Volume 203, Issue 2 | The Medical Journal of Australia

Perspectives

State-based legal requirements for Schedule 8 prescriptions: why so complicated?

Andy C Hua, Finna Shen and Xiaoting Ge

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 64-66 Free

Fostering creativity and innovation in the health system: the role of doctors-in-training in biomedical innovation and entrepreneurship

Harris A Eyre, Timothy Lindsay, James A Churchill, Oliver Cronin and Arlen Meyers

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 68-70

Suppression clauses in university health research: case study of an Australian government contract negotiation

Kypros Kypri

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 72-74

Editorials

Non-invasive prenatal testing: the new era in reproductive medicine

Jan E Dickinson and Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 57-58 Free

The spectacular recent trials of urgent neurointervention for acute stroke: fuel for a revolution

Richard I Lindley and Christopher R Levi

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 58-60 Free

News

From the NHMRC

Recruitment into clinical trials — patient, recruit thyself

Gordon McGurk

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 62 Free

News, MJA Comments, Top 5 MJA articles, Top Insight articles

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 63 Free

Letters

Short report

Knowledge of non-invasive prenatal testing among pregnant women

Susannah J Maxwell, Jan E Dickinson and Peter O’Leary

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 76

Toxic epidermal necrolysis — an investigation to dye for?

Lloyd J Ridley and Sandhya Limaye

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 76-78

Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma syndrome

Nira Chinniah and Patricia Lowe

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 78-79

Heatwave and risk of heat-related burn injury in children in Western Australia

Lisa Martin, Sally A Burrows and Fiona M Wood

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 79-80

Eight challenges faced by general practitioners caring for patients after an acute coronary syndrome

Colin P Mendelsohn and Paul V Camp

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 80

Eight challenges faced by general practitioners caring for patients after an acute coronary syndrome

Peter L Thompson and Alistair W Vickery

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 80-81

Clinical focus

General practice after-hours incentive funding: a rationale for change

Amanda L Neil, Mark R Nelson, Tracy Richardson, Meghan Mann-Leonard and Andrew J Palmer

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 82-85 Free

Update on the diagnosis and management of gout

Kimberley Ting, Scott W Graf and Samuel L Whittle

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 86-88 Free

Guidance concerning the use of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

Michael C d’Emden, Jonathan E Shaw, Graham R Jones and N Wah Cheung

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 89-90 Free

Research

Geographical mobility of general practitioners in rural Australia

Matthew R McGrail and John S Humphreys

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 92-96 Free

Australian clinical trial activity and burden of disease: an analysis of registered trials in National Health Priority Areas

Jacquelyne Lam, Sarah J Lord, Kylie E Hunter, R John Simes, Thuyen Vu and Lisa M Askie

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 97-101 Free

Readmissions after stroke: linked data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry and hospital databases

Monique F Kilkenny, Helen M Dewey, Vijaya Sundararajan, Nadine E Andrew, Natasha Lannin, Craig S Anderson, Geoffrey A Donnan and Dominique A Cadilhac

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 102-106 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Febuxostat-associated rhabdomyolysis in chronic renal failure

Debasish Ghosh, Philippa M McGann, Timothy J Furlong and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 107-108 Free

Snapshot

Spinal gout mimicking osteomyelitis

Minnie Au and John Wood

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 113 Free

Ethics and law

Records access and management on closure of a medical practice

David J Carter

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 109-110 Free

Reflections

History

Medicine in a Roman city

Peter R Mayall

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 111-113

History

A French naval surgeon's account of disease, treatments and hospitals in colonial Sydney, 1873

Simon Barraclough and Arnaud Gallois

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 114-116

Obituary

Ronald Lawrie Huckstep CMG, MD, FRCS, FRACS

Jeremy Chapman

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 117

Poem

The Sick Room

Heather Taylor Johnson

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): 118 Free

Careers

Learning for life

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (2): C1 Free

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