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Volume 201 Issue 6

15 September 2014

Highlights from our archives

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In this issue

Doing what's necessary

Stephen Leeder

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Editorials

New psychoactive substances: reducing the harm caused by untested drugs and an unregulated market

Alex D Wodak

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 310-311 Free

In brief

From the NHMRC

Research translation and chronic illness

Davina Ghersi

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 312 Free

News

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Perspectives

Three ages of global health assistance

Henry Greenberg

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Clinical research in synthetic cannabinoids - do we need a national approach?

Michelle M Williams, Paul J Taylor, Colin B Page and Jennifer H Martin

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 317-319 Free

Vulnerability, hysteria and fear — conquering Ebola virus

Arinjay Banerjee, Siobhan M Mor, Jen Kok, Tania C Sorrell and Grant A Hill-Cawthorne

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 320-321 Free

Letters

Professor Bruce Hall and the ABC

Jeremy R Chapman, Geoffrey W McCaughan and Philip J O’Connell

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

Paul Dignam

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

Ian B Hickie, Patrick D McGorry and Helen Christensen

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 323

A land half won: pain and the modern world

Michael J Cousins and Lesley Brydon

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A land half won: pain and the modern world

Michael A Ashby

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 324

Research

Opioid substitution therapy protects against hepatitis C virus acquisition in people who inject drugs: the HITS-c study

Bethany White, Gregory J Dore, Andrew R Lloyd, William D Rawlinson and Lisa Maher

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 326-329 Free

Outcomes of surrogacy undertaken by Australians overseas

Martyn A Stafford-Bell, Sam G Everingham and Karin Hammarberg

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 330-333 Free

The high burden of inpatient diabetes mellitus: the Melbourne Public Hospitals Diabetes Inpatient Audit

Leon A Bach, Elif I Ekinci, Dennis Engler, Chris Gilfillan, P Shane Hamblin, Richard J MacIsaac, Georgia Soldatos, Cheryl Steele, Glenn M Ward and Sue Wyatt

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 334-338 Free

Markers of hepatitis B infection and immunity in patients attending Aboriginal community controlled health services

Mary E Harrod, Sophia Couzos, Dea Delaney-Thiele, Gregory J Dore, Belinda Hammond, Mark Saunders, Mary Belfrage, Sidney Williams, John M Kaldor and James Ward

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 339-342 Free

Hepatitis B notifications in a vaccinated cohort of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region

Emma Griffiths, Carole Reeve and Julia V Marley

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 343-346 Free

Ethics and law

Ethics series — 5

Broken doctor–patient relationships: why won't they listen?

Michael Jefford and John R Zalcberg

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Ethics series — 5

Legal issues when a doctor's relationship with a “difficult” patient breaks down

Loane L C Skene

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 350-351 Free

Don't be scared, be angry: the politics and ethics of Ebola

L Claire Hooker, Christopher Mayes, Chris Degeling, Gwendolyn L Gilbert and Ian H Kerridge

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Reflections

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

The Beginning of The End

Mahatia I M Minniecon

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Obituaries

John Prior MB BS, OAM

Michael C StJ Prior and Elizabeth Prior Jonson

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Obituaries

Les Hemingway MB BS

Verna Hemingway and Patricia A Hemingway

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 357 Free

Poem

Large interior in red : Matisse

Lyndon Walker

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): 351 Free

Careers

Ship of hope

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): C1 Free

Healing the (future) healers

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (6): C4 Free