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Volume 188 Issue 8

21 April 2008

From the editor’s desk

Time for another medical revolution

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 433 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 434 Free

Editorials

An end to suppressing public health information

C D’Arcy J Holman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 435-436

Another inquiry into public hospitals?

Joanne F Travaglia, Jane E Lloyd and Jeffrey Braithwaite

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 437-438

Ensuring the safety of new medications and devices: are naltrexone implants safe?

Alex D Wodak, Robert Ali, David Henry and Lloyd Sansom

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 438-439

Research

Unplanned admissions to two Sydney public hospitals after naltrexone implants

Nicholas Lintzeris, Soung Lee, Lucinda Scopelliti, James Mabbutt and Paul S Haber

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 441-444 Free

Metformin and lactic acidosis in an Australian community setting: the Fremantle Diabetes Study

Niklaus Kamber, Wendy A Davis, David G Bruce and Timothy M E Davis

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 446-449 Free

Impact of specialty on attitudes of Australian medical practitioners to end-of-life decisions

Malcolm H Parker, Colleen M Cartwright and Gail M Williams

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 450-456 Free

Concordance between real-time telemedicine assessments and face-to-face consultations in paediatric otolaryngology

Anthony C Smith, Samuel Dowthwaite, Julie Agnew and Richard Wootton

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 457-460 Free

Medical education

Changes to the University of Sydney medical curriculum

Kerry J Goulston and R Kim Oates

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 461-463 Free

Consensus statement

Nationally consistent assessment of international medical graduates

Rick McLean and Jan Bennett, on behalf of the Implementation and Technical Committees, under the auspices of the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 464-468 Free

Viewpoint

The Royal North Shore Hospital inquiry: an analysis of the recommendations and the implications for quality and safety in Australian public hospitals

Anthony P Joseph and Stephen N Hunyor

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 469-472 Free

Bites and stings — Research

Current use of Australian snake antivenoms and frequency of immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions and anaphylaxis

Geoffrey K Isbister, Simon G Brown, Ellen MacDonald, Julian White and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 473-476 Free

For debate

The way we treat each other

Rob Moodie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 477-480 Free

Public health

Bystander basic life support: an important link in the chain of survival for children suffering a drowning or near-drowning episode

Jeanette Marchant, Nicholas G Cheng, Lawrence T Lam, Fiona E Fahy, S V Soundappan, Danny T Cass and Gary J Browne

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 484-485

Matters arising — Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 488-490

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

James C Hurley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 488

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Gino J Toncich

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 489

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 489

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Julia J Batmanian, Meeyin Lam, Caitlin Matthews, Andrew Finckh, Martin Duffy, Robert Wright, Bruce J Brew and Romesh Markus

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 489-490

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Stephen M Davis, Peter J Hand and Geoffrey A Donnan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 490

Letters

Early intervention in youth mental health

David A Sholl

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 492-493

Early intervention in youth mental health

Patrick D McGorry, Ian B Hickie, Anthony F Jorm and Rosemary Purcell

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 492-493

Why are community psychiatric services in Australia doing it so hard?

James D Hundertmark

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 493

Sternal fracture in an Australian Rules footballer

Robert J Douglas

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 493-494

Intervening early to reduce developmentally harmful substance use among youth populations

Vania Modesto-Lowe, Nancy M Petry and Melissa McCartney

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 494-495

Health technology assessment in Australia

Brendon J Kearney and Stephen L Blamey

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 495

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

Andrew A Thomson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 495-496

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

Norman J Carr

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 495-496

Supplement

Evidence into policy in Australian primary health care

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): Open Access

Snapshot

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Edward Hoey, Guneesh Dadayal, Sashidhar Yeluri, Neetu Kumar and Kshitij Mankad

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 486 Free

Obituary

Thomas Stapleton DCH, MA, DM, MD(Hon), FRCP(Lond), FRACP, FRCPCH

Michael S Gracey

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 463 Free

Book reviews

Advanced cancer care

Raymond M Lowenthal

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 468

Palliative care stateside

Paul A Glare

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 482

Transgender support

William A W Walters

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 482

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 487