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Volume 199 Issue 4

19 August 2013

In this issue

A three-word slogan: stop the bloat

Astika Kappagoda

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 223

Editorial

Can we avert a diabetes catastrophe in Australia?

Paul Z Zimmet

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 225-226

The history of insulin: the mystery of diabetes

Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 227

Hand transplantation

Warren C Breidenbach

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 228-229

In brief

From The Cochrane Library

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 230

News

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 231

Perspectives

Comprehensive primary health care and social determinants as top priorities

Fran E Baum

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 233

Better information to drive health investment decisions

Sally Redman and Robert W Wells

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 235

Time to reconsider steroid injections in the spine?

Ian A Harris and Rachelle Buchbinder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 237

Letters

Extending the medical workforce debate: let’s talk about self-sufficiency

Dev A Kevat and Shanti Raman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 238

Dabigatran — neurosurgical anathema?

Piers A W Thomas, Nicholas B Schaerf and Jeffrey V Rosenfeld

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 238-240

The Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program: where to from here?

Lynn M Weekes

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 240

The Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program: where to from here?

Helena C Britt and Graeme C Miller

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 240

Inequalities in bariatric surgery in Australia: findings from 49 364 obese participants in a prospective cohort study

Alessandra Doolan and Anne Trimmer

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 240-241

Consistently high incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis in children with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes

Carol M Willis, Jennifer A Batch and Mark Harris

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 241-242

Severe symptomatic hypocalcaemia following a single dose of denosumab

Jennifer M McLachlan, Gavin M Marx and Margaret Bridgman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 242-243

National guidelines for the management of absolute cardiovascular disease risk

Timothy Usherwood

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 243-244

National guidelines for the management of absolute cardiovascular disease risk

Robert D Grenfell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 244

Clinical focus

The rationale for combining GLP-1 receptor agonists with basal insulin

Neale D Cohen, Ralph Audehm, Elaine Pretorius, Joey Kaye, Leon H Chapman and Stephen Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 246-249 Free

For debate

Are we there yet? A journey of health reform in Australia

Christine C Bennett

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 251-255 Free

Trials and tribulations in the removal of dextropropoxyphene from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods

Nick A Buckley and Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 257-260 Free

Research

Impact on diabetes management of General Practice Management Plans, Team Care Arrangements and reviews

Leelani K Wickramasinghe, Peter Schattner, Marienne E Hibbert, Joanne C Enticott, Michael P Georgeff and Grant M Russell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 261-265 Free

Prevalence and perceptions of overweight and obesity in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young people in custody

Leigh Haysom, Devon Indig, Elizabeth Moore, Louise L Hardy and Paul A van den Dolder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 266-270 Free

Educational support for specialist international medical graduates in anaesthesia

Niall S Higgins, Kersi Taraporewalla, Sisira Edirippulige, Robert S Ware, Michael Steyn and Marcus O Watson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 272-274 Free

The influence of Australian eye banking practices on corneal graft survival

Miriam C Keane, Marie T Lowe, Douglas J Coster, Graeme A Pollock and Keryn A Williams

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 275-279 Free

Human rights trauma and the mental health of West Papuan refugees resettled in Australia

Susan Rees, Derrick M Silove, Kuowei Tay and Moses Kareth

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 280-283 Free

Case reports

First hand transplant procedure in Australia: outcome at 2 years

Karen M Dwyer, Angela R Webb, Hayley S Furniss, Katie E Anjou, Josephine M Gibbs-Dwyer, David B McCombe, Damien G Grinsell, Gillian F Dickinson, Richard A Williams, Prudence A Russell, David A Scott, Christopher Baker, Simon J Vogrin, Robyn G Langham, Helen I Opdam and Wayne A Morrison

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 285-287

Ethics and law

Research using autologous cord blood — time for a policy change

Michael X Han and Maria E Craig

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 288-299 Free

Ethical and legal issues raised by cord blood banking — the challenges of the new bioeconomy

Cameron L Stewart, Lorena C Aparicio and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 290-292 Free

Reflections

MJA Dr Eric Dark Creative Writing Prize - Joy to Mary

Leeann Carr-Brown

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 294

John Warwick Newman MB BS, FRCOG, FRACOG

James B Roche

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 295 Free

Careers

Research in practice

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): C1 Free

Fully wired hospital for Hervey Bay

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): C2 Free

No joke as neurologist shines

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): C4 Free

Supplement

Is a Vegetarian Diet Adequate?

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): Open Access