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Volume 181 Issue 5

6 September 2004

From the editor’s desk

Postmortem care

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 233 Free

In This Issue

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Editorials

Passive smoking and breast cancer: is the evidence for cause now convincing?

J Mark Elwood and Robert C Burton

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 236-237

The SAFE Study: a landmark trial of the safety of albumin in intensive care

Simon R Finfer, Neil W Boyce and Robyn N Norton

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 237-238

Postcard from the UK

Suspected child abuse: false positives or false negatives?

Richard F Heller, Konrad Jamrozik and David P Weller

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 240-241

Conference report

Reducing drug-related harm: Australia leads the way

Alison J Ritter, Alex D Wodak and J Nick Crofts

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 242-243

Research

Risk factors for ischaemic stroke recurrence after hospitalisation

Andy H Lee, Peter J Somerford and Kelvin K W Yau

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 244-246 Free

Use of complementary and alternative medicines by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Johnson George, David C M Kong, Kay Stewart, Lisa L Ioannides-Demos and Nick M Santamaria

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 248-251 Free

Healthcare

The potential for tobacco control to reduce PBS costs for smoking-related cardiovascular disease

Susan F Hurley, Michelle M Scollo, Sandra J Younie, Dallas R English and Maurice G Swanson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 252-255 Free

For debate

Will the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement undermine the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?

Ken J Harvey, Thomas A Faunce, Buddhima Lokuge and Peter Drahos

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 256-259

Clinical update

Paget’s disease of bone

John P Walsh

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 262-265 Free

Viewpoint

Public reporting of individual surgeon performance information: United Kingdom developments and Australian issues

David A Neil, Justin G Oakley and Steve Clarke

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 266-268 Free

Lessons from practice

Japanese encephalitis vaccine: is it being sufficiently used in travellers?

Catherine M Geraghty and James S McCarthy

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 269-270 Free

The profession

Time for hard decisions on patient-centred professionalism

Donald H Irvine

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 271-274 Free

Complementary and alternative medicine

Undergraduate teaching of complementary medicine

Peter M Brooks

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 275

Teaching integrated care: CAM familiarisation courses

David Owen and George T Lewith

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 276-278 Free

Snapshots

Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from pulmonary metastatic phyllodes tumour of the breast

Fiona J Collinson, A Michael Bilous and Richard F Kefford

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 279-280 Free

Outside the pyramid

Stephen R Leeder AO

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 280-280 Free

Letters

Japanese encephalitis acquired near Port Moresby: implications for residents and travellers to Papua New Guinea

Joshua P Hanson, Carmel T Taylor, Ann R Richards, Ina L Smith and Craig S Boutlis

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 282

New recommendation on Japanese encephalitis vaccination for travellers to Papua New Guinea

George Rubin and Jeanette Baird, on behalf of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI)

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 283

Smoking cessation and elective surgery: the cleanest cut

Darryl J Hodgkinson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 283-285

Smoking cessation and elective surgery: the cleanest cut

Nicholas A Tonti-Filippini

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 283-285

Smoking cessation and elective surgery: the cleanest cut

Matthew J Peters, Lucy C Morgan and Laurence Gluch

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 283-285

Smoking and pregnancy

Jessica H Ford and Annette J Dobson

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 285-286

Androgen deficiency and replacement therapy in men

Adam P Morton

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 286-287

Androgen deficiency and replacement therapy in men

David J Handelsman and Jeffrey D Zajac

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 286-287

Treatment of osteoporosis: why, whom, when and how to treat

B E Christopher Nordin and Allan G Need

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 287-288

Treatment of osteoporosis: why, whom, when and how to treat

Ego Seeman and John A Eisman

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 287-288

Unexpected infant death: lessons from the Sally Clark case

John M N Hilton

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 288

Obituary

Sukhi ChandMB BS, FRCSEd, FRACS

A Denis Campbell

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (5): 268 Free

Book review

The “new” public health

Ian W Webster

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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