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Volume 192 Issue 1

4 January 2010

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 2 Free

Editorials

Why we need tobacco sales data for good tobacco control

Coral E Gartner, Simon F Chapman, Wayne D Hall and Melanie A Wakefield

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 3-4

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction — coming to terms with an oxymoron

Peter S MacDonald

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 4-5

Lifelong consequences of poor fetal growth

Susan M Sayers and Gurmeet R Singh

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 5-6

Postcard from the US

Health care reform in the United States: an opportunity for primary care?

Nicholas A Zwar

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 8

Research

Caveat anicula! Beware of quiet little old ladies

Dennis T Wong, Robyn A Clark, Benjamin K Dundon, Andrew Philpott, Payman Molaee and Sepehr Shakib

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 9-13 Free

Birthweight and natural deaths in a remote Australian Aboriginal community

Wendy E Hoy and Jennifer L Nicol

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 14-19 Free

Role of general practitioners in managing age-related hearing loss

Julie M Schneider, Bamini Gopinath, Catherine M McMahon, Helena C Britt, Christopher M Harrison, Tim Usherwood, Stephen R Leeder and Paul Mitchell

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 20-23 Free

Single-dose azithromycin versus seven days of amoxycillin in the treatment of acute otitis media in Aboriginal children (AATAAC): a double blind, randomised controlled trial

Peter S Morris, Gaudencio Gadil, Gabrielle B McCallum, Cate A Wilson, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Paul Torzillo and Amanda J Leach

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 24-29 Free

Health care

A new model for neurology care in the emergency department

Rebekah M Ahmed, Timothy Green, Gabor M Halmagyi and Simon J G Lewis

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 30-32 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Acceptance of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination by the Australian public

Keith Eastwood, David N Durrheim, Alison Jones and Michelle Butler

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 33-36 Free

Review

Evidence-based guidelines for the management of hip fractures in older persons: an update

Jenson C S Mak, Ian D Cameron and Lyn M March

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 37-41 Free

Viewpoint

Myths of ideal hospital occupancy

Christopher A Bain, Peter G Taylor, Geoff McDonnell and Andrew Georgiou

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 42-43 Free

Clinical update

High-functioning pervasive developmental disorders in adults

Sarah J Abrahamson, Peter G Enticott and Bruce J Tonge

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 44-48 Free

Lessons from practice

Spleen registry may help reduce the incidence of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in Victoria

Justin T Denholm, Penelope A Jones, Denis W Spelman, Paul U Cameron and Ian J Woolley

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 49-50 Free

Letters

Persistent unilateral right diaphragmatic palsy following liver transplantation

H S Subhash, John W C Chen, Libby John, Jeffery J Bowden, Dimitar Sajkov and Peter Frith

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 52

Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and suicidal ideation: findings from the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

Jane E Pirkis, Philip M Burgess, Amy K Johnston and Harvey A Whiteford

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 53

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

Richard A Smallwood

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 53-54

Use of complementary and alternative medicine by patients with osteoporosis in Australia

Jenson C S Mak and Steven Faux

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 54-55

“Through a glass, darkly”: the clinical and ethical implications of Munchausen syndrome

Dawn E DeWitt, Ravi Bhat and Stephanie Ward

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 55

Building capacity in medical education research in Australia

Ian G Wilson, on behalf of the ANZAME Committee of Management

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 55-56

General practice: survival by adaptation

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 56

Obituary

Joffre Bartholomew Cowle BSc(Med)(Hons), MB BS, DO, FRACO

James B Roche

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 29 Free

Correction

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Western Australia: emergence of serotype 19A

Carolien M Giele, Anthony D Keil, Deborah Lehmann and Paul G Van Buynder

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 52

Book review

Total toxicology

George A Jelinek

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 43

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 51