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Volume 191 Issue 11

7 December 2009

Journal activities

MJA 2009: changing of the guard

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 588-590

From the editor’s desk

Health reform and the elephant in the room

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 592 Free

Editorials

Let’s drink (and eat) to our obese economic heroes

Garry J Egger

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 593-594

Climate change and human health: recognising the really inconvenient truth

Anthony J McMichael and Colin D Butler

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 595-596

Conference report

Trouble in paradise

Timothy J J Inglis, Ronan J Murray and Michael Watson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 597-598 Free

Rural and Remote Health

Frequent users of the Royal Flying Doctor Service primary clinic and aeromedical services in remote New South Wales: a quality study

David L Garne, David A Perkins, Frances T Boreland and David M Lyle

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 602-604 Free

Geriatric ward rounds by video conference: a solution for rural hospitals

Leonard C Gray, Olivia R Wright, Alison J Cutler, Paul A Scuffham and Richard Wootton

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 605-608 Free

The first medical jet aircraft for the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Stephen A Langford

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 609-610

Death and dying

The hidden trauma of organ donation

Joanne M van Os

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 612-613

Not that day ...

Jeremy R Chapman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 613-614

Organ donation: a matter of trust

Aric Bendorf

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 614

“He’s in the garage” — taking time at the end of life

Karen L Dunn

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 615

Young, pregnant and dying — how can we provide the “right” care?

Faith D Cranfield and Carol M Douglas

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 616-617

Medicine and the media

As mass media evolves into “masses of media”, what are the implications for our health?

Melissa A Sweet and Margaret J Simons

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 618-619

The content and structure of Australian television reportage on health and medicine, 2005–2009: parameters to guide health workers

Simon Chapman, Simon J Holding, Jessica Ellerm, Rachel C Heenan, Andrea S Fogarty, Michelle Imison, Ross Mackenzie and Kevin McGeechan

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 620-624 Free

Content analysis of disease awareness advertisements in popular Australian women’s magazines

Danika V Hall, Sandra C Jones and Donald C Iverson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 625-629 Free

Power of one

A lifetime pursuit of diabetes through chance

Paul Z Zimmet

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 632-636

“Not in your lifetime, Ian!”

Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 638-642

Research enterprise

Research to improve health practice and policy

Warwick P Anderson and Elim M Papadakis

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 646-647 Free

Rational allocation of Australia’s research dollars: does the distribution of NHMRC funding by National Health Priority Area reflect actual disease burden?

Rebecca J Mitchell, Rod J McClure, Jake Olivier and Wendy L Watson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 648-652 Free

History

Simultaneous epidemics of influenza and malaria in the Australian Army in Palestine in 1918

G Dennis Shanks

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 654-657 Free

Charles Darwin’s impressions of New Zealand and Australia, and insights into his illness and his developing ideas on evolution

John A Hayman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 660-663 Free

Book reviews

In celebration of F B Smith

Sally Wilde

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 631

Volunteer medics in the Vietnam war

Robert K Likeman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 631

Ten (neuropsychiatric) tales, tall and true

John H Lloyd

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 642

More than a patient’s story

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 658

The culture of contagion

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 658

Quotable quotes

The getting of wisdom: quotes from MJA contributors in 2009

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 644

Departments

MJA Christmas Competition 2009: our humour and inspiration stimulus package

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 630

Prayer in the cathedral

Richard Bronson,*

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 653

ASID (HICSIG) position statement: infection control guidelines for patients with influenza-like illnesses, including pandemic (H1N1) influenza 2009, in Australian health care facilities

Rhonda L Stuart, Allen C Cheng, Caroline L Marshall and John K Ferguson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 667

Temporary henna tattoos with long-term consequences

Pablo J Almeida and Leopoldo Borrego

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 687

True stories

Out of my depth in East Timor

Geoffrey C Mullins

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 664-665

Beware of laying blame!

Francis V Carmody

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 667

Christmas celebrates birth: new life, new love, new hope

Colette L Livermore

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 668-669 Free

Plague in a time of war: an experience in South Vietnam

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 671-673

Christmas offerings

A prescription for a smile

Paula H Johnson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 594

The Drake Shake and a more bilious shade of green: a tale of mistaken latitude, altitude and tablets

Joseph Y S Ting

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 610

The ethical rap

Diann S Eley

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 647

Needlestick injury with smallpox vaccine

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 657

Publication celebration!

Peter W New

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 663

Cough disorder: an allegory on DSM-IV

Peter I Parry

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 674-676

Relative radio-opacity of commonly consumed fish species in South East Queensland on lateral neck x-ray: an ovine model

William R A Davies and Patricia J Bate

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 677-680 Free

Fast versus slow bandaid removal: a randomised trial

Jeremy S Furyk, Carl J O’Kane, Peter J Aitken, Colin J Banks and David A Kault

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 682-683 Free

“The moment is all we have”: patients and visitors reflect on a staff Christmas choir

Clare C O’Callaghan, Colin J Hornby, Elizabeth J Pearson and David L Ball

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 684-687 Free

The pressure of time

Anthony H T Hodgkinson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 688 Free

When two tribes go to war

Francis J Bowden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 690-691

A finger in the duodenum

Hayley Clifford, Millie Lui, Roger Lee and Andrew Thomson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 691

The dark side of the moon

Leonie A Calver, Barrie J Stokes and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 692-694 Free

Successful resuscitation after drowning in a home swimming pool

William L Darvall and Shelton Smith

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 694

Switched on

Balakrishnan R Nair

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 695