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Volume 188 Issue 3

4 February 2008

From the editor’s desk

Preoccupation with doctors

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 129 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 130 Free

Editorials

Tuberculosis: the dis-ease that didn’t dis-appear

Ivan Bastian and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 131-132

In the long run, skills are as good as pills for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Joseph M Rey

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 133-134

Research

Clinical outcomes of Queensland children with cystic fibrosis: a comparison between tertiary centre and outreach services

Clare L Thomas, Peter K O’Rourke and Claire E Wainwright

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 135-139 Free

Risk of suicide in cancer patients in Western Australia, 1981–2002

Nigel R C Dormer, Kieran A McCaul and Linda J Kristjanson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 140-143 Free

Public health

Tuberculosis in illegal foreign fishermen: whose public health are we protecting?

Natalie J Gray, Meredith Hansen-Knarhoi and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 144-147 Free

Evidence of primary transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea

Christopher M Gilpin, Graham Simpson, Stephen Vincent, Terry P O’Brien, Trevor A Knight, Maria Globan, Christopher Coulter and Anastasios Konstantinos

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 148-152 Free

Recurrence of tuberculosis at a Sydney chest clinic between 1994 and 2006: reactivation or reinfection?

Claudia C Dobler, Guy B Marks, Sheila E Simpson and A B Hamish Crawford

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 153-155 Free

Methaemoglobinaemia following ingestion of a commonly available food additive

Peter Maric, Sayed S Ali, Leon G Heron, David Rosenfeld and Matthew Greenwood

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 156-158

Snapshot

Cryoglobulins

Herman H Lee and Chi-hung Hui

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 158 Free

Health care

Defining remote medical practice

Janie D Smith, Stephen A Margolis, Jeff Ayton, Victoria Ross, Elizabeth Chalmers, Patrick Giddings, Louise Baker, Martin Kelly and Catherine Love

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 159-161 Free

Viewpoint

To routinely offer testing for HIV infection in all cases of tuberculosis: a rational clinical approach?

Carol R Emerson and Jeffrey J Post

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 162-163 Free

Lessons from practice

Joined at the hip: rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis

David Massasso, Kevin Lee, Praneal Sharma and Fredrick Joshua

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 164-165 Free

Granulomatous hepatitis: tuberculosis or not?

Eu Jin Lim, Paul D R Johnson, Peter Crowley and Paul J Gow

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 166-167 Free

Clinical update

Tumour necrosis factor α inhibitors: screening for tuberculosis infection in inflammatory bowel disease

Arun Gupta, Alan C Street and Finlay A Macrae

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 168-170 Free

The prevention and management of herpes zoster

Anthony L Cunningham, Judith Breuer, Dominic E Dwyer, David W Gronow, Robert D Helme, John C Litt, Myron J Levin and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 171-176 Free

Medical education

Vocational career paths of graduate entry medical students at Flinders University: a comparison of rural, remote and tertiary tracks

Paul Worley, Anne Martin, David Prideaux, Richard Woodman, Elizabeth Worley and Michael Lowe

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 177-178 Free

Medical schools can cooperate: a new joint venture to provide medical education in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales

Sue L Page, Hudson H Birden, J Nicky Hudson, Jill E Thistlethwaite, Chris Roberts, Ian Wilson, John Bushnell, John Hogg, S Ben Freedman and Neville Yeomans

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 179-181 Free

For debate

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Francis J Bowden and Katherine Fethers

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 182-184 Free

Organ donation after cardiac death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions

Mohamed Y Rady, Joseph L Verheijde and Joan L McGregor

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 186

Organ donation after cardiac death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions

James Tibballs

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 186-187

Organ donation after cardiac death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions

Judith R Kennedy

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 187-188

Organ donation after cardiac death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions

Wendy A Rogers and Bernadette J Richards

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 188

Letters

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

David N Durrheim, Mark Wenitong, Clare Huppatz and George Rubin

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 189 Free

Will Australian rural clinical schools be an effective workforce strategy? Early indications of their positive effect on intern choice and rural career interest

Denese E Playford, Harriet Denz-Penhey, Lesley Skinner and J Campbell Murdoch

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 190

Tuberculosis in children: a tertiary centre perspective

Paul D Robinson, Dianne Dalton, Terri Cripps, Nicholas J Wood, Alison M Kesson and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 190-191

It’s not a tsunami — sea-levels are on the rise

Andrew W Perry

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 191-192 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 185