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Volume 187 Issue 9

5 November 2007

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

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Federal Election 2007

Health and the federal election, 2007

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 484

Challenges in health and health care for Australia

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

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 485-489 Free

Good health systems, getting better

Tony Abbott

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 490-492

Taking leadership — tackling Australia’s health challenges

Nicola Roxon

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 493-495

A mandate to strengthen the health system

Rosanna Capolingua

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 497-499

Editorials

The media and prostate cancer screening

Suzanne K Steginga and Robert (aka Frank) A Gardiner

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 501-502

The modern cigarette, an unregulated disaster

Nigel J Gray

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 502-503

Australia needs an expanded immunisation register for further improvements in vaccine delivery and program evaluation

Susan A Skull and Terence M Nolan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 504-505

Australia urgently needs a federal government body dedicated to monitoring and preventing sports injuries

John W Orchard, Stephen R Leeder, Gary E Moorhead, Jessica J Coates and Peter D Brukner

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 505-506

Research

“The news is [not] all good”: misrepresentations and inaccuracies in Australian news media reports on prostate cancer screening

Ross MacKenzie, Simon Chapman, Alexandra Barratt and Simon Holding

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 507-510 Free

The management of primary cutaneous melanoma in Victoria in 1996 and 2000

John W Kelly, Michael A Henderson, Vicky J Thursfield, John Slavin, Jill Ainslie and Graham G Giles

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 511-514 Free

Trends in hospitalisation rates for road traffic injuries in child motor vehicle passengers in New South Wales, July 1998 – June 2005

Wei Du, Caroline F Finch, Andrew Hayen and Julie Hatfield

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 515-518 Free

Viewpoint

Barrett’s oesophagus and columnar metaplasia: saying what we mean

Norman J Carr

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 519-521

Pituitary masses: the importance of a multidisciplinary approach

Warrick J Inder and Frank P Alford

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 522-523

Notable cases

Autoimmune hepatitis following infliximab therapy for ankylosing spondylitis

Gerard Ozorio, Bruce McGarity, Haesung Bak, Andrew S Jordan, Henry Lau and Cathy Marshall

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 524-526 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Hypernatraemia and rhabdomyolysis

Jason P Denman

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 527-528

Poverty and Human Development

Rising poverty is bad for our health

Peter Saunders and Peter Davidson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 530-531

The need for leadership in global health

Stephen R Leeder, Susan U Raymond and Henry M Greenberg

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 532-535 Free

Medical students, medical schools and international health

Gregory J Fox, James E Thompson, Victor C Bourke and Gregory Moloney

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 536-539 Free

Letters

EpiPen use in children with food allergies

Clare W Allen, Dianne E Campbell and Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 542

Is “nut-free” sunflower seed butter safe for children with peanut allergy?

Denise C Hsu and Constance H Katelaris

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 542-543

Antenatal care implications of population-based trends in Down syndrome birth rates

Kevin B Orr

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 543-544

Antenatal care implications of population-based trends in Down syndrome birth rates

Mary C Joseph

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 543-544

Antenatal care implications of population-based trends in Down syndrome birth rates

Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 543-544

Book review

eMJA: Global health and human rights — a call to action

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Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

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