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Volume 186 Issue 11

4 June 2007

From the editor’s desk

An edict from the Motherland

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 553 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 554 Free

Editorials

Challenges in cancer control in Australia

Ian N Olver

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 556-557

Rheumatic fever and social justice

Alex Brown, Malcolm I McDonald and Tom Calma

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 557-558 Free

Research

Experience with cardiac valve operations in Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Anna McLean, Michael Waters, Emma Spencer and Clive Hadfield

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 560-563 Free

The epidemiology of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Victoria, Australia

Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Loraine Kelpie, Ross M Andrews, Nigel Curtis, Terence M Nolan, Gowri Selvaraj, Jonathan W Passmore, Frances Oppedisano, John A Carnie and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 565-569 Free

Job satisfaction of staff and the team environment in Australian general practice

Mark F Harris, Judy G Proudfoot, Upali W Jayasinghe, Christine H Holton, Gawaine P Powell Davies, Cheryl L Amoroso, Tanya K Bubner and Justin J Beilby

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 570-573 Free

A case for universal salt iodisation to correct iodine deficiency in pregnancy: another salutary lesson from Tasmania

John R Burgess, Judy A Seal, Georgina M Stilwell, Peter J Reynolds, E Roscoe Taylor and Venkat Parameswaran

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 574-576 Free

Hospital utilisation among people born in refugee-source countries: an analysis of hospital admissions, Victoria, 1998–2004

Ignacio Correa-Velez, Vijaya Sundararajan, Kaye Brown and Sandra M Gifford

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 577-580 Free

Position statement

An Australian guideline for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: an abridged outline

Jonathan R Carapetis, Alex Brown, Nigel J Wilson and Keith N Edwards

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 581-586 Free

Medicine and the community

New money for mental health: will it make things better for rural and remote Australia?

James A Dunbar, Ian B Hickie, John Wakerman and Prasuna Reddy

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 587-589 Free

The role of family and maternal factors in childhood obesity

Lisa Y Gibson, Susan M Byrne, Elizabeth A Davis, Eve Blair, Peter Jacoby and Stephen R Zubrick

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 591-595 Free

The profession

Medical professionalism: is it really under threat?

Kerry J Breen

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 596-598 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Brucellosis mimicking Henoch–Schönlein purpura

David Massasso and Kathryn Gibson

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 602-603

Letters

Finger fracture mitral valvuloplasty: a tribute to the pioneers of cardiac surgery

John S Murala, Hugh D Wolfenden, George S Youssef and Daniel Friedman

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 605

Ototoxic ear drops with grommet and tympanic membrane perforations: a position statement

Robert J Black, Vince C Cousins, Peter Chapman, Zoran Becvarovski, Harvey L C Coates, Stephen J O’Leary, Christopher F Perry and Brian J Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 605-606

Lessons from the NHS National Programme for IT

Siaw-Teng Liaw and Douglas I R Boyle

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 607

Should clinical software be regulated?

Ian D Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 607-608

Should clinical software be regulated?

Enrico W Coiera

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 607-608

Obituaries

Victor Wynn MD, FRCP, FRCPath

John R Rigg

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 573 Free

John William Ruhno MB BS, FRACP

Janet Rimmer

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 598 Free

Correction

Medicines and breastfeeding: information is available on safe use

Lisa H Amir

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 606

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 604