Volume 189, Issue 5 | The Medical Journal of Australia

From the editor’s desk

Medical religion in Britain

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 242 Free

Editorials

Monitoring vaccine safety: a critical component of every immunisation program

Julia M L Brotherton and Michael S Gold

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 243-244

Influence of television on demand for cosmetic surgery

Keith J Petrie, Kate E Faasse and Sarah A I Fuhrmann

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 244-245

Contemporary management of type 2 diabetes: blood glucose-lowering therapies and glycaemic targets

Timothy M E Davis

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 246-248

Research

Assessment of thyroid function during pregnancy: first-trimester (weeks 9–13) reference intervals derived from Western Australian women

Rhonda M Gilbert, Narelle C Hadlow, John P Walsh, Stephen J Fletcher, Suzanne J Brown, Bronwyn G Stuckey and Ee Mun Lim

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 250-253 Free

Socioeconomic status and rates of breastfeeding in Australia: evidence from three recent national health surveys

Lisa H Amir and Susan M Donath

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 254-256 Free

Health care

Standards for health care: a necessary but unknown quantity

Caroline A Brand, Joseph E Ibrahim, Peter A Cameron and Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 257-260 Free

Public health

Mass psychogenic response to human papillomavirus vaccination

Jim P Buttery, Simon Madin, Nigel W Crawford, Sonja Elia, Sophie La Vincente, Sarah Hanieh, Lindsay Smith and Bruce Bolam

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 261-262

Research enterprise

Are self-regulation and declaration of conflict of interest still the benchmark for relationships between physicians and industry?

Ian E Haines and Ian N Olver

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 263-266 Free

Health care reform

Investing in the future: prevention a priority at last

Brian F Oldenburg and Todd A Harper

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 267-268

Learning from past commissions

Stephen R Leeder and Milton J Lewis

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 268-269

Medical education

Does practice make perfect? The effect of coaching and retesting on selection tests used for admission to an Australian medical school

Barbara Griffin, David W Harding, Ian G Wilson and Neville D Yeomans

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 270-273 Free

Peer physical examination: time to revisit?

Suzanne Outram and Balakrishnan R Nair

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 274-276 Free

Clinical update

Chronic myeloid leukaemia: the evolution of gene-targeted therapy

David J L Joske

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 277-282 Free

New Drugs, Old Drugs

Migraine prophylaxis

Richard J Stark and Catherine D Stark

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 283-288 Free

Lessons from practice

Treatment of severe pemphigus foliaceus with rituximab

Suran L Fernando and Kate S O’Connor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 289-290 Free

Book reviews

Coroners’ inquiries

Roger W Byard

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 262

Our health care system, take three

Richard F Southby

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 266

What ails America

Melissa Sweet

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 273

Poem

Father’s Day

Richard A Bronson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 288

Obituary

Robert Henry Cutforth MB BS, LRCP, MRCS, MD, FRACP, FRCP

Peter M Brooks and Michael G Loughhead

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 290 Free

Letters

Inappropriate use of computed tomography chest scanning in hospital patients

Askin Gunes, Lloyd J Ridley and Graham Simpson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 292

Unexpected benefits of bethanechol in adults with cerebral palsy

Warwick J Carter

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 293

Desflurane-induced acute liver failure

Marcus W Chin, Dolores B Njoku, Gerard MacQuillan, Wendy S Cheng and Nickolas Kontorinis

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 293-294

Laparoscopic repair of gastric volvulus secondary to transverse colon diaphragmatic hernia

Kevin Ooi and Christophe Berney

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 294-295

Bicycle handlebar injuries in Western Australia: from imprints to abdominal wall hernias

Parshotam K Gera, Andrew P Barker, Ian Gollow, Jillian Orford, Sue Wicks and Liz Whan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 295

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

Alison Poulton and Ralph K H Nanan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 295-296