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Volume 191 Issue 3

3 August 2009

From the editor’s desk

Pinpointing health

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 129 Free

In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 130 Free

MJA Impact Factor

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 129

Editorials

Rapid impact of rotavirus vaccination in the United States: implications for Australia

Kristine K Macartney and Margaret A Burgess

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 131-132

The new age of pharmacovigilance

Kathlyn J Ronaldson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 132-134

Testosterone for low libido in postmenopausal women not using systemic oestrogen therapy

Susan R Davis

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 134-135

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Understanding Australia’s influenza pandemic policy on the strategic use of the antiviral drug stockpile

James M McCaw, James G Wood, Emma S McBryde, Terry M Nolan, Joseph T Wu, Marc Lipsitch and Jodie McVernon

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 136-137

Swine flu update: bringing home the bacon

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 138-140 Free

Summary of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases and the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand guidelines: treatment and prevention of H1N1 influenza 09  (human swine influenza) with antiviral agents

Allen C Cheng, Dominic E Dwyer, A Thomas C Kotsimbos, Mike Starr, Tony M Korman, Jim P Buttery, Christine R Jenkins, Vicki L Krause and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 142-145

Epidemiological characteristics of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and seasonal influenza infection

Heath A Kelly, Kristina A Grant, Simon Williams, James Fielding and David Smith

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 146-149 Free

Australia’s influenza containment plan and the swine flu epidemic in Victoria

M Lindsay Grayson and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 150

The general practice experience of the swine flu epidemic in Victoria — lessons from the front line

Peter Eizenberg

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 151-153 Free

Life-threatening respiratory failure from H1N1 influenza 09  (human swine influenza)

Melissa A Kaufman, Graeme J Duke, Forbes McGain, Craig French, Craig Aboltins, Gary Lane and Geoff A Gutteridge

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 154-156

Research

Early evidence for direct and indirect effects of the infant rotavirus vaccine program in Queensland

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Lisa Hall, Frances A Birrell, Karen V Peterson, Christine E Selvey, Theo P Sloots, Michael D Nissen and Keith Grimwood

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 157-160 Free

Injection of medications used in opioid substitution treatment in Australia after the introduction of a mixed partial agonist–antagonist formulation

Louisa Degenhardt, Briony K Larance, James R Bell, Adam R Winstock, Nicholas Lintzeris, Robert L Ali, Nicolas Scheuer and Richard P Mattick

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 161-165 Free

For debate

Smoking questions on the Australian death notification form: adopting international best practice?

Freddy Sitas, Dianne L O’Connell, Konrad Jamrozik and Alan D Lopez

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 166-168 Free

Viewpoint

The widening gap between clinical, teaching and research work

Catherine M Joyce, Leon Piterman and Steven L Wesselingh

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 169-172 Free

Lessons from practice

Two cases of anticholinergic syndrome associated with consumption of bitter lupin flour

Nevada M Pingault, Robyn A Gibbs, Alexander M Barclay and Mark Monaghan

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 173-174 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Starting at strengths . . . an Indigenous early years intervention

Chelsea Bond

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 175-177 Free

Clinical update

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Steven J Lindstrom, Vincent A Pellegrino and W Warwick Butt

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 178-182 Free

Notable cases

Envenoming by the rough-scaled snake (Tropidechis carinatus): a series of confirmed cases

Melissa Gan, Margaret A O’Leary, Simon G A Brown, Tamara Jacoby, David Spain, Alan Tankel, Chris Gavaghan, Peter Garrett and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 183-186 Free

Letters

Estimating coverage of the National HPV Vaccination Program: where are we at?

Julia M L Brotherton and Robyn M Mullins

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 188

Reasons for termination of pregnancy in women aged 35 and over

Wendy Lee and Danielle Mazza

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 188-189

The quality of medication information in Australia: the need for more clinical expertise and accountability

Caroline E Bulsara and Anne McKenzie

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 189

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

Jennifer H Martin, Christopher Beer, Raymond G Morris and Matthew P Doogue

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 189-190

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

Matthew P Doogue and Kathleen M Knights

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 190

The Australian Medical Council draft code of professional conduct: good practice or creeping authoritarianism?

John B Myers

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 190-191

The Australian Medical Council draft code of professional conduct: good practice or creeping authoritarianism?

Paul A Komesaroff and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 190-191

Australian doctors need to catch up with population policy

Robin I W Collin

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 191-192

Evolution of a house: Darwin’s link to Pambula

George D Repin

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 192

Awards

Clean hands, caring hands: MJA Awards Ceremony 2009

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 177

Book review

Australia’s sportsman Tom Wills

Michael C Kennedy

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 160

Correction

Avoiding the tragedy of another balcony collapse

Shinichiro Sakata, Craig A McBride, James W Nixon and Roy M Kimble

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 192

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 187