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Volume 190 Issue 8

20 April 2009

From the editor’s desk

Reforming United States Health: “Yes we can!”

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 401 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 402 Free

Editorials

Eating disorders in younger children: current issues and unanswered questions

Phillipa J Hay

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 403-404

Coeliac disease: to screen or not to screen, that is the question

John M Duggan and Anne E Duggan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 404-405

Liaison between public hospital staff and the pharmaceutical industry: guidance from the NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group

Diana H Shipp and Gordon Mallarkey

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 406-407

Doctors and the pharmaceutical industry: time for a national policy?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 407-408

Research

Burden of eating disorders in 5–13-year-old children in Australia

Sloane Madden, Anne Morris, Yvonne A Zurynski, Michael Kohn and Elizabeth J Elliot

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 410-414 Free

Perinatal exposure to HIV among children born in Australia, 1982–2006

Ann M McDonald, Yvonne A Zurynski, Handan C Wand, Michelle L Giles, Elizabeth J Elliott, John B Ziegler and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 416-420 Free

Refugee Health

The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases guidelines for the diagnosis, management and prevention of infections in recently arrived refugees: an abridged outline

Ronan J Murray, Joshua S Davis and David P Burgner, on behalf of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Refugee Health Guidelines Writing Group

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 421-425 Free

The natural history of vitamin D deficiency in African refugees living in Sydney

Paul Z Benitez-Aguirre, Nicholas J Wood, Cornelis Biesheuvel, Conrad Moreira and Craig F Munns

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 426-428 Free

Health care

Screening for coeliac disease using anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody assays, and prevalence of the disease in an Australian community

Marcus W Chin, Dominic F Mallon, Digby J Cullen, John K Olynyk, Lindsay C Mollison and Callum B Pearce

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 429-432 Free

Medical education

Interprofessional education in health sciences: the University of Queensland Health Care Team Challenge

Rosalie A Boyce, Monica C Moran, Lisa M Nissen, Helen J Chenery and Peter M Brooks

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 433-436 Free

For debate

Alcohol taxation policy in Australia: public health imperatives for action

Steven J Skov, for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Alcohol Advisory Group

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 437-439 Free

Systematic review

How can we prevent and treat cardiogenic shock in patients who present to non-tertiary hospitals with myocardial infarction? A systematic review

Enda O’Connor and John F Fraser

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 440-445 Free

Viewpoint

Genesis of medical thromboprophylaxis guidelines in Australia: a need for transparency and standardisation in guideline development

J Alasdair Millar

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 446-450 Free

Genesis of medical thromboprophylaxis guidelines in Australia: a need for transparency and standardisation in guideline development

John P Fletcher

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 450

Notable cases

Prolonged varicella viraemia and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome following varicella vaccination of a health care worker

Claire M Italiano, Cheryl S Toi, Simon P Chan and Dominic E Dwyer

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 451-453 Free

Lessons from practice

Sore throat: a trivial complaint masking a life-threatening condition

Sébastien Anguille, Aurélie M Derweduwen, Jeroen Lenz, Luc Vanuytsel and Frank J Cools

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 454-456 Free

Letters

Quality of Australian clinical guidelines and relevance to the care of older people with multiple comorbid conditions

James Tatoulis, Nancy P Huang and Andrew N Boyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 459

Patients expect transparency in doctors’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry

Catherine H Cole

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 459-461

Patients expect transparency in doctors’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry

Brad S Dalton and Deborah J Richards

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 459-461

Patients expect transparency in doctors’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry

Martin H N Tattersall and Aneta Dimoska

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 459-461

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

Maher K Gandhi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 461

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 (8): 461

Dealing with “rogue” medical students: we need a nationally consistent approach based on “case law”

Sarah J Abrahamson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 461-462

Influenza, marksmanship and the last gasps of the Great War

Timothy J J Inglis

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 462

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

Susan M Gorton

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 462-463

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 P Craig Veitch

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 462-463

Safety of nanoparticles in sunscreens

Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 463

Knowing — or not knowing — when to stop: cognitive decline in ageing doctors

David G Fenwick

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 464

Correction

Clinical, electrophysiological and genetic features of a large Australian family with paramyotonia congenita

Sharavanan Parasivam, Malgorzata Krupa, Mark Slee and Dominic E Thyagarajan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 456

Snapshot

Tonsillar swelling: always a simple diagnosis?

Matteo Alicandri-Ciufelli, Gabriele Molteni, Domenico Villari, Francesco Mattioli and Livio Presutti

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 457 Free

Book reviews

What to ask your doctor

Beth A Wilson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 436

Understanding intersexuality

Garry L Warne

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 456

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 458