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Volume 201 Issue 10

17 November 2014

Highlights from our 1940 archives

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In this issue

Graduating to better health: “Schoolies” without hangovers

Tania Janusic

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Editorials

Safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccines

Heath A Kelly

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The health of “emerging adults” in Australia: freedom, risk and rites of passage

Melissa S-L Kang

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In brief

From the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Tobacco, alcohol and drug use: the good and the bad news

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News

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Perspectives

Rural health

Rural patients travel for health care

Linda J Samera

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Rural health

Getting the levers right: a way forward for rural medicine

Ian J Kamerman

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Medical tourism raises questions that highlight the need for care and caution

David Greenfield and Marjorie Pawsey

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Conference report — Rural health

The 4th Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium

Gordon N F Gregory

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Letters

Should the legal age for buying alcohol be raised to 21 years?

Jason M Lindo and Peter Siminski

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Should the legal age for buying alcohol be raised to 21 years?

John W Toumbourou, Kypros Kypri and Sandra C Jones

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Anomalous warning labels on alcoholic energy drink cans

Genevieve A Cowie and Bruce Bolam

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Leaving judgement at the door

Graham Neilsen and Jocelyn Klug

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The health impacts of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games: proactive planning is required, but who will do this?

Patrick Harris

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Rural clinical school outcomes: what is success and how long do we wait for it?

David Garne, Mark Wilson and Ian G Wilson

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Rural clinical school outcomes: what is success and how long do we wait for it?

William R Adam, Julian R Wright and Geoffrey J McColl

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students' and doctors' career intentions

Dana R-M L Slape and Angela E Carberry

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Newborn bloodspot screening: setting the Australian national policy agenda

Craig A White and Karla Lister

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Clinical focus

Cytomegalovirus disease in immunocompetent adults

Daniel Lancini, Helen M Faddy, Robert Flower and Chris Hogan

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For debate

Diabetes series — 1

The global response to diabetes: action or apathy?

Ruth Colagiuri, Katie Dain and Judi Moylan

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Research

Survey of alcohol-related presentations to Australasian emergency departments

Diana Egerton-Warburton, Andrew Gosbell, Angela Wadsworth, Daniel M Fatovich and Drew B Richardson

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“After-hours” staffing of trauma centres and outcomes among patients presenting with acute traumatic coagulopathy

Biswadev Mitra, Peter A Cameron, Mark C B Fitzgerald, Stephen Bernard, John Moloney, Dinesh Varma, Huyen Tran and Martin Keogh

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The effect of obesity on pregnancy outcomes among Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous women

Aaron P Thrift and Leonie K Callaway

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The safety of seasonal influenza vaccines in Australian children in 2013

Nicholas J Wood, Chris C Blyth, Gabriela A Willis, Peter Richmond, Michael S Gold, Jim P Buttery, Nigel Crawford, Michael Crampton, J Kevin Yin, Maria Yui Kwan Chow and Kristine Macartney

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Case reports

Death due to intravenous use of α-pyrrolidinopentiophenone

Kate Sellors, Alison Jones and Betty Chan

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Lessons from practic

Measles: an important cause of fever and rash in a returned traveller

G Khai Lin Huang, Katherine A Bond, Nicholas H Hewitt and Paul D R Johnson

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Ethics and law

Collaboration between the coroner and emergency physicians: efforts to improve outcomes from aortic dissection

George A Jelinek, Lyndal C Bugeja, Paresa A Spanos, Sandra L Neate, Ruth L Bergman and David L Ranson

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Reflections

Medically assisted circumcision: a safer option for initiation rites

Clement Manineng and David MacLaren

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Let children cry

Jon N Jureidini

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Book review

Living well with multiple sclerosis

Barbara T Hannon

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Obituary

Robert James Furlong McInerney

James B Roche

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Corrections

Antibiotic prescribing practice in residential aged care facilities — health care providers' perspectives

Ching Jou Lim, Megan W-L Kwong, Rhonda L Stuart, Kirsty L Buising, N Deborah Friedman, Noleen J Bennett, Allen C Cheng, Anton Y Peleg, Caroline Marshall and David C M Kong

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Careers

The guide by the side

Cate Swannell

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Blue sky thinking

Cate Swannell

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Supplement

Modern challenges in acute coronary syndrome

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (10): Open Access