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Volume 185 Issue 6

18 September 2006

From the editor’s desk

Tilting at titles

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 297 Free

Editorials

Doctors behaving badly?

Martin H N Tattersall and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 299-300

Clinical guidelines: what can we do to increase their use?

Richard Grol and Heather Buchan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 301-302

Prisons: mental health institutions of the 21st century?

Paul White and Harvey Whiteford

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 302-303

Suicide in Australia: some good news

Robert D Goldney

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 304

Research

Diabetes guidelines: easier to preach than to practise?

Wendy Bryant,*, Jerry R Greenfield,*, Donald J Chisholm and Lesley V Campbell

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 305-309 Free

Implementing iron management clinical practice guidelines in patients with chronic kidney disease having dialysis

Michelle J Irving, Jonathan C Craig, Martin Gallagher, Stephen McDonald, Kevan R Polkinghorne, Rowan G Walker and Simon D Roger

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 310-314 Free

Suicide in the Northern Territory, 1981–2002

Mary-Anne L Measey, Shu Qin Li, Robert Parker and Zhiqiang Wang

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 315-319 Free

For debate

Potential impact of AUSFTA on Australia’s blood supply

Hilary J Bambrick, Thomas A Faunce and Kellie Johnston

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 320-323 Free

Should medical students be routinely offered BCG vaccination?

Maryza Graham, Tanya M Howley, Robert J Pierce and Paul D Johnson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 324-326 Free

Viewpoint

Inhalant misuse in youth: time for a coordinated response

Dan I Lubman, Leanne Hides and Murat Yücel

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 327-330 Free

Lessons from practice

Scurvy in an otherwise well young man

Sally J Mapp and Paul B Coughlin

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 331-332 Free

Snapshot

Infected atrial myxoma

Ahmed Awab, Mehdi Hamadani, Bhanu Sud and Gene W Voskuhl

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 332 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Allergy

3. Drug hypersensitivity

Francis C K Thien

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 333-338 Free

Latex allergy

Constance H Katelaris

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Letters

Early medical abortion in Australia: more common than statistics suggest?

Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 341

A champion-driven pathway towards quality improvement in the medical management of osteoporotic fractures

Tim Yu-Ting Lu, Jennifer A Pink, Lauren E Whitten, Catherine L Hill, Robert J Adams and Catherine Gibb

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 341-342

Clinical trials of unapproved medicines in Australia

Jonathon Rankin, Jenny Mason, Neil Kottege and Natasha Y Andersson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 342-343

The repeating history of objections to the fortification of bread and alcohol: from iron filings to folic acid

Hasantha Gunasekera

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 343-344

Weight management in general practice: what do patients want?

Claire Hewat

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Book reviews

Stem cells: the story behind the headlines

Edward Byrne

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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