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Volume 192 Issue 11

7 June 2010

From the editor’s desk

Health reform cycles

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 625 Free

In This Issue

Wendy Morgan

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 626 Free

Editorials

Reducing the burden of inherited disease: the Human Variome Project

Richard G H Cotton and Finlay A Macrae

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 628-629

The ABC breast cancer cluster: the bad news about a good outcome

Bernard W Stewart

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 629-631

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

Alan F Merry and Bruce H Barraclough

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 631-632

Research

Expiry of patent protection on statins: effects on pharmaceutical expenditure in Australia

Philip M Clarke and Edmund M Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 633-636 Free

Dose adjustment for normal eating (DAFNE) — an audit of outcomes in Australia

H David McIntyre, Brigid A Knight, Dianne M Harvey, Marina N Noud, Virginia L Hagger and Kristen S Gilshenan

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 637-640 Free

Population-based observational study of claudication in older men: the Health in Men Study

Rahul Lakshmanan, Zoë Hyde, Konrad Jamrozik, Graeme J Hankey and Paul E Norman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 641-645 Free

Health care

Putting science to work for health care reform: how much research is available to support improvements to our hospitals?

Mary Haines, Sally Redman, Louisa R Jorm, Teresa M Wozniak and Sanja Lujic

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 646-650 Free

Public health

Breast cancer risk among female employees of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia

Freddy Sitas, Dianne L O’Connell, Cathelijne H van Kemenade, Mark W Short and Kun Zhao

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 651-654 Free

Medicine and the law

Normative lessons: codes of conduct, self-regulation and the law

Malcolm H Parker

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 658-660 Free

Personal perspective

Alcoholism: disease or symptom? The challenges of managing advanced alcoholism and chronic illness

Jillian Dorrian

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 661-662

Lessons from practice

Don’t hold your breath: anoxic convulsions from coupled hyperventilation–underwater breath-holding

Kishore R Kumar and Karl Ng

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 663-664 Free

Letters

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza, pregnancy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Susan A Welch, Leone N Snowden and Hergen Buscher

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 668

Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: screening needed to prevent blindness

Elvis Ojaimi, Robyn H Guymer, Tien Y Wong and C Alex Harper

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 668-669

Hydroxycut hepatotoxicity

Ken J Harvey

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 669-670

A lifetime pursuit of diabetes through chance

Wladyslaw W Smolilo

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 670-671

A lifetime pursuit of diabetes through chance

Paul Z Zimmet

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 670-671

Defining disorders of the mind

Niall McLaren

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 671

CICADA: Cough in Children and Adults: Diagnosis and Assessment. Australian Cough Guidelines summary statement

Raymond J Mullins, Constance H Katelaris and Janet Rimmer

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 671-672

CICADA: Cough in Children and Adults: Diagnosis and Assessment. Australian Cough Guidelines summary statement

Nicholas J Potter and Eduard I Pudel

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 671-672

CICADA: Cough in Children and Adults: Diagnosis and Assessment. Australian Cough Guidelines summary statement

Peter G Gibson, Anne B Chang and Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 671-672

Supplement

Delivering timely interventions: the impact of the internet on mental health

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): Open Access

Snapshot

Two in one: more than we bargained for

Jimmy Z Shen and Jui T Ho

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 654 Free

Obituary

Konrad David Jamrozik BMedSc, MB BS, DPhil, FAFPHM, FFPH, FPHAA

Terry Slevin and Euzebiusz Jamrozik

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 662 Free

Corrections

Cost-effectiveness of volumetric alcohol taxation in Australia

Joshua M Byrnes, Linda J Cobiac, Christopher M Doran and Theo Vos

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 655

It’s time to depolarise the unhelpful PSA-testing debate and put into practice lessons from the two major international screening trials

James W Denham, Ron Bender and William E J Paradice

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 655

Managing residual risk in patients receiving statin therapy

Ian R Hamilton-Craig

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 655

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 666