Volume 202, Issue 11 | The Medical Journal of Australia

News

Health professionals feature in honours

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 549 Free

From the NHMRC

NHMRC initiatives to improve access to research outputs and findings

Wee-Ming Boon and Fiona Leves

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 558 Free

MJA Comments, Top 5 MJA articles, Top Insight articles

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 559 Free

Editorials

The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014

Gillian Triggs

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 553-555 Free

Let the children go — advocacy for children in detention by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Nicholas J Talley and Karen J Zwi

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 555-557 Free

Perspectives

Call for Australia's ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

John-Paul Sanggaran and Deborah Zion

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 561-562 Free

Listen, hear, act: challenging medicine's culture of bad behaviour

Kimberley D Ivory

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 563-564

BCG for the prevention of food allergy — exploring a new use for an old vaccine

Nicholas Kiraly, Katrina J Allen and Nigel Curtis

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 565-566

The value of clinical ethics support in Australian health care

Ainsley J Newson

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 568-569 Free

Letters

Curing cancer — child's play

Catherine H Cole

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 570

Knowing when to stop antibiotic therapy

Angus J Thompson, Ivan Bindoff and Andrew C Stafford

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 570

Knowing when to stop antibiotic therapy

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 570-572

Antenatal care for asylum seekers

Hasantha Gunasekera and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 572

Communicating the health effects of air pollution

Ben D Ewald

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 572-574

Imported gluten-free foods: free of gluten?

Geoffrey M Forbes

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 574

Medical negligence system must change

Kerry J Breen and David Weisbrot

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 574-575

Death due to intravenous use of α-pyrrolidinopentiophenone

Simon M Holliday and Huy A Tran

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 575

Clinical focus

Guidelines

Consensus guidelines for the investigation and management of encephalitis

Philip N Britton, Keith Eastwood, Bruce J Brew, Yusuf Nagree and Cheryl A Jones

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 576-577 Free

For debate

Government action on diabetes prevention: time to try something new

Jenny C Kaldor, Roger S Magnusson and Stephen Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 578-580 Free

Research

Cross border hospital use: analysis using data linkage across four Australian states

Katrina Spilsbury, Diana Rosman, Janine Alan, James H Boyd, Anna M Ferrante and James B Semmens

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 582-586 Free

Part of the fabric and mostly right: an ethnography of ethics in clinical practice

Evan Doran, Jennifer Fleming, Christopher Jordens, Cameron L Stewart, Julie Letts and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 587-590 Free

The crux of the matter: Did the ABC's Catalyst program change statin use in Australia?

Andrea L Schaffer, Nicholas A Buckley, Timothy A Dobbins, Emily Banks and Sallie-Anne Pearson

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 591-594 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Successful treatment of ACE inhibitor-induced angioedema with icatibant, a bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist

Phillippa A Pucar, Michael O’Sullivan, Adrian Goudie, Timothy Marr and Anna Brusch

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 596-597 Free

Snapshot

Bilateral upper lobe opacification

Talal Hilal

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 586 Free

Reflections

The pouch of Douglas

Tracy Sorensen

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 598 Free

Obituary

John Lachlan Gollan MB BS, MD, PhD, FRACP, FRCP, FACP

John C H Morris

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 599 Free

Poem

Murder of a Prisoner of War, 1943

James Walton

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): 564

Careers

Mercy mission to Nepal

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): C1 Free

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