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Volume 186 Issue 1

1 January 2007

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 1 Free

Editorials

Lessons from the NHS National Programme for IT

Enrico W Coiera

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 3-4

Promoting community awareness of the link between illicit drugs and mental disorders

Anthony F Jorm and Dan I Lubman

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 5-6

Nutrition and Obesity

New Year’s resolution: let’s get rid of excessive food prices in remote Australia

Karen L Webb and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 7-8 Free

The increasing cost of the basic foods required to promote health in Queensland

Michelle S Harrison, Terry Coyne, Amanda J Lee, Dympna Leonard, Simone Lowson, Anita Groos and Bronwyn A Ashton

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 9-14 Free

Nutrition-related disorders in Indigenous Australians: how things have changed

Michael S Gracey

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 15-17 Free

Children's television sub-standards: a call for significant amendments

Bridget P Kelly and Josephine Y Chau

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 18

Traffic-light food labels

Trevor C Beard, Caryl A Nowson and Malcolm D Riley

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 19

Obesity, law and personal responsibility

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 20

Research

High risk-factor level and low risk-factor knowledge in patients not accessing cardiac rehabilitation after acute coronary syndrome

Julie Redfern, Elizabeth R Ellis, Tom Briffa and S Ben Freedman

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 21-25 Free

Workforce trends in specialist and GP obstetric practice in Victoria

Cameron S Loy, R Bruce Warton and James A Dunbar

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 26-30 Free

Ladders revisited

Biswadev Mitra, Peter A Cameron and Belinda J Gabbe

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 31-34 Free

For debate

National guidelines on alcohol use during pregnancy: a dissenting opinion

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 35-37 Free

Bites and stings

Animal and human bite injuries in Victoria, 1998–2004

Catherine E MacBean, David McD Taylor and Karen Ashby

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 38-40 Free

Spotted black snake (Pseudechis guttatus) envenoming

Melanie Jansen, Monique McLeod, Julian White and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 41-42

Treatment of jellyfish stings

John G Taylor

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 43

Notable cases

A “paneful” perforation

Sally A Johnston, David A Lisle and Roderick C Borrowdale

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 46 Free

Correction

Shrinking bottle syndrome

Sarah Newton, Hemant Jain, Joane Coleman and Srinivas Bolisetty

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 8

Letters

Gone fishing

Bernard S Pearn-Rowe

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 47

Gone fishing

Paul Nisselle

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 47

Snapshot

Superior mesenteric artery syndrome with hepatic portal venous gas

Chi-Lun Tsai, Ming-Jenn Chen, Che-Kim Tan, Khee-Siang Chan and Kuo-Chen Cheng

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 48 Free

Obituary

John William Dyer Middleton MB BS, FRANZCP

Geoffrey Sinclair

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 43 Free

Book reviews

Addressing domestic violence

Danielle Mazza

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Sound sleeping for infants

Harriet Hiscock

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Better sports nutrition

Bronwen Lundy

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Understanding female genital mutilation

Gregory J Jenkins

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1):