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Volume 199 Issue 7

7 October 2013

In this issue

It’s not unusual

Astika K Kappagoda and Ruth M Armstrong

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Editorials

WONCA inauguration speech 2013

Michael R Kidd

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 439

Novel insights into the pathology of upper gut symptoms: new syndromes, new diseases

Nicholas J Talley and Marjorie M Walker

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 440-441

The tale of out-of-pocket spending on health care

Jane P Hall

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 442-443

In brief

From the Consumers Health Forum of Australia

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 444

News

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 445

Perspectives

Retaining our right to regulate alcohol warnings

Paula L O’Brien and Deborah H Gleeson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 447 Free

The quality of Australian health journalism is important for public health

Christopher F C Jordens, Wendy L Lipworth and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 448-449 Free

Surgery for adult obstructive sleep apnoea

Stuart G MacKay and Edward M Weaver

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 450-451

Letters

Acute febrile respiratory infection symptoms in Australian Hajjis at risk of exposure to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Harunor Rashid, Osamah Barasheed and Robert Booy

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 453

Sexual harassment of Australian female general practitioners by patients

Peter A Bratuskins, Heather A McGarry and Stephen J Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 454

Australia’s dietary guidelines and the environmental impact of food “from paddock to plate”

Manny Noakes, Bradley G Ridoutt, Gilly Hendrie and Brian A Keating

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 456

Australia’s dietary guidelines and the environmental impact of food “from paddock to plate”

Bridget S Green, Anna K Farmery and Colin D Buxton

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 456

Australia’s dietary guidelines and the environmental impact of food “from paddock to plate”

Caleb Gardner

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 456-457

Australia’s dietary guidelines and the environmental impact of food “from paddock to plate”

Alexandra McManus

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 457

Australia’s dietary guidelines and the environmental impact of food “from paddock to plate”

Linda A Selvey

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 457-459

Salicylate elimination diets in children: is food restriction supported by the evidence?

Richard F Heller, C Ann Heller and Jane Heller

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 459

Salicylate elimination diets in children: is food restriction supported by the evidence?

Joan C Breakey

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 459-460

Salicylate elimination diets in children: is food restriction supported by the evidence?

Paul E A Gray*

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 460

Trends in general practice services in two cohorts of Australian children between 2003–2004  and 2010–2011

Lixin Ou, Jack Chen and Kenneth Hillman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 460-461

Emergence of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 15A after the introduction of the conjugate vaccine in Victoria

Janet E Strachan, Stacey L Rowe, Eileen M Dunne and Geoffrey G Hogg

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 461-463

Utility of reports and routine correspondence from the National HPV Vaccination Program Register

Julia M L Brotherton, Michael Batchelor and Karen Winch

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 463

Treatment outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous inmates with hepatitis C in New South Wales prisons

Jeffrey J Post, Andrew R Lloyd and Denise Monkley

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 464

The look of leptospirosis in Victoria — recent trends

Jason A Trubiano, Brett A Sutton and Lucinda J Franklin

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 465

Clinical focus

Treatment failure in atopic dermatitis as a result of parental health belief

Saxon D Smith, Amanda M Stephens, Julia C Werren and Gayle O Fischer

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 467-469 Free

For debate

The economic evaluation of personalised oncology medicines: ethical challenges

Jan R R Lewis, Wendy L Lipworth, Ian H Kerridge and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 471-473 Free

Research

Can’t escape it: the out-of-pocket cost of health care in Australia

Farhat Yusuf and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 475-478 Free

Sickness certification of workers compensation claimants by general practitioners in Victoria, 2003–2010

Alex Collie, Rasa Ruseckaite, Bianca Brijnath, Agnieszka A Kosny and Danielle Mazza

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 480-483 Free

General practitioners’ use of different cardiovascular risk assessment strategies: a qualitative study

Carissa Bonner, Jesse Jansen, Shannon McKinn, Les Irwig, Jenny Doust, Paul Glasziou, Andrew Hayen and Kirsten McCaffery

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 485-489 Free

Mobile garbage bins and hand injuries in older people

Rui Niu, Adam B Woodbridge, Belinda J Smith, Stephen J Ruff and Richard D Lawson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 491-492 Free

Case reports

Kawasaki disease complicated by subluxation of cervical vertebrae (Grisel syndrome)

Anna J Wood, Davinder Singh-Grewal, Sukanya De and Hasantha Gunasekera

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 494-496 Free

Khat-associated hepatitis

Malcolm P Forbes, Ashok S Raj, Jennifer Martin, Guy Lampe and Elizabeth E Powell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 498-499 Free

Reflections

Australian Medical Students’ Association Global Health Essay Competition — Global climate change, geo-engineering and human health

Costa S Boyages

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 501-502 Free

MJA Dr Eric Dark Creative Writing Prize

If you want to have joy, do

Sandra F Armstrong

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 505-506

Elegy to a goldfish

Matthew Dickman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 509 Free

John Andrew Pickering OAM, MB ChB, GradDipHA, FRACGP, FRACMA

Alan M Wolff

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 511 Free

Neat model for ethical problem solving

Peter W Saul

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 511

Careers

Teaching in practice

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): C1 Free

Taking medicine to extremes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): C2 Free

Impeccable pedigree

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): C4 Free

Supplement

Building healthy bones throughout life: an evidence-informed strategy to prevent osteoporosis in Australia

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): Open Access