Volume 202, Issue 9 | The Medical Journal of Australia

World No Tobacco Day reminds us of the desolating effects of smoking on health

Stephen Leeder

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 455 Free

Editorials

Global advocacy for controlling the tobacco industry

Robert Beaglehole and Ruth Bonita

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 459-461 Free

Rural and remote health: a progress report

John Wakerman

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 461-462 Free

News

From NPS MedicineWise

Proton pump inhibitors: too much of a good thing?

Lynn M Weekes

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 464 Free

MJA Comments, Top 5 MJA articles, Top Insight articles

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 464-465 Free

Perspectives

The future of electronic cigarette growth depends on youth uptake

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 467-468 Free

Securing a rural health workforce for the next generation of rural Australians

David M Lyle and Lesley M Barclay

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 469

Controversies and consensus regarding vitamin D deficiency in 2015: whom to test and whom to treat?

Paul Glendenning and Gerard Tse-Jiun Chew

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 470-471 Free

Joining the dots for the management of clinically severe obesity

John B Dixon

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 472-473

Letters

Enabling the success of academic health science centres in Australia: where is the leadership?

Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai and Bernhard T Baune

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 475

Can Australia's clinical practice guidelines be trusted?

Sandeep Reddy and Sally E Herring

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 475

Closing the dental divide

Leonard A Crocombe

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 475-477

Closing the dental divide

Lesley M Russell

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 477

Determinants of rural practice: positive interaction between rural background and rural undergraduate training

Mark H Arnold

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 477

Determinants of rural practice: positive interaction between rural background and rural undergraduate training

Geoffrey C Nicholson and Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 477-479

HCV-infected patients need access now to new direct-acting antiviral agents to avert liver-related deaths

William Sievert, Homie Razavi, Alexander Thompson, Amany Zekry, Gregory J Dore and Stuart Keith Roberts

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 479

For debate

A minimalist legislative solution to the problem of euthanasia

Paul A Komesaroff and Stephen Charles

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 480-481

Research

Strengthening primary health care: achieving health gains in a remote region of Australia

Carole Reeve, John Humphreys, John Wakerman, Maureen Carter, Vicki Carroll and David Reeve

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 483-487 Free

The use of financial incentives in Australian general practice

Milica Kecmanovic and Jane P Hall

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 488-491 Free

Asthma control in Australia: a cross-sectional web-based survey in a nationally representative population

Helen K Reddel, Susan M Sawyer, Peter W Everett, Paul V Flood and Matthew J Peters

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 492-496 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Warfarin-induced skin necrosis following recommencement of warfarin after perioperative Prothrombinex-VF

Ryan M O’Dempsey, Andrew MTL Choong, Amit Patel, Jason Miller, Philip J Walker and Allan Kruger

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 499-500 Free

Snapshot

Eagle Syndrome as a potential cause of Tapia Syndrome

Shereen Paramalingam and Yi J Kuok

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 491 Free

Snapshot

The trumpet's blown pupil

Chris Plummer and Adam Dangoor

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 497 Free

Reflections

Poem

ANIMAL STANCE: after Rosanna Warren

Liv Mammone

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 502 Free

Poem

Fresh for 24 hours

Jennifer Campbell

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): 502 Free

Careers

Biggest test of all

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 202 (9): C1 Free

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