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Volume 184 Issue 3

6 February 2006

From the editor’s desk

Health bureaucracy promises

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 97 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 98 Free

Editorials

Debating health workforce innovation

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 100-101

Acute pain management: the evidence grows

Pamela E Macintyre, Stephan A Schug and David A Scott

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 101-102

Australia’s role in promoting achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

Anthony B Zwi and Natalie J Grove

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 103-104

Conference report

Health Workforce Innovation Conference

Peter M Brooks and Niki Ellis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 105-106

Research

Zinc and vitamin A supplementation in Indigenous Australian children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infection: a randomised controlled trial

Anne B Chang, Paul J Torzillo, Peter M Stewart, Naomi C Boyce, Andrew V White, Gavin R Wheaton, David M Purdie, John Wakerman and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 107-112 Free

Clinical outcomes after acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a 2-year non-randomised trial comparing percutaneous vertebroplasty with conservative therapy

Terrence H Diamond, Carl Bryant, Lois Browne and William A Clark

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 113-117 Free

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland, 1999–2004

Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys and Denise M Murphy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 118-121 Free

Clinical update

Early combination disease modifying antirheumatic drug treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

Lynden J Roberts, Leslie G Cleland, Susanna M Proudman and Ranjeny Thomas

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 122-125 Free

Occupational health and safety

The Inquiry into the Waterfall train crash: implications for medical examinations of safety-critical workers

Bruce Hocking

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 126-128 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Unilateral limb hypertrophy and shoulder weakness in a 37-year-old woman

Partha P Chakraborty, Dipanjan Bandyopadhyay, Sanjay K Mandal, Subhasis Roy Chowdhury, Ramtanu Banerjee, Shounak Majumdar and Rana Bhattacharji

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 130-131

MJA Practice Essentials — Sports Medicine

4. The use and misuse of performance-enhancing substances in sport

John W Orchard, Deborah J Healey, Peter A Fricker, Louise M Burke and Susan L White

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 132-136 Free

Correction

Doggonit, it’s Christmas

Mervyn D Cobcroft and Charles Pembroke-Corgi

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 136

Snapshot

A tender lump in the neck

Sashidhar Yeluri, Jayshree P Mehta, Siddharth Karanth and Guneesh Dadayal

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 137 Free

Letters

Mifepristone (RU-486) and limits to abortion

David van Gend

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 139

“GP Psych Opinion”: evaluation of a psychiatric consultation service

Philip L P Morris

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 139

Clinicians prescribing exercise: is air pollution a hazard?

Dorothy L Robinson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 140

The price of health care for Medicare-ineligible asylum seekers in the community

Katina Kardamanidis and Bruce Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 140-141

Hospital in the home: what next?

Stephen F Wilson and Nicholas Collins

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 141-142

Safety of hospital in the home

Allen C Cheng, Andrew J Hughes, Julian B Stella and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 142-144

Safety of hospital in the home

Les J Toop, Michael J Epton, Graham R B McGeoch, G Ian Town, Simon M H Wynn-Thomas, Robin D Dawson, Michael C Hlavac, Anja M Werno and Paul D Abernethy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 142-144

Safety of hospital in the home

Bin Soo Ong, Margaret A Karr, Daniel K Y Chan, Anthony Frankel and Qing Shen

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 142-144

Digesting the health sandwich

Stephen F Wilson and Peter McGeorge

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 144

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 138