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Volume 190 Issue 5

2 March 2009

From the editor’s desk

Clinical senators

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 225 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 226 Free

Editorials

Quality of prescribing decision support in primary care: still a work in progress

Farah Magrabi and Enrico W Coiera

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 227-228

Cannabis use in remote Indigenous communities in Australia: endemic yet neglected

K S Kylie Lee, Katherine M Conigrave, George C Patton and Alan R Clough

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 228-229 Free

Fertility matters

When and how to welcome government to the bedroom

Robert P S Jansen and Sandra K Dill

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 232-233

Perinatal outcomes after assisted reproductive technology treatment in Australia and New Zealand: single versus double embryo transfer

Yueping A Wang, Elizabeth A Sullivan, David L Healy and Deborah A Black

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 234-237 Free

The impact of the Baby Bonus payment in New South Wales: who is having “one for the country”?

Samantha J Lain, Jane B Ford, Camille H Raynes-Greenow, Ruth M Hadfield, Judy M Simpson, Jonathan M Morris and Christine L Roberts

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 238-241 Free

Could the Baby Bonus be a bonus for babies?

Caroline M de Costa and Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 242-243 Free

Sperm removal and dead or dying patients: a dilemma for emergency departments and intensive care units

Sarah L Middleton and Michael D Buist

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 244-246 Free

Oocyte freezing: timely reproductive insurance?

David Molloy, Barbara A Hall, Marianne Ilbery, Jacqui Irving and Keith L Harrison

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 247-249 Free

Infertility Treatment Act or forced sterilisation program?

Jock Findlay

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 250

Health care

Quality of drug interaction alerts in prescribing and dispensing software

Michelle Sweidan, James F Reeve, Jo-anne E Brien, Pradeep Jayasuriya, Jennifer H Martin and Graeme M Vernon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 251-254 Free

Review

Supraventricular tachycardia

Caroline Medi, Jonathan M Kalman and Saul B Freedman

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 255-260 Free

Notable cases

Spontaneous chylothorax in a 2-year-old child

Manuel E Soto-Martinez, Vanessa Clifford, Tom Clarnette, Sarath Ranganathan and R John Massie

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 262-264 Free

Viewpoint

Dengue and climate change in Australia: predictions for the future should incorporate knowledge from the past

Richard C Russell, Bart J Currie, Michael D Lindsay, John S Mackenzie, Scott A Ritchie and Peter I Whelan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 265-268 Free

For debate

Identifying existing health care services that do not provide value for money

Adam G Elshaug, John R Moss, Peter Littlejohns, Jonathan Karnon, Tracy L Merlin and Janet E Hiller

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 269-273 Free

Clinical update

Oral white lesions: pitfalls of diagnosis

Kai H Lee and Ajith D Polonowita

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 274-277 Free

Lessons from practice

Mycobacterium chelonae infection in a tattoo site

Veronica A Preda, Michael Maley and John R Sullivan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 278-279 Free

Letters

The rise and fall of suicide in New South Wales

Matthew M Large, Olav B Nielssen and Steven M Lackersteen

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 282

SMS text messaging for contact follow-up in invasive meningococcal disease

Johanne E Cochrane, Chris Lowbridge, Patrick Maywood and Stephen J Conaty

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 282-283

Recent increases in mumps incidence in Australia: the “forgotten” age group in the 1998 Australian Measles Control Campaign

Mark J Ferson and Pam Konecny

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 283-284

University Chairs of Radiology

William S C Hare

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 284

High levels of confusion for cholesterol awareness campaigns

David R Sullivan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 284-285

High levels of confusion for cholesterol awareness campaigns

Danika V Hall

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 284-285

Rediscovering university teaching hospitals for Australia

Leon Piterman

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 285-286

Rediscovering university teaching hospitals for Australia

Rachel F Dear and Martin H N Tattersall

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 285-286

Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous schoolchildren

Loretta R de Plevitz, Judith S Gould and Terrina M Smith

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 286-287 Free

Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous schoolchildren

Brian D Bowring and Amanda Little

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 286-287 Free

Impact of an educational intervention on general practitioners’ skills in cognitive behavioural strategies

Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 287-288

Impact of an educational intervention on general practitioners’ skills in cognitive behavioural strategies

Grant A Blashki, Leon Piterman, Graham N Meadows, David M Clarke, Vasuki Prabaharan, Jane M Gunn and Fiona K Judd

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 287-288

Impeding the supply of expertise in Australian health care: actions of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

James F Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 288

Book reviews

Better paediatric respiratory medicine

Craig M Mellis

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 261

Fighting depression — layman’s CBT

Sarah Perini

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 261

Obituary

Alan John Ferrier MB BS, MSc, MRCOG, FRANZCOG, CGO, FRACOG

Robert M Ford, Keith G Hartman and Jonathan R Stretch

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 264 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 280