Volume 199, Issue 11 | The Medical Journal of Australia

In this issue

The issue about Christmas

Stephen Leeder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 715

Editorials

Mental health and immigration detention

Gillian Triggs

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 721-722 Free

Rural, urban: the real world for medical education

John D Hamilton

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 722-723

Treatment of snakebite in Australia: gathering the evidence

Mark Little

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 723-724

In brief

From The Cochrane Library

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 726

News

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 727

Perspectives

China and the organ trade

Jeremy R Chapman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 728

Suicide and self-harm prevention for people in immigration detention

Nicholas G Procter, Diego De Leo and Louise Newman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 730-732

Women Deliver 2013: taking a gender lens to the new global health and development agenda

Catherine R Bateman-Steel

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 733-734

How should we interpret hospital infection statistics?

Allen C Cheng, Emily Woolnough, Leon J Worth and David V Pilcher

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 735-736

Reports indicate that changes are needed to close the gap for Indigenous health

Lesley M Russell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 737-738 Free

Letters

Skin cancer detection by one click — are we any closer?

Monika Janda and H Peter Soyer

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 739

Children and clandestine drug laboratories: the unseen victims

Sharon L Hawkrigg and Peter M Winterton

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 739-741

Could a scheme for licensing smokers work in Australia?

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 741-742

Could a scheme for licensing smokers work in Australia?

Roger S Magnusson and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 742

Publicly funded homebirth in Australia: a review of maternal and neonatal outcomes over 6 years

Susan Ieraci and Amy B Tuteur

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 742

Publicly funded homebirth in Australia: a review of maternal and neonatal outcomes over 6 years

Donald M Clark

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 742-743

Publicly funded homebirth in Australia: a review of maternal and neonatal outcomes over 6 years

Christine Catling-Paull, Rebecca L Coddington, Maralyn J Foureur and Caroline S E Homer

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 743

Birthweight and fasting glucose and insulin levels: results from the Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study

Katherine A Thurber

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 743-744

Birthweight and fasting glucose and insulin levels: results from the Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study

Susan M Sayers and Gurmeet R Singh

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 744

Using SMS technology to verify the safety of seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine for pregnant women in real time

Annette K Regan, Christopher C Blyth and Paul V Effler

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 744-746

Systematic postmarketing surveillance needed for misused psychoactive pharmaceutical drugs

Tracy W Soh

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 746

Systematic postmarketing surveillance needed for misused psychoactive pharmaceutical drugs

Steven Moylan

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 746-747

Systematic postmarketing surveillance needed for misused psychoactive pharmaceutical drugs

Angela C Rintoul and Malcolm D H Dobbin

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 747

An audit of the use of ondansetron in general medical patients

Penelope J Cotton and Samer Q Noaman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 748-750

Inadvertent dispensing of Coumadin instead of Coversyl

Duncan P Carradice and Ellen L Maxwell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 750

Prevention of peripheral intravenous catheter-related bloodstream infections: the need for routine replacement

Peter J Collignon, Fiona J Kimber, Wendy D Beckingham and Jan L Roberts

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 750-751

Prevention of peripheral intravenous catheter-related bloodstream infections: the need for routine replacement

Rhonda L Stuart, M Lindsay Grayson and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 751

Prevention of peripheral intravenous catheter-related bloodstream infections: the need for routine replacement

Claire M Rickard, Joan Webster and E Geoffrey Playford

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 751-752

Time to reconsider steroid injections in the spine?

Nikolai Bogduk

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 752

Time to reconsider steroid injections in the spine?

Stephanie J Davies, Malcolm N Hogg and Eric J Visser

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 752-754 Free

Time to reconsider steroid injections in the spine?

