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Volume 189 Issue 6

15 September 2008

From the editor’s desk

Substitution spiel

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 298 Free

AMPCo House

A new house for a grand old dame

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 299

Editorials

Population genetic screening for hereditary haemochromatosis: are we a step closer?

Katrina J Allen

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 300-301

Antibiotic prophylaxis against infective endocarditis: time to rethink

Robert F W Moulds and Melanie S Jeyasingham

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 301-302

After ENHANCE: the cholesterol hypothesis is alive and well

Ian R Hamilton-Craig

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 303-304

Research

A 5- versus 3-day course of oral corticosteroids for children with asthma exacerbations who are not hospitalised: a randomised controlled trial

Anne B Chang, Ronald Clark, Theo P Sloots, David G Stone, Helen L Petsky, Donna Thearle, Anita A Champion, Coralie Wheeler and Jason P Acworth

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 306-310 Free

Knowledge and attitudes of men about prostate cancer

Diane E Arnold-Reed, Dana A Hince, Max K Bulsara, Hanh Ngo, Michael Eaton, Alan R Wright, Frank R Jones, Walter Kaczmarczyk, Andreas G Marangou and Thomas D Brett

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 312-314 Free

Prostate cancer and prostate-specific antigen testing in New South Wales

David P Smith, Rajah Supramaniam, Villis R Marshall and Bruce K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 315-318 Free

How do the Australian guidelines for lipid-lowering drugs perform in practice? Cardiovascular disease risk in the AusDiab Study, 1999–2000

Lei Chen, Sophie L Rogers, Stephen Colagiuri, Dominique A Cadilhac, Timothy H Mathew, Andrew N Boyden, Anna Peeters, Dianna J Magliano, Jonathan E Shaw, Paul Z Zimmet and Andrew M Tonkin

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 319-322 Free

Medicine and the community

Staphylococcal pyomyositis in a temperate region: epidemiology and modern management

Andrew A Block, Catherine Marshall, Alison Ratcliffe and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 323-325 Free

For debate

High levels of confusion for cholesterol awareness campaigns

Danika V Hall, Megan D Cobcroft and John W Ketelbey

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 326-328 Free

Health care reform

The viability of Australia’s teaching hospitals

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 330-331

Rediscovering university teaching hospitals for Australia

David G Penington

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 332-335 Free

Lessons from practice

Coeliac disease in an Indian patient: an important diagnosis to consider

Paul Lee and Katherine Samaras

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 336-337 Free

Snapshot

Lead poisoning and Burton’s line

Jayne E Camuglia, George Grigoriadis and Christopher P Gilfillan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 339 Free

Viewpoint

Functional improvement of the Australian health care system — can rehabilitation assist?

Peter W New and Christopher J Poulos

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 340-343 Free

Letters

Is Australia headed for an epidemic of nicotine replacement therapy addicts?

Christine L Paul, Flora Tzelepis, Raoul A Walsh and Billie Bonevski

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 346

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

Louise Rice, Marie-Louise Stokes, Mark A Brown, Kirsten A Campbell and Cassandra Smith

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 346-347

The prevention and management of herpes zoster

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 347

Consent in paediatric research: an evaluation of the guidance provided in the 2007 NHMRC National statement on ethical conduct in human research

Adam Jaffe, Roxanne E Strachan and Katrina J Williams

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 347-348

Anorexia nervosa and senna misuse: nephrocalcinosis, digital clubbing and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy

Andrew F McLaughlin

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 348

What has happened to clinical leadership in futile care discussions?

Thomas R Solano and James D Fratzia

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 348-349

What has happened to clinical leadership in futile care discussions?

Peter M Brooks

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 348-349

What has happened to clinical leadership in futile care discussions?

Mathew Piercy and Graeme Duke

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 348-349

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

Diego De Leo and Jacinta L Hawgood

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 349-350

Management of adrenal insufficiency during the stress of medical illness and surgery

Ian J Woodforth

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 350-351

Management of adrenal insufficiency during the stress of medical illness and surgery

Ann M Maguire, Maria E Craig and Christopher T Cowell

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 350-351

Management of adrenal insufficiency during the stress of medical illness and surgery

James A Mitchell

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 350-351

Management of adrenal insufficiency during the stress of medical illness and surgery

Caroline Jung and Warrick J Inder

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 350-351

Premature ejaculation: a clinical update

Paul T Dignam

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 351-352

Premature ejaculation: a clinical update

Neil R Palmer and Bronwyn G A Stuckey

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 351-352

Book reviews

The other Gray’s anatomist

James M Cummins

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 329

Women’s health case by case

Danielle Mazza

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 335

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 344