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Volume 196 Issue 9

21 May 2012

Editor's choice

Promoting youth mental health

Tania Janusic

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 545 Free

Editorial

Internet pornography and adolescent health

Rebecca J Guy, George C Patton and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 546-547

Does football cause brain damage?

Andrew H Kaye and Paul McCrory

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 547-549 Free

Evolving psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM: hasten slowly

Paul B Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 549-550

In brief

From the CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 552

News

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 553

Perspectives

When less can mean more

Ray N Moynihan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 555

Is it appropriate to treat people at high-risk of psychosis before first onset - Yes

Alison R Yung

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 556

Is it appropriate to treat people at high-risk of psychosis before first onset? - No

David J Castle

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 557

Holding a stillborn baby: does the existing evidence help us provide guidance?

Kelly A Cunningham

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 558-560

The need to tackle concussion in Australian football codes

Frederic Gilbert and Bradley J Partridge

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 561-563 Free

Letters

Tertiary education institutions should not offer pseudoscientific medical courses

Jeffery D Hughes and Liesl A Blott

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 566

“Anywhere to palliative care” — a fast-track pathway from the emergency department to palliative care

Sonia L Fullerton, David J Kenner and Maria T Tucker

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 566

Clinical pathways and guidelines: a plea for professional independence

Paul M McGurgan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 567

A big-picture approach to big people

Garry J Egger

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 567

Why exercise is an important component of risk reduction in obesity management

Rosemary A McGinnes and Judy A Lowthian

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 567-568

Designing payments for GPs to improve the quality of diabetes care

Tim Fountaine, Jonathan E Shaw and Paul Z Zimmet

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 568

Clinical focus

Mindfulness training: an adjunctive role in the management of chronic illness?

Kaveh Monshat and David J Castle

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 569-571 Free

Sudden limb weakness

Bill O’Brien, Mark W Parsons and Craig S Anderson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 572-577 Free

Research

Hormone treatment of gender identity disorder in a cohort of children and adolescents

Jacqueline K Hewitt, Campbell Paul, Porpavai Kasiannan, Sonia R Grover, Louise K Newman and Garry L Warne

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 578-581 Free

Splenectomy sequelae: an analysis of infectious outcomes among adults in Victoria

Claire Dendle, Vijaya Sundararajan, Tim Spelman, Damien Jolley and Ian Woolley

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 582-586 Free

Splenectomy and sepsis

David F M Looke and Naomi J Runnegar

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 587 Free

Sporotrichosis (Sporothrix schenckii infection) in the New South Wales mid-north coast, 2000–2010

Shobini Sivagnanam, Aiveen M Bannan, Sharon C-A Chen and Anna P Ralph

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 588-590 Free

Ethics and law

Out of sight, out of mind: making involuntary community treatment visible in the mental health system

Edwina M Light, Ian H Kerridge, Christopher J Ryan and Michael D Robertson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 591-593 Free

Medical education

Simulation in clinical teaching and learning

Jennifer M Weller, Debra Nestel, Stuart D Marshall, Peter M Brooks and Jennifer J Conn

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 594 Free

Reflections

Does it take too long to become a doctor?

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 595-597

Healed, or hungry? A personal perspective on the Gawler program

Tanya L Hall

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 598-599

Careers

The earliest intervention

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): C1 Free

Dr Gillian Sanzone

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): C2 Free

Professor Bruce Tonge

Interview by Sophie

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): C5 Free

Telehealth: should you take the plunge?

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): C6 Free

Conceiving a better world

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): C8 Free