Volume 199, Issue 6 | The Medical Journal of Australia

In this issue

Australia’s leadership in developing goals for sustainable global health

Stephen Leeder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 377

Editorials

Doctors, death certificates and reporting to coroners — room for improvement

Stephen M Cordner

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 379-380

Can professionalism be taught?

Ian M Symonds and Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 380-381

Pyoderma gangrenosum — a frequently misdiagnosed skin condition

Alan J Cooper and Frank C Powell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 382-383

In brief

From the NHMRC

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 384

News

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 385

Perspectives

Legislate for patient-delivered partner therapy for chlamydia

Sarah E Huffam, Katherine M Brown, Marcus Y Chen and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 387 Free

The after-life of drugs: a responsible care initiative for reducing their environmental impact

Peter M J Fisher, David A Smith and Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 388-390 Free

Letters

Further erosion of equality and job mobility of Australian junior doctors

Dev A S Kevat and Fiona J Lander

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 391

Junior doctors leading hospital improvement

Nicholas M Cheng and Ned W R Douglas

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 391-392

Risk of measles transmission on aeroplanes: Australian experience 2007–2011

Stephen B Lambert and Frank H Beard

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 392 Free

Modifying the gluten-free threshold for foods: first do no harm

Geoffrey M Forbes

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 393 Free

Diet and nutrition: the folly of the reductionist approach

B E Christopher Nordin

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 393-394

Vitamin D and health in adults in Australia and New Zealand

Bettina Douglas

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 394

Vitamin D and health in adults in Australia and New Zealand

Caryl A Nowson and Rebecca S Mason

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 394

Trends in amphetamine-related harms in Victoria

Cherie Heilbronn, Caroline X Gao, Belinda Lloyd, Karen Smith, David Best and Dan I Lubman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 395

Sharper tools — chronic conditions and avoidable admission

Jo M Longman, Megan E Passey and Dan P Ewald

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 395-396

Attitudes of a private hospital community to medical student teaching

Geoffrey L Metz, John C Catford and Alan Kinkade

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 396

Clinical focus

Clinical transfusion practice update: haemovigilance, complications, patient blood management and national standards

Sunelle Engelbrecht, Erica M Wood and Merrole F Cole-Sinclair

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 397-401 Free

Research

Non-reporting of reportable deaths to the coroner: when in doubt, report

Sandra L Neate, Lyndal C Bugeja, George A Jelinek, Heather M Spooner, Luke Ding and David L Ranson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 402-405 Free

“They liked it if you said you cried”: how medical students perceive the teaching of professionalism

Hudson H Birden and Tim Usherwood

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 406-409 Free

Asbestos exposure during home renovation in New South Wales

Eun-Kee Park, Deborah H Yates, Rebecca A Hyland and Anthony R Johnson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 410-413 Free

Cost savings from a telemedicine model of care in northern Queensland, Australia

Darshit A Thaker, Richard Monypenny, Ian Olver and Sabe Sabesan

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 414-417 Free

Quad bike related injury in Victoria, Australia

Angela J Clapperton, Emily L Herde and Tony Lower

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 418-422 Free

Case reports

First report of probable neurobrucellosis in Australia

Wendy J Munckhof, Amy V Jennison, John R Bates and Ian Gassiep

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 423-425 Free

Snapshot

Acute onset of lower limb weakness, sphincter dysfunction and sensory disturbance in an older woman

Laura Lamprell and David G Johnson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 427

Reflections

MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize — Utilising humanism to (re)fortify global health leadership

Nilofer K Habibullah

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 426-427 Free

Correction

Stent insertion for palliation of advanced oesophageal carcinoma symptoms by level of socioeconomic disadvantage in urban New South Wales

Jason P Bentley, David E Goldsbury, Guy D Eslick, Michael R Cox and Dianne L O'Connell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): 392

Careers

Marketing referrals

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): C1 Free

Medication advice for older Aussies

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (6): C2 Free

Doyen of diabetes