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Volume 187 Issue 5

3 September 2007

From the editor’s desk

The people’s hospital

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 257 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 258 Free

Editorials

Lung transplantation: does age make a difference?

Gregory I Snell, Glen P Westall and Trevor J Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 260-261

Health technology assessment in Australia: challenges ahead

Terri J Jackson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 262-264

Research

Beliefs of young people and their parents about the harmfulness of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco for mental disorders

Dan I Lubman, Leanne Hides and Anthony F Jorm

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 266-269 Free

Live birth following day surgery reversal of female sterilisation in women older than 40 years: a realistic option in Australia?

Oswald M Petrucco, Sherman J Silber, Sarah L Chamberlain, Graham M Warnes and Michael Davies

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 271-273 Free

Outcomes after 10 years of a community-based flexible sigmoidoscopy screening program for colorectal carcinoma

Charlie H Viiala and John K Olynyk

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 274-277 Free

Obituary

David Lewis Jones MB BS, BSc, MAppStat

Menna Jones

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 277 Free

Health care

Successful lung transplantation for adolescents at a hospital for adults

Judith M Morton, Monique A Malouf, Marshall L Plit, Phillip M Spratt and Allan R Glanville

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 278-282 Free

Health technology assessment in England: assessment and appraisal

Tom Walley

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 283-285 Free

Health technology assessment in Canada: diversity and evolution

David M Hailey

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 286-288 Free

An evaluation of methods used in health technology assessments produced for the Medical Services Advisory Committee

Emily S Petherick, Elmer V Villanueva, Jo Dumville, Emma J Bryan and Shyamali Dharmage

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 289-292 Free

Position statement

Patient delay in responding to symptoms of possible heart attack: can we reduce time to care?

Judith C Finn, John H Nick Bett, Trevor R Shilton, Carol Cunningham and Peter L Thompson, on behalf of the National Heart Foundation of Australia Chest Pain Every Minute Counts Working Group

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 293-298 Free

Clinical update

Postural syncope: mechanisms and management

Gautam Vaddadi, Elisabeth Lambert, Susan J Corcoran and Murray D Esler

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 299-304 Free

Snapshot

Von Meyenberg complexes simulating diffuse liver metastasis in rectal carcinoma

Bassem M Chehab and Shaker R Dakhil

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 305 Free

Notable cases

Blood group incompatibility in kidney transplantation: definitely time to re-examine!

Shlomo J Cohney, Rowan G Walker, Michael N Haeusler, David M Francis and Chris J Hogan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 306-308 Free

Lessons from practice

Lymphogranuloma venereum: an emerging anorectal disease in Australia

Sebastiaan J van Hal, Richard Hillman, Damien J Stark, Jock L Harkness and Debbie Marriott

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 309-310 Free

Correction

Correction: In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 319

Letters

Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

Margaret A Allman-Farinelli, Lesley King and Adrian E Bauman

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 314-315

Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

Alison J Venn, Russell J Thomson, Michael D Schmidt, Verity J Cleland, Beverley A Curry, Hanni C Gennat and Terence Dwyer

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 314-315

A review of policies on alcohol use during pregnancy in Australia and other English-speaking countries, 2006

Ruth Morley, Jane L Halliday and Susan M Donath

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 315-316

A review of policies on alcohol use during pregnancy in Australia and other English-speaking countries, 2006

Sue Miers

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 315-316

A review of policies on alcohol use during pregnancy in Australia and other English-speaking countries, 2006

Colleen M O’Leary, Louise M Heuzenroeder, Elizabeth J Elliott and Carol I Bower

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 315-316

A case of Kawasaki disease mimicking acute appendicitis

Maria Cristina Maggio, Andrea Liotta, Salvino M Vitaliti and Giovanni Corsello

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 316-317

Late-term abortion: what can be learned from Royal Women’s Hospital v Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria?

Joanna M Flynn

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 317-318

Late-term abortion: what can be learned from Royal Women’s Hospital v Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria?

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 317-318

Medical professionalism: it is really under threat?

George Halasz

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 318

Medical professionalism: it is really under threat?

Kerry J Breen

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 318

Inequitable provision of optimal health services for patients with chronic heart failure: a national geo-mapping study

Elizabeth A Dodd

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 318-319

Inequitable provision of optimal health services for patients with chronic heart failure: a national geo-mapping study

Robyn A Clark, Andrea Driscoll, Justin Nottage, Skye McLennan, David M Coombe, Errol J Bamford, David Wilkinson and Simon Stewart

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 318-319

Compulsory helmets for school-age skiers and snowboarders

Graham M Slaney, Judith Finn, Angus Cook and Philip Weinstein

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 319-320

Probiotic treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci: a randomised controlled trial

H Reginald Magee

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 320

Book reviews

eMJA: Alcohol in pregnancy: how safe is it?

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eMJA: A little gem on examining patients

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eMJA: Publishing and reporting clinical trials

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Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

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