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Volume 182 Issue 2

17 January 2005

From the editor’s desk

Twenty-five cents a day

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 49 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): Free

Editorials

Screening for colorectal cancer: virtually there

Finlay A Macrae

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 52-53

A new integrated vision of how to prevent harmful drug use

Wendy M Loxley, John W Toumbourou and Timothy R Stockwell

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 54-55

Postcard from the UK

Biobank: who’d bank on it?

Konrad Jamrozik, David P Weller and Richard F Heller

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 56-57

Research

Barriers to Australian physicians’ and paediatricians’ involvement in randomised controlled trials

Patrina H Y Caldwell, Jonathan C Craig and Phyllis N Butow

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 59-65 Free

Is the Framingham coronary heart disease absolute risk function applicable to Aboriginal people?

Zhiqiang Wang and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 66-69 Free

Working with registrars: a qualitative study of interns’ perceptions and experiences

Christopher S Lack and John A Cartmill

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 70-72 Free

Notable cases

A syndromic rash in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales

Jon N Currie, Jimmy Chien, Lisa Snell, Margaret Cluff, Karen Scrivener, Lucinda Wallman and Elizabeth M Benson

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 73-75 Free

A case of desquamating rash associated with methadone use

Natalie Kordjian, Annabelle D Donaldson, Steven A Krilis and Dedee F Murrell

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 76-77 Free

Clinical update

Advances in childhood leukaemia: successful clinical-trials research leads to individualised therapy

David S Ziegler, Glenn M Marshall, Luciano Dalla Pozza and Keith D Waters

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 78-81 Free

Viewpoint

Hypertension guidelines, meta-analyses and clinical trials: do we assume too much?

Roger E Peverill

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 82-84 Free

EBM: Trials on trial

Does chewing sucrose-free chewing gum after meals reduce the development of carious lesions?

Claudine E Tsao and Michael V Morgan

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 85-86

Allocation concealment and blinding: when ignorance is bliss

Peta M Forder, Val J Gebski and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 87-89

Obituaries

Philip Kessly, MB ChB, FRACGP

Peter M Winterton

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 90 Free

Robert Trevor Anderson, MB BS, DPM, FRANZCP

David Ames

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 90 Free

Letters

Antidepressant use in children: a less depressing story

Christopher M Harrison and Helena C Britt

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 92

Postpartum toxic shock syndrome associated with multiple splenic infarcts

Adrienne Torda

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 93

Transoesophageal echocardiography in routine cardiac surgery

John W Stokes

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 93-94

Transoesophageal echocardiography in routine cardiac surgery

Chris Cokis and John Faris

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 93-94

Abortion: time to clarify Australia’s confusing laws

Selena R Ewing

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 94-95

Abortion: time to clarify Australia’s confusing laws

Leslie Reti

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 94-95

Abortion: time to clarify Australia’s confusing laws

Lachlan J de Crespigny and Julian Savulescu

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 94-95

Throwing the baby out with the spa water?

Sarah J Buckley

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 95-96

Throwing the baby out with the spa water?

Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 95-96

Throwing the baby out with the spa water?

Graham M Slaney and Susan M Stratigos

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 95-96

Correction

Correction: Prescribing of amino acid formula

Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): 96

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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