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Volume 184 Issue 1

2 January 2006

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 2 Free

Editorials

Improving the availability of artesunate for treatment of severe malaria

Nicholas M Anstey, Ric N Price and Nicholas J White

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 3-4

A new EPOC in Australian health research

Russell L Gruen, Heather Buchan, Jan Davies, Alain Mayhew and Jeremy M Grimshaw

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 4-5

Sun, Shadow and Skin Cancer

Non-melanoma skin cancer in Australia: the 2002 national survey and trends since 1985

Margaret P Staples, Mark Elwood, Robert C Burton, Jodie L Williams, Robin Marks and Graham G Giles

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 6-10 Free

Skin cancer medicine in primary care: towards an agenda for quality health outcomes

David Wilkinson, Scott Kitchener, Peter Bourne and Anthony Dixon

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 11-12 Free

Effective shade structures

David J Turnbull and Alfio V Parisi

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 13-15 Free

Crisis

Pandemics, antiviral stockpiles and biosecurity in Australia: what about the generic option?

Buddhima Lokuge, Peter Drahos and Warwick Neville

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 16-20 Free

Post-tsunami relief in a small village in rural India

Rohen White

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 21-22

Challenges of post-tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka: health care aid and the Health Alliance

Paul A Komesaroff and Suresh Sundram

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 23-26 Free

Complementary medicine

The continuing use of complementary and alternative medicine in South Australia: costs and beliefs in 2004

Alastair H MacLennan, Stephen P Myers and Anne W Taylor

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 27-31 Free

Research enterprise

Predicting commercial success for Australian medical inventions patented in the United States: a cross sectional survey of Australian inventors

Eugen Mattes, Michael C Stacey and Dora Marinova

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 33-38 Free

Obituary

Dr Wilfred Win Law OAM, DO, FACS, FRACO

Douglas J Coster

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 39 Free

Correction

Long-term trends in cancer mortality for Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory

John R Condon, Joan Cunningham, Tony Barnes and Bruce K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 39 Free

Matters arising

Chronic kidney disease and automatic reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate

Christopher M Florkowski, Wolf W Woltersdorf, Peter M George and Mohammed Saleem

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 41-43

Letters

Pethidine in emergency departments: promoting evidence-based prescribing

Biswadev Mitra and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 44-45

Pethidine in emergency departments: promoting evidence-based prescribing

Paul Pielage

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 44-45

Pethidine in emergency departments: promoting evidence-based prescribing

Karen I Kaye, Susan A Welch, Linda V Graudins, Andis Graudins, Tai Rotem, Sharon R Davis and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 44-45

Hospitalisation and costs attributable to tobacco smoking in Australia: 2001–2002

Susan F Hurley

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 45

Severe renal failure and nephrocalcinosis in anorexia nervosa

Huy A Tran

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 46

Severe renal failure and nephrocalcinosis in anorexia nervosa

Matthew A Roberts, Campbell R Thorpe, Duncan P MacGregor, Nick Paoletti and Francesco L Ierino

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 46

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

Alan Rodger

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 46-47

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

Glen Pater

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 46-47

Vitamin D and chronic mental illness

Duncan A Howard, Sue D Waygood and Sharon L Desmond

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 47

Email “icon-ography” for health professionals

Biji T Kurien

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 48

Book review

Australia's own diving medicine bible

Glen Hawkins

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 32

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 40