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Volume 183 Issue 1

4 July 2005

From the editor’s desk

Focus on metropolitan hospitals

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 1 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): Free

Editorials

Megadose therapy for vitamin D deficiency

Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 4-5

School canteens: using ripples to create a wave of healthy eating

A Colin Bell and Boyd A Swinburn

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 5-6

The Australian Clinical Trial Registry

Martin B Van Der Weyden and Davina Ghersi

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 7

Conference report

An expanding vista: bioethics from public health, indigenous and feminist perspectives

Paul M McNeill, Ruth Macklin, Angela Wasunna and Paul A Komesaroff

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 8-9 Free

Research

Annual intramuscular injection of a megadose of cholecalciferol for treatment of vitamin D deficiency: efficacy and safety data

Terrence H Diamond, Kenneth W Ho, Peter G Rohl and Matthew Meerkin

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 10-12 Free

Short-term impact of smoking cessation on myocardial infarction and stroke hospitalisations and costs in Australia

Susan F Hurley

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 13-17 Free

Recognition of depression and psychosis by young Australians and their beliefs about treatment

Annemarie Wright, Meredith G Harris, Anthony F Jorm, Sue M Cotton, Susy M Harrigan, Patrick D McGorry, John H Wiggers and Rosalind E Hurworth

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 18-23 Free

Clinical update

The aromatase inhibitors in early breast cancer: who, when, and why?

Ilona C Nordman, Andrew J Spillane and Anne L Hamilton

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 24-27 Free

For debate

Increasing diversity at the cost of decreasing equity? Issues raised by the establishment of Australia’s first religiously affiliated medical school

Ian H Kerridge, Christopher F C Jordens, Wendy L Lipworth and Rachel A X Ankeny

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 28-30

University of Notre Dame’s reply

Adrian Bower

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 31

Accreditation of a religiously affiliated medical school

Ian B Frank and Theanne Walters

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 31-32

Teaching on the run

Teaching on the run tips 9: in-training assessment

Fiona R Lake

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 33-34

Notable cases

Deaths associated with dengue haemorrhagic fever: the first in Australia in over a century

William J H McBride

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 35-37 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition: award presentation

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 39 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay: the first of three finalists’ essays

A culture of ill health: public health or Aboriginality?

Chelsea J Bond

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 39-41 Free

MJA Practice Essentials – Paediatrics

12. Assessment of developmental learning and behavioural problems in children and young people

Trevor S Parry

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 43-48 Free

Letters

Tungiasis in recently arrived African refugees

Ashwin Swaminathan, Iain B Gosbell, Nicholas A Zwar and Mark W Douglas

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 51

Incidental finding of Dracunculus medinensis in Australia

Tulsi Menon

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 51-52

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

Simon J Vanlint

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 52-54

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

Alvin L K Chia, Stephen Shumack and Peter Foley

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 52-54

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

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 52-54

Outcome of overseas commercial kidney transplantation: an Australian perspective

Deborah J Verran

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 54

Outcome of overseas commercial kidney transplantation: an Australian perspective

Sean E Kennedy, Yvonne Shen, John A Charlesworth, James D Mackie, John D Mahony, John J P Kelly and Bruce A Pussell

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 54

The shortage of kidneys for transplantation in Australia

Raymond F Raper, Elizabeth Fugaccia and Yahya Shehabi

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 55

The shortage of kidneys for transplantation in Australia

Timothy H Mathew, Randall J Faull and Paul L Snelling

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 55

Detention for tuberculosis: public health and the law

Medical Registrar and Respiratory Physician

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 55-56

Detention for tuberculosis: public health and the law

Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 55-56

Snapshot

Golfer’s vasculitis

Rosemary L Nixon, Jacinta M Opie and Robert I Kelly

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 32 Free

Obituary

Paul Gerard Carman MB BS, FRACP

Peter M Winterton

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): 34 Free

Book reviews

Controversial scientist

Roy MacLeod

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A pocketful of heart valves

Samuel Menahem

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Getting to the heart of the matter

Jitendra K Vohra

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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Supplement

Asthma and the older Australian. What we need to know and what we need to do. Proceedings of the Macquarie Bank Asthma Australia Research Alliance Colloquium

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (1): Open Access