Volume 192, Issue 4 | The Medical Journal of Australia

Lei Chen, Dianna J Magliano, Beverley Balkau, Stephen Colagiuri, Paul Z Zimmet, Andrew M Tonkin, Paul Mitchell, Patrick J Phillips and Jonathan E Shaw

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 197-202 Free

Clinical update

Australian experience with frozen blood products on military operations

Susan J Neuhaus, Ken Wishaw and Charles Lelkens

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 203-205 Free

Review

The Healthy Kids Check — is it evidence-based?

Karyn E Alexander and Danielle Mazza

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 207-210 Free

Medical education

Applicant characteristics and their influence on success: results from an analysis of applicants to the University of Adelaide Medical School, 2004–2007

Caroline O Laurence, Deborah A Turnbull, Nancy E Briggs and Jeffrey S Robinson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 212-216 Free

Viewpoint

Waiting lists and elective surgery: ordering the queue

Andrea J Curtis, Colin O H Russell, Johannes U Stoelwinder and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 217-220 Free

Performance-based hospital funding: a reform tool or an incentive for fraud?

Antony Nocera

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 222-224 Free

Notable cases

Giant villous adenoma presenting as McKittrick–Wheelock syndrome and pseudo-obstruction

Lachlan F Miles, Christopher J Wakeman and K Chip Farmer

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 225-227 Free

Lessons from practice

Anticoagulation and intraocular haemorrhage in age-related macular degeneration: a probable link?

Rajeev Chalasani and Salmaan Qureshi

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 228-229 Free

Letters

The growing popularity of “low-carb” beers: good marketing or community health risk?

Peter G Miller, Stephen P McKenzie, Florentine P de Groot, Sondra L Davoren and Evie R Leslie

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 235

Microbiological diagnostic tests for community-acquired pneumonia are useful

Adrian R Tramontana and Vincent Sinickas

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 235-236

Encysted seizures: status epilepticus in a recently resettled refugee child

Juliette M Lucey, James McCarthy and David P Burgner

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 237

Outcomes of a cystic fibrosis carrier testing clinic for couples

Peter C O’Leary, Susannah J Maxwell, Leanne M Youngs, Kate J Brameld and Ian R Walpole

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 238-239

Outcomes of a cystic fibrosis carrier testing clinic for couples

Louise M Christie, Angela J Ingrey, Gillian M Turner, Anne L Proos and Gloria E Watts

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 238-239

The role of general practitioners in managing and treating hepatitis C

Anne E Duggan and John M Duggan

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 239

The role of general practitioners in managing and treating hepatitis C

Margaret E Hellard, Yung-Hsuan J Wang and Rachel Sacks-Davis

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 239

Timing of transfer for pregnant women from Queensland Cape York communities to Cairns for birthing

Robert D Craig

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 239 Free

General Practice Super Clinics — how will they meet their educational objectives?

Timothy P Usherwood

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 240

Snapshot

Autonomic neuropathy — an uncommon variant of Guillain–Barré syndrome

Robert D Henderson, Jeyaraj D Pandian, Kaye M Dalton and John M Bradfield

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 232 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 234

Volume 192 Issue 4

From the editor’s desk

Editorials

Research