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Volume 190 Issue 2

19 January 2009

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 50 Free

Editorial

In the wake of the Garling inquiry into New South Wales public hospitals: a change of cultures?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 51-52

Postcard from New York

Women’s health in the United States

Jeffrey D Zajac

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 53

Research

The medical and retrieval costs of road crashes in rural and remote northern Queensland, 2004–2007: findings from the Rural and Remote Road Safety Study

Teresa M O’Connor, Heather A Hanks, Mark S Elcock, Richard C Turner and Craig Veitch

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 54-56 Free

Going down a different road: first support and information needs of families with a baby with Down syndrome

Evelyne E Muggli, Veronica R Collins and Catherine Marraffa

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 58-61 Free

Health care

Patients with skin disease and their relationships with their doctors: a qualitative study of patients with acne, psoriasis and eczema

Parker J Magin, Jon Adams, Gaynor S Heading and C Dimity Pond

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 62-64 Free

Patients expect transparency in doctors’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry

Martin H N Tattersall, Aneta Dimoska and Kevin Gan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 65-68 Free

Considering abortion: a 12-month audit of records of women contacting a Pregnancy Advisory Service

Heather J Rowe, Maggie Kirkman, E Annarella Hardiman, Shelley Mallett and Doreen A Rosenthal

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 69-72 Free

For debate

What changes are needed to the current direction and interpretation of clinical cancer research to meet the needs of the 21st century?

Ian N Olver and Ian E Haines

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 74-77 Free

Health care reform

Reforming New South Wales public hospitals: an assessment of the Garling inquiry

Clare A Skinner, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Brad Frankum, Ross K Kerridge and Kerry J Goulston

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 78-79 Free

Implementation of the Garling recommendations can offer real hope for rescuing the New South Wales public hospital system

Graeme J Stewart and John M Dwyer

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 80-82 Free

Enduring sport

The incidence of race-day jockey falls in Australia, 2002–2006

Peta L Hitchens, C Leigh Blizzard, Graeme Jones, Lesley M Day and James Fell

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 83-86 Free

Epidemiology of basketball and netball injuries that resulted in hospital admission in Australia, 2000–2004

Louise Flood and James E Harrison

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 87-90 Free

Cardiac troponin increases among marathon runners in the Perth Marathon: the Troponin in Marathons (TRIM) study

Kelley M Hubble, Daniel M Fatovich, Jonathon M Grasko and Samuel D Vasikaran

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 91-93 Free

History

Richard Mahony — the misfortunes of younger onset dementia

Brian M Draper

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 94-95 Free

Book reviews

Learning to face death

Michael P Barbato

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 73

Amphetamines, from there to here

Danny H Sullivan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 73

Letters

Pathological gambling and hypersexuality in cabergoline-treated prolactinoma

Henrik Falhammar and Jennifer Y Yarker

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 97

Inappropriate implantable defibrillator discharges from lead failure

Chin V Hiew and James W Leitch

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 97-98

Ingestion of magnets in children: a growing concern

Manjunath B Siddaiah-Subramanya and Peter Borzi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 98

Liver failure associated with the use of black cohosh for menopausal symptoms

Belal Naser and Eckehard Liske

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 99-100

Liver failure associated with the use of black cohosh for menopausal symptoms

Rolf Teschke

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 99-100

Liver failure associated with the use of black cohosh for menopausal symptoms

Elizabeth C-Y Chow, Marcus Teo, John A Ring and John W Chen

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 99-100

Coping with increasing numbers of medical students in rural clinical schools: options and opportunities

Debra F Nestel, Robyn A Hill, George T Somers and Christopher A Browne

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 101

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

Christopher X J Wong and Ross L Roberts-Thomson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 101-102

Vitamin D deficiency in Sydney skin cancer patients

Anna-Marie McCombie, Rebecca S Mason and Diona L Damian

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 102

Public perceptions of Australia’s doctors, hospitals and health care systems

Michael H Armitage

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 102-103

Public perceptions of Australia’s doctors, hospitals and health care systems

Elizabeth A Hardie and Christine R Critchley

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 102-103

Mandatory reporting of professional incompetence

James A Dunbar and Prasuna Reddy

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 103-104

Mandatory reporting of professional incompetence

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 103-104

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 96