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Volume 197 Issue 5

3 September 2012

Editor's choice

Truth and transparency in reproductive health

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 255 Free

Editorials

Bringing stillbirth out of the shadows for all women having a baby in Australia

Vicki J Flenady and David A Ellwood

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 256-257

Early medical abortion — available and safe

Caroline M de Costa and Michael Carrette

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 257-258 Free

Reproductive technologies: the alchemy of life

Michael J Davies and Eric A Haan

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 259-260

In brief

From the Cochrane Library

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 262

News

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 263

Perspectives

“Click first, care second” photography

Kara Burns and Suzanne Belton

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 265

Do available predictions of future medical workforce requirements provide a sensible basis for planning? Yes

Peter M Brooks

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 266

Do available predictions of future medical workforce requirements provide a sensible basis for planning? No

Richard B Murray

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 267 Free

New money for chronic diseases: can clinicians and entrepreneurs deliver outcomes eluding governments?

Jeanette E Ward

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 268-270

Letters

Tobacco plain packaging

Mike M Daube and Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 272

Is swaddling damaging our babies’ hips?

Nicole Williams, Bruce K Foster and Peter J Cundy

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 272

Legal clarification of “loss of chance of a better outcome” in Australia

Padraic J Grattan-Smith

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 273

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

Ann J Conway, Julie C Hamblin and David J Handelsman

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 273

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

Zoë Hyde

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 273-274

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

Jacqueline K Hewitt, Campbell Paul and Louise K Newman

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 274

Listening to what Indigenous people in remote communities say about alcohol restrictions and cannabis use: “Good thing that the alcohol’s gone, but the gunja has kept going”

Alan R Clough, Cape York Cannabis Project Team

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 275

The value of a support group for doctors with substance use disorders

Cheryl Wile and Kym Jenkins

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 275-276

Support for parents following stillbirth

Vicki J Flenady, Christine Carroll and Ros M Richardson

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 276

The Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction in a patient with leptospirosis: a foreseeable problem in managing spirochaete infections

Ryan Markham, Andrew Slack and John Gerrard

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 276-277

Research

Ethnicity and the risk of late-pregnancy stillbirth

Henry Drysdale, Sanjeeva Ranasinha, Amanda Kendall, Michelle Knight and Euan M Wallace

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 278-281 Free

Early medical abortion using low-dose mifepristone followed by buccal misoprostol: a large Australian observational study

Philip Goldstone, Jill Michelson and Eve Williamson

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 282-286 Free

Online chlamydia testing: an innovative approach that appeals to young people

Kellie S H Kwan, Edwina A Jachimowicz, Lisa Bastian, Lewis Marshall and Donna B Mak

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 287-290 Free

Australian national birthweight percentiles by sex and gestational age, 1998–2007

Timothy A Dobbins, Elizabeth A Sullivan, Christine L Roberts and Judy M Simpson

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 291-294 Free

Ethics and law

A no-fault compensation system for medical injury is long overdue

David Weisbrot and Kerry J Breen

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 296-298 Free

How best do we compensate for accidental medical injuries?

Julian L Rait

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 299-300

Reflections

University of Melbourne Medical School: reflections of a graduate

Sir Peter J Morris

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 301-302

Sleep tight

John M Worthington

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 1-1

Robert Austin Kenihan MB BS, FRCOG, FRACOG

John M Svigos

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 303 Free

Struan Birrell Robertson MB BS, FRCOG, FRANZCOG

James B Roche

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 303 Free

Correction

Emergency department overcrowding and mortality after the introduction of the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Shyan L Goh

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 277

Careers

A new generation

Nicole Mackee

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): C1 Free

Dr Christopher Smith

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): C2 Free

A well rounded career - Professor Alastair MacLennan reflects on his career in obstetrics and gynaecology

Interview by Sophie

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): C5 Free

Blokes and notes

Marge Overs

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): C6 Free

Doctor's orders

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): C7 Free