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Volume 193 Issue 8

18 October 2010

From the editor’s desk

Longevity and the place to be

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 433 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 434 Free

Editorials

Thrombolysis for stroke

Mark Fitzgerald and Richard P Gerraty

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 436-437

Stenting for carotid artery stenosis: festina lente . . . hasten slowly

Christopher F Bladin, on behalf of the Carotid Stenting Guidelines Committee (Australia and New Zealand)

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 437-438

Research

Thrombolysis for acute stroke in Australia: outcomes from the Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke registry (2002–2008)

Marion A Simpson, Helen M Dewey, Leonid Churilov, Niaz Ahmed, Christopher F Bladin, David Schultz, Romesh Markus, Jonathan W Sturm, Christopher R Levi, David J Blacker, Jim Jannes, Richard I Lindley and Mark W Parsons

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 439-443 Free

Lost in transition? Access to and uptake of adult health services and outcomes for young people with type 1 diabetes in regional New South Wales

Lin Perry, Katharine S Steinbeck, Janet S Dunbabin and Julia M Lowe

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 444-449 Free

Doctors’ knowledge of patient radiation exposure from diagnostic imaging requested in the emergency department

Gerben B Keijzers and Charles J Britton

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 450-453 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Influenza A testing and detection in patients admitted through emergency departments in Sydney during winter 2009: implications for rational testing

Andrew Jardine, Stephen J Conaty, Michelle A Cretikos, Wei-Yuen Su, Iain B Gosbell and Sebastiaan J van Hal

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 455-459 Free

Position statement

Management of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency: Australasian Pancreatic Club recommendations

James Toouli, Andrew V Biankin, Mark R Oliver, Callum B Pearce, Jeremy S Wilson and Nicholas H Wray

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 461-467 Free

Personal perspective

A stroke of luck ... or just the ideal model of care?

Bruce P Waxman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 468

Clinical update

Insulin-dependent diabetes and aeromedical certification — the Australian perspective

David J P Fitzgerald, Pooshan D Navathe and A Michael Drane

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 469-471 Free

Viewpoint

Taxing junk food: applying the logic of the Henry tax review to food

Molly E Bond, Michael J Williams, Brad Crammond and Bebe Loff

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 472-473 Free

For debate

People at the centre of complex adaptive health systems reform

Joachim P Sturmberg, Diana M O’Halloran and Carmel M Martin

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 474-478 Free

Notable cases

Bradycardia in a patient taking black cohosh

Scott C McKenzie and Atifur Rahman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 479-481 Free

Letters

Evidence of increasing frequency of herpes zoster management in Australian general practice since the introduction of a varicella vaccine

Kristina A Grant, Kylie S Carville and Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 483

Lost opportunities with Australia's health workforce?

Tony Badrick, Leslie Burnett, Peter E Graham and Peter P Vervaart

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 484

Complexity of risk for transfusion malaria and differentiated response to risk management

Bryan R Spencer and Louis M Katz

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 484

Caregivers’ intentions regarding pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination for their children

Julie Leask, Maria Yui Kwan Chow, Catherine King and Robert Booy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 485-486

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

James P Bradley

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 486-487

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

Alan F Merry and Bruce H Barraclough

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 486-487

Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education

Joanna R Sutherland

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 487-488

Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education

John A H Williamson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 487-488

Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education

Christine M Jorm

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 487-488

Supplement

Using what we gather - information for improved care

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): Open Access

Obituaries

Desmond Joseph McGarry MB BS, FRACGP

Thomas J Murphy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 478 Free

Herbert Victor Gibson MB BS, FRACGP, DipSocSci

Edward Underwood

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 481 Free

Correction

Interviewer bias in medical student selection

Barbara N Griffin and Ian G Wilson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 486 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Alison Williams

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 482