Connect
MJA
MJA

Volume 193 Issue 3

2 August 2010

From the editor’s desk

“Realistic about obesity? Fat chance!”

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 129 Free

In This Issue

Wendy Morgan

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 130 Free

Editorials

Recognising and responding to the obvious: the source of lead pollution at Mount Isa and the likely health impacts

Niels C Munksgaard, Mark P Taylor and Alana Mackay

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 131-132

Guidelines for youth depression: time to incorporate new perspectives

Ian B Hickie and Patrick D McGorry

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 133-134

Rosiglitazone and cardiovascular disease revisited

Timothy M E Davis and Johannes B Prins

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 134-135

Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Cultural safety in health for Aboriginal people: will it work in Australia?

Rosemary van den Berg

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 136-137 Free

Research

The burden of alcohol drinking on co-workers in the Australian workplace

Caroline E Dale and Michael J Livingston

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 138-140 Free

The use of cross-jurisdictional population data to investigate health indicators of child maltreatment

Melissa O’Donnell, Natasha Nassar, Helen M Leonard, Richard P Mathews, Yvonne G Patterson and Fiona J Stanley

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 142-145 Free

Health service attendance patterns in an urban Aboriginal health service

Karen M Flegg, Christine B Phillips, Anne L Collins, Peter G Sharp, Meetali Kanagasundaram, Ray W Lovett and Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 146-148 Free

A multimodal intervention to improve fragility fracture management in patients presenting to emergency departments

Charles A Inderjeeth, Denise A Glennon, Kate E Poland, Katherine V Ingram, Richard L Prince, Victoria R Van and C D’Arcy J Holman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 149-153 Free

Impact of adverse news media on prescriptions for osteoporosis: effect on fractures and mortality

Philip N Sambrook, Jiang S Chen, Judy M Simpson and Lyn M March

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 154-156 Free

Review

Ethical considerations in choosing a model for population-based cystic fibrosis carrier screening

Lucy J Modra, R John Massie and Martin B Delatycki

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 157-160 Free

Medical profession

Factors associated with psychiatric morbidity and hazardous alcohol use in Australian doctors

Louise M Nash, Michele G Daly, Patrick J Kelly, Elizabeth H van Ekert, Garry Walter, Merrilyn Walton, Simon M Willcock and Chris C Tennant

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 161-166 Free

Health care

Lost opportunities with Australia’s health workforce?

Matthew J Leach, Leonie Segal and Esther May

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 167-172 Free

Position statement

Treatment for osteoporosis in Australian residential aged care facilities: consensus recommendations for fracture prevention

Gustavo Duque, Jacqueline J Close, Julien P de Jager, Peter R Ebeling, Charles Inderjeeth, Stephen Lord, Andrew J McLachlan, Ian R Reid, Bruce R Troen and Philip N Sambrook

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 173-179 Free

Notable cases

Frightening visual hallucinations: atypical presentation of Charles Bonnet syndrome triggered by the Black Saturday bushfires

Meri Vukicevic

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 181-182 Free

Letters

Subconjunctival dog heartworm

Elaine W Chong, Harsha Sheorey, Cheng Hean Lo, David M Spratt and Enrique Graue-Hernández

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 184

Suicide and mental disorder: the legal perspective

Saxby Pridmore

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 184-185

Invisible people?

Nicholas G Lennox and James C Simpson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 185

Current concepts in the management of Parkinson disease

David S Tofler

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 185-186

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

Liliana Bulfone

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 186-187

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

Philip M Clarke and Edmund M FitzGerald

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 186-187

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

Sharon L Brennan, Margaret J Henry, Geoffrey C Nicholson and Julie A Pasco

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 187-188

Does access to compensation have an impact on recovery outcomes after injury?

Belinda J Gabbe, Ian A Harris, Alex Collie and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 188-190

Does access to compensation have an impact on recovery outcomes after injury?

Nicholas S Glozier and Matthew Large

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 188-190

Does access to compensation have an impact on recovery outcomes after injury?

David M Studdert, Harold Luntz and Genevieve Grant

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 188-190

Does access to compensation have an impact on recovery outcomes after injury?

Alex Collie and Niki Ellis

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 188-190

Does access to compensation have an impact on recovery outcomes after injury?

Meaghan L O’Donnell, Mark C Creamer, Richard A Bryant, Alexander C McFarlane and Derrick Silove

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 188-190

Achieving standardised reporting of suicide in Australia: rationale and program for change

Jessica D Pearse

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 191

Homeopathy: what does the “best” evidence tell us?

Jon L Wardle

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 191-192

Homeopathy: what does the “best” evidence tell us?

Edzard Ernst

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 191-192

Junk food packaging — a challenge to the Prime Minister

Bebe Loff and Brad R Crammond

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 192

Snapshot

Cutaneous marker of an upper gastrointestinal bleed

Pazhanivel Mohan, Mohan Kaduganoor Ramakrishnan and Jayanthi Venkataraman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 179 Free

Book review

Breathing life into histology

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 180

How to examine patients

Timothy P Usherwood

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 180

Correction

MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?

Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 192

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 183