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Volume 194 Issue 8

18 April 2011

Editor's choice

What to study: matching funding to need

Annette G Katelaris

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 379 Free

Editorials

Cancer clinical trials in Australia

Ian N Olver

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 382-383

Evidence-based asthma management in children — what’s new?

Peter P Van Asperen, Craig M Mellis, Peter D Sly and Colin F Robertson

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 383-384

Alerting genetic relatives to a risk of serious inherited disease without a patient’s consent

Graeme K Suthers, Elizabeth A McCusker and Samantha A Wake

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 385-386

Research

Landscape of cancer clinical trials in Australia: using trial registries to guide future research

Rachel F Dear, Alexandra L Barratt, Kevin McGeechan, Lisa Askie, John Simes and Martin H N Tattersall

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 387-391 Free

Children Attending Paediatricians Study: a national prospective audit of outpatient practice from the Australian Paediatric Research Network

Harriet Hiscock, Gehan Roberts, Daryl Efron, Jillian R Sewell, Hannah E Bryson, Anna M H Price, Frank Oberklaid, Michael South and Melissa A Wake

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 392-397 Free

Predictors of deferral of treatment for hepatitis C infection in Australian clinics

Heather F Gidding, Matthew G Law, Janaki Amin, Graeme A Macdonald, Joe J Sasadeusz, Tracey L Jones, Simone I Strasser, Jacob George and Gregory J Dore, on behalf of the ACHOS investigator team

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 398-402 Free

Viewpoint

Doctors breaching patient privacy: Orwell redux

David J Handelsman, Leo A Turner and Ann J Conway

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 403-404

Clinical update

2011 Update to National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of chronic heart failure in Australia, 2006

Henry Krum, Michael V Jelinek, Simon Stewart, Andrew Sindone and John J Atherton

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 405-409 Free

Public health

The Easter bunny and the chocolate conspiracy

Nathan J Grills

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 410-412

Medicine and the law

Vaccination, consent and multidose vials

Mark R Diamond and Angela O’Brien-Malone

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 414-416 Free

Book reviews

Medicine in the crosshairs

Bruce H Short

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 417

Breast cancer guide

Elaine Arnold

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 417

Medicine and Art

The war on malaria and Nora Heysen’s documentation of Australian medical research through art between 1943 and 1945

Cherie L Prosser and Ian A Clark

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 418-419 Free

Notable cases

Bilateral homonymous superior quadrantanopia after traumatic attempts to remove a cockroach impacted in the external auditory canal

Wan Yi Ng, Brian E Chua, Todd A Hardy, David Wechsler and Stephen W Reddel

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 420-422 Free

Lessons from practice

A case of hepatitis attributable to repeated exposure to methoxyflurane during its use for procedural analgesia

Kacey M O’Rourke, Stuart McMaster and Karin M C Lust

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 423-424 Free

Snapshot

A large serous borderline ovarian tumour mimicking neurogenic bladder

Chih-Chung Shiao, Pi-Jen Hong, Shu-Chinh Chao and Jsun-Liang Kao

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 424 Free

Obituaries

Robert Desmond Marshall MD, MS, FRACS, FRCS

Kenneth A Myers

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 425 Free

Ronald Nicolson O’Reilly MB BS, MD, MRACP, FRACP

D Barry Appleton

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 425 Free

Letters

Cough mixture dependence and stroke: implications for pseudoephedrine regulation

Ajay Bharatula and Peter W New

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 427

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in patients with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes

Timothy M E Davis and Catherine Coleman

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 427-428

Risky radiology: not so black and white

Nicholas I Brown and Lawrence B Josey

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 428-429

Diagnosis and management of iron deficiency anaemia: a clinical update

Alan E Dugdale

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 429

Being correct about obesity

Timothy A Welborn and Satvinder S Dhaliwal

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 429-430

In defence of calcium

Gustavo Duque, on behalf of 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 2011; 194 (8): 430-431

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

Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 431-432

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

Tim Kleinig, James M Leyden, Andrew Lee and Jim Jannes

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 431-432

Columns

In Other Journals

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 426