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Volume 200 Issue 8

5 May 2014

In this issue

Welcoming global progress in achieving heart health

Stephen Leeder

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Highlights from our archives

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Editorials

Australia's role in improving global cardiovascular health

Peter L Thompson

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Dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Robert M Parker

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 435-436 Free

In brief

From NPS MedicineWise

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News

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Perspectives

Prescribing statins: the real issues

Ian R Hamilton-Craig

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 440-441 Free

Post-election policy pointers

The First 1000 Days: catalysing equity outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Kerry Arabena

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 442 Free

Getting mental health reform back on track: a leadership challenge for the new Australian Government

Ian B Hickie, Patrick D McGorry, Tracey A Davenport, Sebastian P Rosenberg, John A Mendoza, Jane M Burns, Jonathan Nicholas and Helen Christensen

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 445-448 Free

Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and cardiovascular safety

Timothy M E Davis

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 450-451

Letters

headspace - Australia's innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting?

Tracey A Davenport, Elizabeth M Scott and Daniel F Hermens

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 452 Free

headspace - Australia's innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting?

Ian B Hickie, Elizabeth M Scott and Nicholas Glozier

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 452-454 Free

headspace - Australia's innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting?

Debra J Rickwood, Nic R Telford, Alexandra G Parker, Chris J Tanti and Patrick D McGorry

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 454 Free

National guidelines for the management of absolute cardiovascular disease risk

Christopher J O’Callaghan, Pei Rong and Min Y Goh

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 454-456

Psychotropics and challenging behaviour in people with an intellectual disability

Niki S Edwards, William Alexander and Allyson Mutch

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 456

Guidelines fall short on bariatric surgery

John McCallum

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 456-459

Guidelines fall short on bariatric surgery

John B Dixon

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 459-460

The case for CBT over antidepressants

P Jane Wilson

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 460

Register4: an Australian web-enabled resource created by the National Breast Cancer Foundation to facilitate and accelerate cancer research

John L Hopper, Carmel Apicella and Alison J Butt

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 460

A quack heard around the world

David Hughes

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 460-462

A quack heard around the world

John B Best

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 462

Research

Dementia prevalence and incidence among the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations of the Northern Territory

Shu Qin Li, Steven L Guthridge, Padmasiri Eswara Aratchige, Michael P Lowe, Zhiqiang Wang, Yuejen Zhao and Vicki Krause

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 465-469 Free

Population density predicts outcome from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Victoria, Australia

Ziad Nehme, Emily Andrew, Peter A Cameron, Janet E Bray, Stephen A Bernard, Ian T Meredith and Karen Smith

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 471-475 Free

Occupational injury risk among Australian paramedics: an analysis of national data

Brian J Maguire, Peter F O’Meara, Richard F Brightwell, Barbara J O’Neill and Gerard J Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 477-480 Free

A general medical short-stay unit is not more efficient than a traditional model of care

Patrick T Russell, Paul Hakendorf and Campbell H Thompson

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 482-484 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Rapid eye movement behaviour disorder

Richard G Weeks, Jason A D’Costa, Vinod Aiyappan, Ching Li Chai-Coetzer and Nick A Antic

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 487-488 Free

Notable Cases

A multisystem granulomatous disease: necrobiotic xanthogranuloma with hepatic involvement

Elita Santosaputri*, Elizabeth J Ellis*, Sureshkumar Nagiah, Anugrah Chrispal and Anthony Thomas

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 490-493 Free

Reflections

Best of Best

The answer was not a pineapple

John B Best

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Artificial heart

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 497

Corrections

The newer contraceptive pills and venous thromboembolism risk

Therese M Foran

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Careers

Prescribing the law

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): C1 Free

GP toolkit for domestic violence

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): C2 Free

Leaving a legacy

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): C4 Free