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Volume 194 Issue 3

7 February 2011

From the editor’s desk

The oldest woman physician in England

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 105 Free

In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 106 Free

Editorials

Managing patients with advanced cancer: the benefits of early referral for palliative care

Ian E Haines

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 107-108

Evidence-based primary health care workforce reforms: priority areas for research

Lucio Naccarella, Peter M Brooks, Bill Newton and Danielle Butler

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 109-110

Research

A population-based study of thrombolysis for acute stroke in South Australia

James M Leyden, Woon K Chong, Tim Kleinig, Andrew Lee, John B Field and Jim Jannes

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 111-115 Free

Changing epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in Australian children after introduction of a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Scott R Williams, Paul J Mernagh, Michael H T Lee and Jonathan T Tan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 116-120 Free

Conflicts of interest: a review of institutional policy in Australian medical schools

Paul R Mason and Martin H N Tattersall

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 121-125 Free

Public health

Iodine status of Aboriginal teenagers in the Darwin region before mandatory iodine fortification of bread

Dorothy E M Mackerras, Gurmeet R Singh and Creswell J Eastman

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 126-130 Free

Vitamin D insufficiency in Aboriginal Australians

Simon J Vanlint, Howard A Morris, Jonathan W Newbury and Alan J Crockett

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 131-134 Free

Health care

Clinical predictive value of the ABCD2 score for early risk of stroke in patients who have had transient ischaemic attack and who present to an Australian tertiary hospital

Lauren M Sanders, Velandai K Srikanth, Helen Psihogios, Kitty K Wong, David Ramsay and Thanh G Phan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 135-138 Free

Medicine and the law

Female genital mutilation: Australian law, policy and practical challenges for doctors

Ben Mathews

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 139-141 Free

Notable cases

Migratory lung lesions in an elderly man

Muhammad Kashif Nadeem and Mohammed A Khateeb

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 142-144 Free

Lessons from practice

Salicylate intoxication from teething gel in infancy

Gary D Williams, Edwin P Kirk, Callum J Wilson, Caroline A Meadows and Betty S Chan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 146-148 Free

Letters

Risk of brain damage in babies from naphthalene in mothballs: call to consider a national ban

William O Tarnow-Mordi, Nick J Evans, Kei Lui and Brian Darlow, on behalf of the Advisory Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 150

Alarm about computed tomography scans is unjustified

John C P Heggie, Stacy K Goergen and Michael J Fallon

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 150-151

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

Alain M Lavoipierre

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 151-152

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

Gerben B Keijzers and Charles J Britton

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 151-152

Lowering Australia’s defence against infectious diseases

Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 152

Book review

MS: a kernel of hope

James McLeod

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 145

Doctors in the Dardanelles

Peter D Byrne

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 145

Correction

Twenty-five years of treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in Western Australia: how do we compare?

Hannah Forward, Guicheng C Zheng and Catherine H Cole

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 152

Columns

In Other Journals

Peter Lavelle

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 149