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Volume 188 Issue 1

7 January 2008

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 2 Free

Editorials

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): “missing the wood for the trees”

Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 3-4

Research

What’s hanging around your neck? Pathogenic bacteria on identity badges and lanyards

Despina Kotsanas, Carmel Scott, Elizabeth E Gillespie, Tony M Korman and Rhonda L Stuart

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 5-8 Free

Written advice can provide a safe and acceptable alternative to new patient assessment for selected referrals to haematologists

Peter S Ganly, Helen Keeman, Ruth L Spearing, Mark P Smith, Nigel Patton, Eileen G Merriman and Steve S Gibbons

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 9-12 Free

Pharmaceuticals and Prescribing

Do advertisements in clinical software influence prescribing?

Peter R Mansfield

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 13-14

The effect of advertising in clinical software on general practitioners’ prescribing behaviour

Joan Henderson, Graeme Miller, Ying Pan and Helena Britt

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 15-20 Free

Commercialism, choice and consumer protection: regulation of complementary medicines in Australia

Ken J Harvey, Viola S Korczak, Loretta J Marron and David B Newgreen

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 21-25

Paying for costly pharmaceuticals: regulation of new drugs in Australia, England and New Zealand

James P Raftery

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 26-28 Free

Health care

Does Enhanced Primary Care enhance primary care? Policy-induced dilemmas for allied health professionals

Michele M Foster, Geoffrey Mitchell, Terry Haines, Sean Tweedy, Petrea Cornwell and Jennifer Fleming

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 29-32 Free

National health reform needs strategic investment in health services research

Jane P Hall and Rosalie C Viney

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 33-35 Free

Public health

Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factors

Stephen J Begg, Theo Vos, Bridget Barker, Lucy Stanley and Alan D Lopez

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 36-40 Free

Chikungunya virus infection in travellers to Australia

Douglas F Johnson, Julian D Druce, Scott Chapman, Ashwin Swaminathan, Josh Wolf, Jack S Richards, Tony Korman, Chris Birch and Michael J Richards

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 41-43 Free

For debate

Should Australia lift its ban on low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products?

Coral E Gartner and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 44-46 Free

Repealing Australia’s ban on smokeless tobacco? Hasten slowly

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 47-49

Clinical update

The clinical utility of ultrasonography for rotator cuff disease, shoulder impingement syndrome and subacromial bursitis

Mark S Awerbuch

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 50-53 Free

Notable cases

γ-Hydroxybutyrate poisoning from toy beads

Naren Gunja, Evelyn Doyle , Kevin Carpenter, Olivia T Chan, Simon Gilmore, Gary Browne and Andis Graudins

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 54-55 Free

Nurofen Plus misuse: an emerging cause of perforated gastric ulcer

Martin J Dutch

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 56-57 Free

Letters

Toxic levels of mercury in Chinese infants eating fish congee

Stephen J Corbett and Christopher C S Poon

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 59-60

Prostate cancer screening and bacteraemia

Francis J Bowden, Jan Roberts and Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 60

Fatal community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia after influenza

Steven Y C Tong, Nicholas M Anstey, Gary D Lum, Rachael A Lilliebridge, Dianne P Stephens and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 61

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change

Keith V Woollard

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 61-64

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change

John K Ferguson and Helen Van Gessel

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 61-64

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change

Luke F Chen, Deverick J Anderson, Keith S Kaye and Daniel J Sexton

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 61-64

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change

Peter J Collignon, M Lindsay Grayson and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 61-64

Acupuncture for persistent allergic rhinitis: a randomised, sham-controlled trial

Edzard Ernst

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 64

Acupuncture for persistent allergic rhinitis: a randomised, sham-controlled trial

Charlie C L Xue and David F Story

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 64

Book reviews

Exposing Bundaberg’s Dr Death

David Molloy

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 25

Fighting for your health

Rob Roseby

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 57

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 58