Volume 187, Issue 11 | The Medical Journal of Australia

Journal activities

MJA 2007: gaining momentum

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 604-606

Editorials

It’s time for change and resolve

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 607-608

The first 100 days: an open letter to the new Minister for Health

Lesley Russell, Stephen R Leeder, Bruce K Armstrong, James A Gillespie and George L Rubin

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 608-609

Conference report

4th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention

Lisa Maher, Gilda Tachedjian, Jennifer F Hoy, Iona Millwood, Rebecca J Guy, Nick M Walsh, John J Zaunders, Anthony Jaworowski and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 610-612

Northern Territory Intervention

The Northern Territory Emergency Response: a chance to heal Australia’s worst sore

William J H Glasson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 614-616 Free

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory: engaging with the intervention to improve primary health care

John D Boffa, Andrew I Bell, Tanya E Davies, John Paterson and David E Cooper

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 617-618 Free

Protecting little children’s health — or not?

Peter W Tait

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 619-620 Free

In the name of the children

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 620 Free

The Northern Territory intervention: voices from the centre of the fringe

Alex Brown and Ngiare J Brown

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 621-623 Free

Shamed by the lack of a meaningful dialogue

Nicole Watson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 623 Free

Emergency medicine

Emergency department overcrowding: dying to get in?

George Braitberg

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 624-625

Characteristics and outcomes of patients who “did not wait” after attending Perth public hospital emergency departments, 2000–2003

Jacqui Hall and George A Jelinek

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 626-629 Free

Deck the halls with rows of trolleys . . . emergency departments are busiest over the Christmas holiday period

Wei Zheng, David J Muscatello and Adam C Chan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 630-633 Free

Inside the emergency department

Clare A Skinner

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 634-635 Free

Cardiac arrest and chewing gum — an unfortunate combination

Angus G Thompson, Shakeeb Razak and Rohan Jayasinghe

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 635

Health care down the drain

Andrew A Mahony and Stephen F Wilson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 636

Research enterprise

Sharing the secrets of success: conversations with the Medical Journal of Australia / Wyeth Research Award winners, 1995–2006

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

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 637-644 Free

The forgotten successes and sacrifices of Charles Kellaway, director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1923–1944

Peter G Hobbins and Kenneth D Winkel

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 645-648 Free

The World Today

The Oxford Health Alliance: a risky business?

Ruth Colagiuri, Stig Pramming and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 652-653

What are governments for?

Martin McKee and Ruth Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 654-655

Is caffeine in soft drinks really necessary?

Lynn Riddell and Russell S Keast

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 655

Can food and beverage companies help improve population health? Some insights from PepsiCo

Derek Yach, Antonio Lucio and Carlos Barroso

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 656-657

The way we live in our cities

Anthony G Capon

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 658-661 Free

Morbidity and mortality during heatwaves in metropolitan Adelaide

Monika Nitschke, Graeme R Tucker and Peng Bi

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 662-665 Free

Arthroplasty tourism

Ian K Cheung and Anthony Wilson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 666-667 Free

Personal carbon trading: a potential “stealth intervention” for obesity reduction?

Barry N J Walters and Garry Egger

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 668

Ingredient and nutrition information labelling of alcoholic beverages: do consumers want it?

Kypros Kypri, Alexandra McManus, Peter M Howat, Bruce R Maycock, Jonathan D Hallett and Tanya N Chikritzhs

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 669

Crisis

Mitigating the health impacts of a natural disaster — the June 2007 long-weekend storm in the Hunter region of New South Wales

Michelle A Cretikos, Tony D Merritt, Kelly Main, Keith Eastwood, Linda Winn, Lucille Moran and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 670-673 Free

A food “lifeboat”: food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic or other catastrophe

Anna Haug, Jennie C Brand-Miller, Olav A Christophersen, Jennifer McArthur, Flavia Fayet and Stewart Truswell

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 674-676

Hospital pandemic preparedness: health care workers’ opinions on working during a pandemic

Rhonda L Stuart and Elizabeth E Gillespie

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 676

Power of one

The deaf and doctors: a shepherd’s two flocks

Bruce D Shepherd

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 678-680

Reaching out with a hand of help

Phoebe C M Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 681-683

Medical education

Education programs at the new Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University

Rufus Clarke and Michael K Morgan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 685-687 Free

Medical specialist education and training in Australia

Peter D Phelan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 687-688

Patient privacy and Latin

Keith S Jones

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 688

Patient privacy and Latin

Max Kamien

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 688

History

Snow — at Christmas

Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 690-692

An outbreak of illness in poultry and humans in 16th century Indonesia

Sanjaya N Senanayake and Brett C Baker

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 693-695

Christmas offerings

The colonoscope strikes back: a diverticular Darth Vader

Anthony F T Brown and Andrew Bryant

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 629

“Australian” lymphoma

Colin K F Tan and Tim Y Demetriades

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 644

A beginner’s guide to criticism

Edzard Ernst

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 649

On the breeding of coauthors: just call me Al

Gordon B Parker

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 650-651

Memoria manuum — handprints

Donald D’Arcy Webling

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 651

Clinical examination is still good: suck it and see

Celia M Zubrinich, Christine F McDonald, Simon R Knight and Fergal J O’Donoghue

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 692

Recently in the emergency department: chest x-ray of a repeatedly resuscitated object

Wolfgang Lederer, Martin Breiteneder, Michael Rieger and Christoph J Schlimp

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 695

Doctors in satirical prints and cartoons

H Reginald Magee

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 696-700

We three kings and Christmas trees: pharmacotherapy from presents and diseases from decorations

Stuart M Smith and B James McCallum

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 701-702

Teaching Tamil Tigers

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 703-705

The fight for a life-saving drug: a personal perspective

Mary Lander

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 706-708

From the diary of a novice physician

David Isaacs, Stephen Isaacs and Dominic A Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 710-711

Peer review: where science meets the arts of war, politics and ancient history

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 684

2007 MJA Christmas Competition

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 689

A starry sky in the brain

Vinay Kapur, Jeet Ram Kashyap, Ravinder Kaur and Atul Sachdev

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 709

Paintings through the medical lens

James A Best