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Volume 183 Issue 4

15 August 2005

From the editor’s desk

Patients and teaching and training

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 170 Free

Editorials

Syphilis: back on the rise, but not unstoppable

Christopher K Fairley, Jane S Hocking and Nicholas Medland

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 172-173

Non-conventional approaches to allergy testing: reconciling patient autonomy with medical practitioners’ concerns

Raymond J Mullins, Robert J Heddle and Pete Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 173-174

Mainstreaming the metabolic syndrome: a definitive definition

Paul Z Zimmet, Jonathan E Shaw and K George M M Alberti

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 175-176

MJA/Wyeth Prize

MJA/Wyeth Prize — 10th Anniversary

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Research

Epidemic syphilis among homosexually active men in Sydney

Fengyi Jin, Garrett P Prestage, John M Kaldor, Andrew E Grulich, Susan C Kippax, Catherine M Pell and Basil J Donovan

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Effects of asbestos and smoking on gas diffusion in people exposed to crocidolite

Helman S Alfonso, Lin Fritschi, Nicholas H de Klerk, Nola Olsen, Jan Sleith and Arthur (Bill) W Musk

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 184-187 Free

Medicine and the media

Australia’s media reporting of health and medical matters: a question of quality

Martin B Van Der Weyden and Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 188-189

Monitoring the quality of medical news reporting: early experience with media doctor

David E Smith, Amanda J Wilson and David A Henry, on behalf of the media doctor study group*

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New website is no miracle cure

Melissa A Sweet

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Evidence-based journalism: a forlorn hope?

Norman Swan

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 194-195

Medical news reporting: establishing goodwill and cooperation

Jack R Herman and John A T Morgan

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 195-196

Attitudes of oncology health professionals to information from the Internet and other media

Genni M Newnham, W Ivon Burns, Raymond D Snyder, Anthony J Dowling, Nadia F Ranieri, Emma L Gray and Sue-Anne McLachlan

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 197-200 Free

Clinical update

Phaeochromocytoma: current concepts

Yaser Alderazi, Michael W Yeh, Bruce G Robinson, Diana E Benn, Mark S Sywak, Diana L Learoyd, Leigh W Delbridge and Stan B Sidhu

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 201-204 Free

New Drugs, Old Drugs

Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors

Peter T Nash and Timothy H J Florin

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 205-208 Free

Viewpoint

Maintaining an agenda for children: the role of data in linking policy, politics and outcomes

Sharon R Goldfeld and Frank Oberklaid

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 209-211 Free

Snapshot

Acute abdomen due to omental torsion

Wen-Chan Yeow, Mohan V Jayasundera, Graham Hool and Rajalingam Sinniah

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Lessons from practice

Fit for a fracture

Hannah M Seymour and Paul Glendenning

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 213-214 Free

Obituary

Bevan Harvey Coombes MB BS, DCPM, FRCPA, FIAC, FCAP

Howard J Coombes and Andrew H Coombes

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Letters

Sustained increase in infectious syphilis notifications in Victoria

Rebecca J Guy, David E Leslie, Kleete Simpson, Beth Hatch, Jennie Leydon, Margaret E Hellard and Heath A Kelly

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Locally acquired lymphogranuloma venereum in a bisexual man

Damon P Eisen

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 218-219

Spontaneous bruising, haematomata and prolonged APTT with meloxicam

Anil M Kurien

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 219

A potential link between magnesium intake and diabetes in Indigenous Australians

Diane A Longstreet, Deanne L Heath and Robert Vink

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 219-220 Free

Venous thromboembolism: diagnosis and management of pulmonary embolism

Matthew J Bragg

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 220-221

Venous thromboembolism: diagnosis and management of pulmonary embolism

Paul M Bailey

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Venous thromboembolism: diagnosis and management of pulmonary embolism

John W Eikelboom, Graeme J Hankey, Wai Khoon Ho and Cindy H Lee

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 220-221

Screening for venous thrombosis by ultrasonography before hospital discharge after major joint surgery

Richard F O’Reilly, Ian A Burgess and Bernard Zicat

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Screening for venous thrombosis by ultrasonography before hospital discharge after major joint surgery

Alexander S Gallus

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 221-222

Familial hypercholesterolaemia: a look back, a look ahead

Ian Hamilton-Craig

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 222-223

Familial hypercholesterolaemia: a look back, a look ahead

John R Burnett, David Ravine, Frank M van Bockxmeer and Gerald F Watts

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 222-223

A picture of Australia’s children

Caroline F Finch

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 223-224

A picture of Australia’s children

George C Patton, Sharon R Goldfeld, Indrani Pieris-Caldwell, Meredith Bryant and Graham V Vimpani

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 223-224

Physical examination: bewitched, bothered and bewildered

Sandy L A Reid

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Book reviews

Neurology illustrated

James T Hughes

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Catching up on sleep apnoea

Peter Solin

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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