair, Neil S Paget, Rod F Wellard, Lesley Patterson and Richard F Heller

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 449-454 Free

Healthcare

Impact of an electronic antibiotic advice and approval system on antibiotic prescribing in an Australian teaching hospital

M Lindsay Grayson, Sharmila Melvani, Sue W Kirsa, Stephen Cheung, M Kent Garrett, Anthony M Korman and William A Thomson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 455-458 Free

Public health

Increase in type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents in Western Australia

Sarah K McMahon, Aveni Haynes, Nirubasini Ratnam, Maree T Grant, Christine L Carne, Timothy W Jones and Elizabeth A Davis

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 459-461 Free

Clinical update

Metformin therapy and diabetes in pregnancy

David Simmons, Barry N J Walters, Janet A Rowan and H David McIntyre

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 462-464 Free

EBM: Trials on trial

Does high-impact exercise in the prepubertal period have an osteogenic effect in females?

Jennifer K Peat and Geraldine A Naughton

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 465-466

Subgroup analysis: application to individual patient decisions

R John Simes, Val J Gebski and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 467-469

Lessons from practice

Successful reintroduction of statin therapy after myositis: was there another cause?

Leo P Rando, Sarah AL Cording and Harvey H Newnham

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 472-473 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Endocrinology

10: Management of obesity

Joseph Proietto and Louise A Baur

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 474-480 Free

Letters

Murine typhus: the first reported case from Victoria

Stephanie L Jones, Eugene Athan, Daniel O’Brien, Stephen R Graves, Chelsea Nguyen and John Stenos

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 482

Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndrome

Mark Little, Peter L Pereira, Richard Mulcahy, Teresa Carrette and Jamie Seymour

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 482-484

Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndrome

Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 482-484

Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndrome

Peter J Fenner

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 482-484

Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndrome

Richard J G Bonham

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 482-484

Travel insurance and medical evacuation

Peter A Leggat and Robin Griffiths

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 484-486

Travel insurance and medical evacuation

Fred Gilligan, Peter Sharley and Andrew Berry

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 484-486

Travel insurance and medical evacuation

Howard Roby

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 484-486

Are the Australian guidelines asking too much of the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI)?

Kirsty L Buising, Karin A Thursky, James F Black and Graham V Brown

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 486-487

El Niño Southern Oscillation and the transmission of hepatitis A virus in Australia

Wenbiao Hu, Anthony J McMichael and Shilu Tong

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 487-488

Snapshot

A pulmonary snowstorm

Bobby Bhalotra, Atul Gogia, Pratibha Gupta and Neeraj Jain

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 454 Free

Clinical update - Correction

Medical management of osteoarthritis of the knee and hip joints

Rebecca Grainger and Flavia M Cicuttini

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 464

Obituaries

Robert Frederick WarnockBA, MB BChir, DObstRCOG

Timothy Warnock

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 471 Free

Jack Raymond Elliott PhC, BSc, MB BS, FRANZCOG, FRCOG

Alan D Hewson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): 471 Free

Book reviews

New O & G textbook

David A Ellwood

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Columns

In Other Journals

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