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Volume 182 Issue 6

21 March 2005

From the editor’s desk

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Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 257 Free

In This Issue

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Editorials

The safety of Australian healthcare: 10 years after QAHCS

Ross McL Wilson and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 260-261

COX-2 inhibitors: exemplars of the drug-safety conundrum

Mark R Nelson, Andrew M Tonkin, Flavia M Cicuttini and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 262-263

The tsunami of tuberculosis

Ivan Bastian

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 263-264

Managing adverse drug reactions: time to get serious

Elizabeth E Roughead

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 264-265

Research

Adverse drug reactions in older Australians, 1981–2002

Christel L Burgess, C D’Arcy J Holman and Anthony G Satti

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 267-270 Free

Effect of psychiatry liaison with general practitioners on depression severity in recently hospitalised cardiac patients: a randomised controlled trial

Geoff Schrader, Frida Cheok, Ann-Louise Hordacre, Julie Marker and Victoria Wade

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 272-276 Free

Stage at diagnosis and cancer survival for Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory

John R Condon, Tony Barnes, Bruce K Armstrong, Sid Selva-Nayagam and J Mark Elwood

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 277-280 Free

Position statement

Vitamin D and adult bone health in Australia and New Zealand: a position statement

Terrence H Diamond, John A Eisman, Rebecca S Mason, Caryl A Nowson, Julie A Pasco, Philip N Sambrook and John D Wark, Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, Endocrine Society of Australia and Osteoporosis Australia*

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 281-285 Free

New Drugs, Old Drugs

Lipid-modifying drugs

Leon A Simons and David R Sullivan

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 286-289 Free

For debate

Private health insurance and regional Australia

Buddhima Lokuge, Thomas A Faunce and Richard Denniss

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 290-293 Free

Notable cases

Fatal muscarinic syndrome after eating wild mushrooms

John L Pauli and Carole L Foot

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 294-295 Free

Lessons from practice

Beware of the unilateral red eye: don’t miss blinding uveitis

Shane R Durkin and Theresa M Casey

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 296-297 Free

MJA Practice Essentials – Paediatrics

6. Atopic disease in childhood

Michael S Gold and Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 298-304 Free

Letters

“Texting” tendinitis

Robert J Menz

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 308

Malabsorption in pregnancy after biliopancreatic diversion for morbid obesity

Lourdes I St George and Daniel Lin

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 308-309

Barriers to diagnosing and managing heart failure in primary care

Alexandra A Bennett, Jo-anne E Brien and Peter S Macdonald

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 309

Near-drowning treated with therapeutic hypothermia

Matthew J Bragg and Paul Middleton

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 309-310

Near-drowning treated with therapeutic hypothermia

Jonathan P Williamson and Stan Braude

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 309-310

Diabetes, psychotic disorders and antipsychotic therapy: a consensus statement

Andrew Firestone

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 310

Diabetes, psychotic disorders and antipsychotic therapy: a consensus statement

Timothy J R Lambert and Leon H Chapman

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 310

Age-related macular degeneration and its possible prevention

Marc M Cohen

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 310-311

Age-related macular degeneration and its possible prevention

Ian J Constable

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 310-311

Working with registrars: a registrar’s perspective

Kenneth Wong

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 311-312

The ageing population

Jeanette I Nordon

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 312

Correction

Correction: Bilateral acute angle closure caused by supraciliary effusions associated with venlafaxine intake

Maria Hannah Pia de Guzman, Sureka Thiagalingam, Poh Yan Ong and Ivan Goldberg

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 312

Obituary

David Ogilvie White AO, MB BS, PhD, MSc, FRCPA, MD, FASM

Roy M Robins-Browne and Michael J Studdert

Med J Aust 2005; 182 (6): 285 Free

Book reviews

Reefer madness

Joshua D Geffen

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Darker side of “wonder drugs”

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Columns

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