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Volume 185 Issue 7

2 October 2006

From the editor’s desk

Leadership and medical tribalism

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

Health and medical research funding: an investment in Australia’s future

Levon M Khachigian

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 348-349

Medical staff working the night shift: can naps help?

R Doug McEvoy and Leon L Lack

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 349-350

Vertebroplasty: a promising but as yet unproven intervention for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures

Rachelle Buchbinder and Richard H Osborne

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 351-352

Rotavirus vaccine — time to act

Graeme L Barnes and Ruth F Bishop

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 352-353

Research

Rotavirus gastroenteritis in the Northern Territory, 1995–2004

Rosalie Schultz

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 354-356 Free

A comparison of the mental health of refugees with temporary versus permanent protection visas

Shakeh Momartin, Zachary Steel, Marianio Coello, Jorge Aroche, Derrick M Silove and Robert Brooks

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 357-361 Free

Health care

Use of drug-eluting stents in Victorian public hospitals

Bryan P Yan, Andrew E Ajani, Stephen J Duffy, Gishel New, Mark Horrigan, Gregory Szto, Antony Walton, David Eccleston, Jeffery Lefkovits, Alexander Black, Martin Sebastian, Angela L Brennan, Christopher M Reid and David J Clark, on behalf of the Melbourne Interventional Group (MIG) investigators

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 363-367 Free

Review

Effectiveness of complementary and self-help treatments for depression in children and adolescents

Anthony F Jorm, Nicholas B Allen, Colin P O'Donnell, Ruth A Parslow, Rosemary Purcell and Amy J Morgan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 368-372 Free

Viewpoint

The "therapeutic footprint" of medical, complementary and alternative therapies and a doctor's duty of care

Christine R Sanderson, Bogda Koczwara and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 373-376 Free

Integrating complementary therapies into mainstream cancer care: which way forward?

Monica C Robotin and Andrew G Penman

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From bench to bedside

Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia: prospects of a tailored therapy?

Jürgen Götz, Lars M Ittner and Nicole Schonrock

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 381-384 Free

Notable cases

Accidental death from acute selenium poisoning

Katharine A See, Peter S Lavercombe, Jasmine Dillon and Riesa Ginsberg

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 388-389 Free

Personal perspective

Royal Darwin Hospital Emergency Department, Monday 14 October 2002: a medical student’s memoir

David E Chapman

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 390-391

MJA Practice Essentials — Allergy

4. Food allergy in childhood

Katrina J Allen, David J Hill and Ralf G Heine

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 394-400 Free

Eosinophilic oesophagitis

Alyson Kakakios and Ralf G Heine

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Letters

Decline in meningitis admissions in young children: vaccines make a difference

Hannah C Moore and Deborah Lehmann

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Increase in caesarean section rates among low-risk women in Queensland, 1990–2004

Trisha C Johnston and Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 404-405

Nephrotic-range proteinuria in the obese patient

Andy K H Lim

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Do advance care directives improve acute care services for older people?

Andrew W Holt and Alnis E Vedig

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Barriers to student access to patients in a group of teaching hospitals

Sarah J Abrahamson

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Birth centre trials are unreliable

Kathleen M Fahy and Sally Tracy

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Birth centre trials are unreliable

Andrew F Pesce

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Research is needed before GPs can engage in “positive” family planning

Angela M Cooney

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Corrections

2. Anaphylaxis: diagnosis and management

Simon G A Brown, Raymond J Mullins and Michael S Gold

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The burden of chronic kidney disease in Australian patients with type 2 diabetes (the NEFRON study)

Merlin C Thomas, Andrew J Weekes, Olivia J Broadley, Mark E Cooper and Tim H Mathew

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Potential for organ donation in Victoria: an audit of hospital deaths

Helen I Opdam and William Silvester

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Book reviews

An inside account of SARS

Peter A Cameron

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Making travel safe

Nicholas A Zwar

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Investing in sound mental health

Stephen J Duckett

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Mental health at work

Nicholas A Keks

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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