Volume 195, Issue 7 | The Medical Journal of Australia

Editor's choice

Improved assessment needed for young doctors

Annette G Katelaris and Christine M Jorm

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 369 Free

Editorials

Long-term outcomes for patients with cystic fibrosis in Australia

Kevin J Gaskin and Bridget Wilcken

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 370-371

Why is disulfiram not on the PBS?

Wendy L Lipworth, Alex D Wodak, Paul S Haber and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 371-372

The dangers of dogma in medicine

Rinaldo Bellomo

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 372-373

In brief

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From the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care: Clinical deterioration in hospital patients: recognition and response

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 375

Perspectives

Obesity and chronic disease: have we missed the point?

Garry Egger

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 377

“I want to consume this product; should public health experts stop me?” — Yes

Ken J Harvey

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 378

"I want to consume this product, should public health experts stop me?” — No

Michael J Keane

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 379-379

New aspirations: the debate on aspiration pneumonia treatment guidelines

Jason C Kwong, Benjamin P Howden and Patrick G P Charles

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 380-381 Free

The 2010 Specialist Trainees Survey

Rob D Mitchell, Alexandra L Markwell, Rick J Fielke, Michael A Bonning, Andrew W Perry and Dror Maor

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 382

Letters

Factors affecting outpatient non-attendance in an Australian children’s hospital

Sean R Downer, Kannan Sethuraman and Devanath Tirupati

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 383

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

Emma L Duncan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 383

Routine screening for vitamin D deficiency in early pregnancy

Donald S A McLeod, Katherine A Scott, Karin M C Lust and H David McIntyre

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 384-385

Spontaneous chylothorax in a 2-year-old child

Manuel E Soto-Martinez, Vanessa Clifford, Tom Clarnette, Sarath Ranganathan and R John Massie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 385

Interferon-α-related microscopic polyangiitis in a patient with chronic hepatitis C infection

Stephen Y Oh, Brett E Jones and Suran L Fernando

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 385-386

Individual responsibility for reducing obesity: the unintended consequences of well intended messages

Jessica L Browne, Paul Zimmet and Jane Speight

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 386

Pharmacogenetic screening of Indigenous Australians

Joseph D Tucci

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 386-387 Free

Emergency department website not worth the wait

Alexander M Owen

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 387

Clinical focus

Painful numb hands

Marion A Simpson and Bruce Day

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 388-391 Free

Research

Changes in cystic fibrosis mortality in Australia, 1979–2005

David W Reid, C Leigh Blizzard, Dace M Shugg, Ceri Flowers, Catherine Cash and Hugh M Greville

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 392-395 Free

Cystic fibrosis in Australia, 2009: results from a data registry

Scott C Bell, Peter T P Bye, Peter J Cooper, A James Martin, Karen O McKay, Phillip J Robinson, Gerard F Ryan and Geoff C Sims

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 396-400 Free

Portrayal of psychiatric genetics in Australian print news media, 1996–2009

Alex Wilde, Catriona Bonfiglioli, Bettina Meiser, Philip B Mitchell and Peter R Schofield

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 401-404 Free

Improving paediatric asthma outcomes in primary health care: a randomised controlled trial

Smita Shah, Susan M Sawyer, Brett G Toelle, Craig M Mellis, Jennifer K Peat, Marivic Lagleva, Timothy P Usherwood and Christine R Jenkins

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 405-409 Free

A review of prevocational medical trainee assessment in New South Wales

Craig M Bingham and Roslyn Crampton

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 410-412 Free

Case reports

A 17-year-old girl with severe respiratory failure and circulatory shock

David Gutierrez, Louis Guy, Veera S Katikireddi, Jason P Butler and John Gowardman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 414-415 Free

Ethics and law

Should efforts to minimise DNA contamination of forensic swabs be standardised across Australia?

J Anne S Smith

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 416-419

Reflections

The Monte Carlo fallacy

Alexander M Owen

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 421

Lambeth doctors

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 422-422

William Kenneth Amedee Paver AM, BA, MB BS, FACD, FRACP, FFin, DDM

William Regan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 423 Free

Sidestep the pharma tango

P Ravi Shankar

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 423

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