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Volume 201 Issue 8

20 October 2014

Highlights from our 1980 archives

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In this issue

The persistent challenge of inequality in Australia's health

Robyn Godding

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Editorials

A bowel cancer screening plan at last

Paul B Grogan and Ian N Olver

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In brief

From the CSIRO

Feeding a hungry microbiome: large bowel fermentation and human health

David Topping and Michael A Conlon

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News

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Perspectives

Conference report

Standing at the crossroads in HIV management: implications for primary care practice from the AIDS 2014 conference

Levinia Crooks, Michael R Kidd, Robert Lake, Edwina J Wright and Edward Reis

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Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma: an important risk-stratification tool

David E Gyorki and Michael A Henderson

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Rural health

Cancer health inequality persists in regional and remote Australia

Peter Fox and Adam Boyce

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Letters

Survival, mortality and morbidity outcomes after oesophagogastric cancer surgery in New South Wales, 2001–2008

Margaret Lee and Peter Gibbs

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Survival, mortality and morbidity outcomes after oesophagogastric cancer surgery in New South Wales, 2001–2008

Nicola Creighton, Ross C Smith and David C Currow

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Evaluating the costs and benefits of using combination therapies

Anthony Rodgers, Tracey-Lea Laba and Stephen Jan

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The cost-effectiveness of primary care for Indigenous Australians with diabetes living in remote Northern Territory communities

David J Whyatt, Alistair Vickery and Matthew Yap

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The cost-effectiveness of primary care for Indigenous Australians with diabetes living in remote Northern Territory communities

Susan L Thomas

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The hidden issues of anticipatory medications in community palliative care

Gerard F Gill

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Clinical focus

Goals of care: a clinical framework for limitation of medical treatment

Robyn L Thomas, Mohamed Y Zubair, Barbara Hayes and Michael A Ashby

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Research

Optimising the expansion of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Dayna R Cenin, D James B St John, Melissa J N Ledger, Terry Slevin and Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar

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Equivalence of outcomes for rural and metropolitan patients with metastatic colorectal cancer in South Australia

Christopher Hocking, Vy Tuong Broadbridge, Christos Karapetis, Carol Beeke, Robert Padbury, Guy J Maddern, David M Roder and Timothy J Price

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Use of advance directives by South Australians: results from the Health Omnibus Survey Spring 2012

Sandra L Bradley, Richard J Woodman, Jennifer J Tieman and Paddy A Phillips

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Hepatocellular carcinoma in Australia's Northern Territory: high incidence and poor outcome

Christopher Parker, Steven Y C Tong, Karen Dempsey, John Condon, Suresh K Sharma, John W C Chen, William Sievert and Joshua S Davis

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What factors are predictive of surgical resection and survival from localised non-small cell lung cancer?

David C Currow, Hui You, Sanchia Aranda, Brian C McCaughan, Stephen Morrell, Deborah F Baker, Richard Walton and David M Roder

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Case reports

Snapshot

Splenic rupture: a rare complication of infectious mononucleosis

Eugene Ng and Michelle Lee

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Lessons from practice

Age: HIV knows no boundary

Olivia C Smibert, Michelle Ananda-Rajah, Jessica O’Brien and Kumar Visvanathan

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Ethics and law

Evaluation of legal capacity by doctors and lawyers: the need for collaborative assessment

Kelly J Purser and Tuly Rosenfeld

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Consent, capacity and the right to say no

Hayden A Snow and Bill R Fleming

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Reflections

MJA Dr Eric Dark Creative Writing Prize

Out of the sky

David C Shelley Jones

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Book review

Succinct review of heart failure

Piyush M Srivastava

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Poem

Cancer

Alison Sweet

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Correction

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

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Careers

The joy of rural practice

Cate Swannell

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Intern crisis ramps up as figures fall short

Cate Swannell

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Balancing act

Cate Swannell

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