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Volume 185 Issue 11

4 December 2006

Journal activities

2006 — Thanking MJA reviewers

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 581-583

Editorial

The ghost of George Bernard Shaw and Australian doctors’ dilemmas

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 585-586

Refugee Health

Refugees in Australia: changing faces, changing needs

Mitchell M Smith

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 587-588

Camp to clinic: a refugee journey

Katherine Hale, Nicholas J Wood and Mohamud Sheikh-Mohammed

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 589-590

Community perceptions about infectious disease risk posed by new arrivals: a qualitative study

Julie Leask, Mohamud Sheikh-Mohammed, C Raina MacIntyre, Alexander Leask and Nicholas J Wood

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 591-593 Free

Barriers to access to health care for newly resettled sub-Saharan refugees in Australia

Mohamud Sheikh-Mohammed, C Raina MacIntyre, Nicholas J Wood, Julie Leask and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 594-597 Free

Outpatient treatment of malaria in recently arrived African migrants

Desmond T Chih, Christopher H Heath and Ronan J Murray

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 598-601 Free

Health issues in newly arrived African refugees attending general practice clinics in Melbourne

Albert C D Tiong, Mahomed S Patel, Joanne Gardiner, Rowena Ryan, Karen S Linton, Kate A Walker, John Scopel and Beverley-Ann Biggs

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 602-606 Free

Changing faces: a review of infectious disease screening of refugees by the Migrant Health Unit, Western Australia in 2003 and 2004

Jennifer A Martin and Donna B Mak

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 607-610 Free

Severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria in refugee children despite reported predeparture antimalarial treatment

Sarah Cherian, Joanna M Fagan, Aesen Thambiran, Janet Geddes and David Burgner

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 611

Research enterprise

Working to build a healthy Australia: a new era for the NHMRC

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 613-615 Free

Research misconduct: can Australia learn from the UK's stuttering system?

Harvey Marcovitch

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 616-618 Free

Australia needs an office of academic integrity

Bruce M Hall

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 619-622 Free

Implementing a research governance framework for clinical and public health research

Stephanie J Poustie, David McD Taylor, Andrew B Forbes, Marina A Skiba, Mark R Nelson and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 623-626 Free

Modern Lifestyle

Preventing traffic accidents by mobile phone users

Michael Regan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 628-629

Phone use and crashes while driving: a representative survey of drivers in two Australian states

Suzanne P McEvoy, Mark R Stevenson and Mark Woodward

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 630-634 Free

Assessing the wisdom of funding DrinkWise

Wayne D Hall and Robin Room

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 635-636

Estimating the cost of alcohol-related absenteeism in the Australian workforce: the importance of consumption patterns

Kenneth J Pidd, Jesia G Berry, Ann M Roche and James E Harrison

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 637-641 Free

Power of one

The adventures of an alienist

John H T Ellard

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 642-645

The challenge of public health in Australia and the region

Basil S Hetzel

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 646-650

Rural Health Care

Solving the shortage of general practitioners in remote and rural Australia: a Sisyphean task?

Max Kamien and W Ian Cameron

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 652-653

Rural and remote health in Australia: how to avert the deepening health care drought

Ann T Gregory, Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 654-660

Vegemite and chocolate sprinkles: Dutch medical students in rural Australia

Jochen Cals, Peter Joyner, Robert J Tuffley and Geert-Jan Dinant

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 661-663 Free

History

Is Sir Astley Cooper's 1823 advice to medical students still relevant?

William Coote

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 664-666 Free

The possible causes of the pandemic of peptic ulcer in the late 19th and early 20th century

John M Duggan and Anne E Duggan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 667-669 Free

The profession

The demise of professional courtesies: cui bono?

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 670-671

Clinical paradigms revisited

Kenneth Wong

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 671-672

Clinical paradigms revisited

Ami Schattner

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 671-672

The essence of the art of medicine

C Ross Philpot

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 672

The essence of the art of medicine

Norman Shum

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 672

Matters arising — Doctors behaving badly

Doctors behaving badly?

Hans Peter Dietz

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 673

Disclosure needs to include the extent of a relationship

Charles M Fisher

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 673

Drug company sponsored symposia fulfil an important educational role

Ian S Collins

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 673

Should doctors appear in advertisments?

Adrian M J Pokorny

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 673-674

Misleading title

Padraic J Grattan-Smith

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 674

Doctors behaving badly?

Martin H N Tattersall and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 674-675

It is public perception that counts

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 675

Christmas offerings

No laughing matter

Bernard R Beldholm and Alice U Lee

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 606

Patient journey?

Ailin Mohajeri

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 610

The Directors

Garry J Walter

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 634

Tidal volume

Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 636

A possible animal model of naturally occurring multinodular goitre in the Nilgiris of southern India

Biji T Kurien and Jobin T Kurien

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 677

Medicine along the Mekong

Melanie Cheng

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 678-679

Celebrity-based medicine

Edzard Ernst and Max H Pittler

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 680-681 Free

My first Australian

Thomas F Sandeman

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 682

A wing and a prayer

Anthony H Hodgkinson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 683

The hazards of watching football — are Australians at risk?

Adrian E Bauman, Hidde P van der Ploeg, Tien Chey and Gary Sholler

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 684-686 Free

Super vision

Henry Kan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 686

XmasTM (brand substitution not permitted)

Jonathan Bromley and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 687 Free

Letters

Methaemoglobinaemia — out of the wash comes a blue baby*

Ivan Cher

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 645

Quotable quotes

Supernovas of style

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 651

Snapshot

McCune–Albright syndrome

Mehdi Hamadani and Lubna Chaudhary

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 597 Free

MJA Christmas competition

A journey without end

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (11): 688