Ian A Harris and Rachelle Buchbinder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 754 Free

Students as teachers

Joanna H-M Tai, Sumudu P Cooray and Jonathan K Kam

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 754-756

Students as teachers

Michael Pearson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 756

Students as teachers

Stephen A Tobin, David J Hillis and Julian A Smith

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 756-757

Students as teachers

Benjamin I Silbert, Stephanie J P Lam, Robert D Henderson and Fiona R Lake

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 757

Advising pregnant women to avoid alcohol

Tracy W Soh

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 757

For debate

(Re)introducing medicinal cannabis

Laurence E Mather, Evert R Rauwendaal, Vivienne L Moxham-Hall and Alex D Wodak

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 759-761 Free

Clinical focus

Snakebite in Australia: a practical approach to diagnosis and treatment

Geoffrey K Isbister, Simon G A Brown, Colin B Page, David L McCoubrie, Shaun L Greene and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 763-768 Free

Research

Carrying weapons and intent to harm among Victorian secondary school students in 1999 and 2009

Sheryl A Hemphill, Michelle A Tollit, Helena Romaniuk, Joanne Williams, John W Toumbourou, Lyndal Bond and George C Patton

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 769-771 Free

Coping support factors among Australians affected by terrorism: 2002 Bali bombing survivors speak

Garry J Stevens, Julie C Dunsmore, Kingsley E Agho, Melanie R Taylor, Alison L Jones and Beverley Raphael

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 772-775 Free

Use of Royal Darwin Hospital emergency department by immigration detainees in 2011

Adrienne K Deans, Clare J Boerma, James Fordyce, Mark De Souza, Didier J Palmer and Joshua S Davis

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 776-778 Free

Medical graduates becoming rural doctors: rural background versus extended rural placement

Tyler R Clark, Saul B Freedman, Amanda J Croft, Hazel E Dalton, Georgina M Luscombe, Anthony M Brown, David J Tiller and Michael S Frommer

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 779-782 Free

Four centuries of suicide in opera

Saxby A Pridmore, Stephane Auchincloss, Nerissa L Soh and Garry J Walter

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 783-786 Free

Systematic review

Rural general practice placements: alignment with the Australian Curriculum Framework for Junior Doctors

Louise Young, Sarah L Larkins, Tarun K Sen Gupta, Suzanne H McKenzie, Rebecca J Evans, Michael J Crowe and Elizabeth J Ware

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 787-791 Free

Reflections

Murra Mullangari — Pathways Alive and Well

Romlie Mokak

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 796

Best of Best

Poems

Christmas wrappings

Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 801 Free

Poems

Protons

Meir Weksler

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 801 Free

Obituaries

Peter Thomson MB BS, FFARACS

George Thomson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 802 Free

Obituaries

Thomas Trauer BA(Hons), PhD

James M Trauer

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 802 Free

Book reviews

Practising in PNG: pidgin, rugby and yaws

Robert B Black

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 803

Book reviews

Pointers for pandemic planning

Gina Samaan

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 803

Christmas crackers

Research

The hobbit — an unexpected deficiency

Joseph A Hopkinson and Nicholas S Hopkinson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 805-806 Free

Research

O come, all ye faithful: a study on church syncope

Biswadev Mitra, Andrew J Tagg, Elyse Fyfe and Gerard M O’Reilly

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 807-810 Free

Research

Are bald men more virile than their well thatched contemporaries?

Rodney D Sinclair, Dallas R English and Graham G Giles

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 811-812 Free

Research

The effect of a gold coin fine on C-reactive protein test ordering in a tertiary referral emergency department

James L Mallows

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 813-814 Free

Reflections

Harriet’s hats

Rosalind L Jeffree

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 815

Reflections

The Da Vinci Code and the alphabet of research

Dominic A Fitzgerald, David Isaacs and Steve Isaacs

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 816

Reflections

Why I don’t mind working nightshift anymore

Kristin J Boyle

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 817

Correction

Australia is continuing to make progress against cancer, but the regional and remote disadvantage remains

Michael D Coory, Tsun Ho and Susan J Jordan

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (11): 757 Free

Volume 199 Issue 11

In this issue

Editorials

In brief

Perspectives

Letters

For debate

Clinical focus

Research

Systematic review

Case reports

Reflections

Christmas crackers

Correction

Careers