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Volume 183 Issue 7

3 October 2005

From the editor’s desk

Academic absenteeism

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 337 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 338 Free

Editorials

Modernising the National Health and Medical Research Council

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 340-342

Mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid: an overdue public health opportunity

Glen F Maberly and Fiona J Stanley

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 342-343

Multiple myeloma: the present and the future

Douglas E Joshua

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 344

Violence In Health Care

Violence in the workplace

Claire Mayhew and Duncan Chappell

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 346-347

Violence in health care: the contribution of the Australian Patient Safety Foundation to incident monitoring and analysis

Klee A Benveniste, Peter D Hibbert and William B Runciman

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 348-351

Experiences of occupational violence in Australian urban general practice: a cross-sectional study of GPs

Parker J Magin, Elyssa Joy, Malcolm C Ireland, Jon Adams and David W Sibbritt

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 352-356 Free

kNOw workplace violence: developing programs for managing the risk of aggression in the health care setting

John A Forster, Mark T Petty, Colin Schleiger and Helen C Walters

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 357-361 Free

Violence in emergency departments: under-reported, unconstrained, and unconscionable

Marcus P Kennedy

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 362-365 Free

Health care

Use of SMS text messaging to improve outpatient attendance

Sean R Downer, John G Meara and Annette C Da Costa

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 366-368 Free

Electronic medical handover: towards safer medical care

Lean-Peng Cheah, Debbie H Amott, James Pollard and David A K Watters

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 369-372 Free

Position statement

The Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society consensus guidelines for the management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in relation to pregnancy

Aidan McElduff, N Wah Cheung, H David McIntyre, Janet A Lagström, Barry N J Walters, Jeremy J N Oats, Peter Wein, Glynis P Ross and David Simmons

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 373-377 Free

Viewpoint

Medical abortion for Australian women: it's time

Caroline M De Costa

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 378-380 Free

Obituary

Anthony J Proust MB BS, FRCPE, FRACP, FRCP

John Thompson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 382 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Sports Medicine

Sport and exercise medicine in Australia

John W Orchard and Peter D Brukner

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 383

1. The use of therapeutic medications for soft-tissue injuries in sports medicine

Justin A Paoloni and John W Orchard

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 384-388

Letters

Automated SMS notification to facilitate the retrieval of donated corneas

Peter M Herriot

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 391

Baby boomer doctors and nurses: demographic change and transitions to retirement

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 391

Constipation and toileting issues in children

Graham D Hocking

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 391-392

Constipation and toileting issues in children

Anthony G Catto-Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 391-392

Correction

The Messiha and Schiavo cases: third-party ethical and legal interventions in futile care disputes

Thomas A Faunce and Cameron Stewart

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 392

Book review

Psychotropics, A to Z

Gordon F S Johnson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7):

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 389