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Volume 195 Issue 2

18 July 2011

Editor’s choice

Why are prisoners dying after they’re released?

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 59 Free

Editorials

Psychiatric disorders and referral obligations

Ian R Freckelton and George Mendelson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 60-61

Testosterone and sex in older men

Bu B Yeap

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 61-62

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s access to medicines — the QUMAX program

Sophie Couzos, Vicki Sheedy and Dea Delaney Thiele

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 62-63 Free

Research

Counting the cost: estimating the number of deaths among recently released prisoners in Australia

Stuart A Kinner, David B Preen, Azar Kariminia, Tony Butler, Jessica Y Andrews, Mark Stoové and Matthew Law

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 64-68 Free

Causes of ant sting anaphylaxis in Australia: the Australian Ant Venom Allergy Study

Simon G A Brown, Pauline van Eeden, Michael D Wiese, Raymond J Mullins, Graham O Solley, Robert Puy, Robert W Taylor and Robert J Heddle

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 69-73 Free

Equity and access: understanding emergency health service use by newly arrived refugees

Mohamud Sheikh, Peter I Nugus, Zhanhai Gao, Anna Holdgate, Alison E Short, Ayman Al Haboub and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 74-76 Free

Opposing views

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base? — Yes

Marie V Pirotta

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 78

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base? — No

John M Dwyer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 79

Viewpoint

Bipolar II disorder — diagnostic and management lessons for health practitioners from a coronial inquest

Gordon B Parker

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 81-83 Free

MJA/Pfizer Research Award

The Medical Journal of Australia/ Pfizer Australia Research Award

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 83 Free

For debate

Is the “alcopops” tax working? Probably yes but there is a bigger picture

Steven J Skov, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Kypros Kypri, Peter G Miller, Wayne D Hall, Michael M Daube and A Rob Moodie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 84-86 Free

Notable cases

Herpes simplex encephalitis presenting after steroid treatment of panuveitis

K Nadia Wittles, Lucy A Goold and Jagjit S Gilhotra

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 87-88 Free

Health care

“Death in low-mortality diagnosis-related groups”: frequency, and the impact of patient and hospital characteristics

Anna L Barker, Caroline A Brand, Sue M Evans, Peter A Cameron and Damien J Jolley

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 89-94 Free

Obituary

Gillespie Neal (Neil) McGilp Orr MB BS, FRCS

James B Roche

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 96 Free

Position statement

Recommendations for managing paediatric empyema thoracis

Roxanne E Strachan and Adam Jaffé, on behalf of the Australian Research Network in Empyema (ARNiE)

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 95

Book review

Illness in colonial Australia

Elliot Rubinstein

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 96

Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

The Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Competition: changing the world, one story at a time

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 97

Letters

Why are women referred for female genital cosmetic surgery?

Rebecca Deans, Lih-Mei Liao, Naomi S Crouch and Sarah M Creighton

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 99

A vaccine to prevent exacerbations in COPD

Robert L Clancy and Margaret Dunkley

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 99-100

Skin cancer screening of outdoor workers in Queensland

Nicola C Douglas, Laura Baillie and H Peter Soyer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 100-101

What is the value of professional opinion?

Christopher J Ryan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 101-102

What is the value of professional opinion?

Hedley G Peach

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 101-102

Predictive validity of the UMAT for medical students’ academic performance

Barbara N Griffin

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 102

Safeguard or mollycoddle? Medical student placements in Aboriginal communities

Adrian N Winsor

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 102-104 Free

Safeguard or mollycoddle? Medical student placements in Aboriginal communities

Andrew W Nielsen

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 102-104 Free

Safeguard or mollycoddle? Medical student placements in Aboriginal communities

Ameeta Patel and Margaret Vigants

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 102-104 Free

Correction

Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care

Lorna K Rosenwax, Beverley A McNamara, Kevin Murray, Rebecca J McCabe, Samar M Aoun and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 104

Columns

In Other Journals

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 98