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Volume 192 Issue 3

1 February 2010

From the editor’s desk

Where have all the flowers gone?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 113 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 114 Free

Editorials

The future of the physician assistant movement

Roderick S Hooker

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 116

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?

Keryn J Christiansen

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 117-118

Postcard from New York

Medical identity fraud in the United States: could it happen here?

Jeffrey D Zajac

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 119

Research

Reducing drowning deaths: the continued challenge of immersion fatalities in Australia

Richard C Franklin, Justin P Scarr and John H Pearn

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 123-126 Free

Dyslipidaemia in rural Australia: prevalence, awareness, and adherence to treatment guidelines in the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study

Edward D Janus, Philip A Tideman, James A Dunbar, Annamari Kilkkinen, Stephen J Bunker, Benjamin Philpot, Rosy Tirimacco, Kevin Mc Namara, Sami Heistaro and Tiina Laatikainen

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 127-132 Free

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

Joshua S Davis, Gail B Cross, Patrick G P Charles, Bart J Currie, Nicholas M Anstey and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 133-136 Free

Urban–rural comparison of weight status among women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Verity Cleland, Clare Hume, David Crawford, Anna Timperio, Kylie Hesketh, Louise Baur, Nicky Welch, Jo Salmon and Kylie Ball

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 137-140 Free

Health care

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery in Australia

Timothy P Haydon, Jeffrey J Presneill and Megan S Robertson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 141-143 Free

Clinical update

Current concepts in the management of Parkinson disease

Michael W Hayes, Victor S Fung, Thomas E Kimber and John D O’Sullivan

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 144-149 Free

Medical education

Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia?

J Nicky Hudson, Kathryn M Weston, Elizabeth E Farmer, Rowena G Ivers and Russell W Pearson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 150-153 Free

For debate

The new “Indigenous health” incentive payment: issues and challenges

Sophie Couzos and Dea Delaney Thiele

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 154-157 Free

Medicine and the community

Depressive symptoms in older male Italian immigrants in Australia: the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project

Fiona F Stanaway, Robert G Cumming, Vasi Naganathan, Fiona M Blyth, Helen M Creasey, Louise M Waite, David J Handelsman and Markus J Seibel

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 158-162 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Infection control of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in hospitals — a logistic challenge

Uma Devi and Kirsty L Buising

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 164-165

Oseltamivir-resistant pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in a severely ill patient: the first Australian case

David J Speers, Simon H Williams, Mary Pinder, Harry R Moody, Aeron C Hurt and David W Smith

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 166-168

Letters

Regressing metastatic melanoma and vitiligo-like depigmentation in an Indigenous Australian

Elizabeth M Christou, Diona L Damian and John F Thompson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 171

Can prior vaccinations against certain infections confer protection against developing melanoma?

Michael G E O’Rourke

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 171-172

Desmoplastic small round cell tumour: an unusual presentation of an unusual tumour

Meena Okera, David Moffat and Sudarshan Selva-Nayagam

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 172-173

Hydroxycut hepatotoxicity

N Nudrat Rashid and Jason Grant

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 173-174

Vertebroplasty appears no better than placebo for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures, and has potential to cause harm

Paul J Graziotti

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 174-175

Vertebroplasty appears no better than placebo for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures, and has potential to cause harm

Kevin D Pile

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 174-175

Vertebroplasty appears no better than placebo for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures, and has potential to cause harm

Rachelle Buchbinder, Richard H Osborne and David Kallmes

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 174-175

The private hospital: a potential surgical training ground

Ian R Gough, Ian D Civil, Spencer W Beasley, Bruce H Barraclough and David J Hillis

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 175-176

Our public health system: an accident waiting to happen?

Robert N Atkinson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 176

Book review

Understanding bipolar disorder

Philip B Mitchell

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 163

Correction

Cough disorder: an allegory on DSM-IV

Peter I Parry

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 175

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 170