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Volume 204 Issue 1

18 January 2016

Editorials

Lung cancer screening in Australia: progress or procrastination?

Fraser Brims, Annette McWilliams and Kwun Fong

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 4-5 Free

News

News briefs

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 1 Free

From Cochrane

Transforming Cochrane

Steve McDonald and Tari Turner

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 6 Free

Perspectives

Improving health literacy in refugee populations

Elisha Riggs, Jane Yelland, Philippa Duell-Piening and Stephanie J Brown

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 9-10 Free

Cost-effectiveness of screening for bowel cancer

Terry D Bolin, Melvyn G Korman, Fiona Nicholson, Lynne Pezzullo, Jeffrey Engelman, Katherine Collings and David Gilchrist Creelman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 11-12

Electronic cigarettes: what can we learn from the UK experience?

Colin P Mendelsohn

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 14-15 Free

Therapeutic drug safety for Indigenous Australians: how do we close the gap?

Tilenka Thynne and Genevieve M Gabb

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 16-17 Free

Short reports

Vitamin D testing: new targeted guidelines stem the overtesting tide

Steven C Boyages

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 18 Free

For debate

Pharmaceutical industry exposure in our hospitals: the final frontier

Jessica Dean, Erwin Loh and Justin J Coleman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 20-22 Free

Research

Are general practice characteristics predictors of good glycaemic control in patients with diabetes? A cross-sectional study

Adrian J Esterman, Tim Fountaine and Robyn McDermott

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 23 Free

Reporting of health practitioners by their treating practitioner under Australia’s national mandatory reporting law

Marie M Bismark, Matthew J Spittal, Jennifer M Morris and David M Studdert

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 24 Free

Natural history and long-term impact of dental fluorosis: a prospective cohort study

Loc G Do, Diep H Ha and A John Spencer

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 25 Free

“Sorry, I’m not a dentist”: perspectives of rural GPs on oral health in the bush

Tony Barnett, Ha Hoang, Jackie Stuart and Leonard Crocombe

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 26 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Not just a cosmetic problem: facial papules in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome

Ludi Ge and Patricia Lowe

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 28-29 Free

Lessons from practice

Fulminant liver failure and transplantation after use of dietary supplements

Rosemary J Smith, Christina Bertilone and Andrew G Robertson

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 30-32 Free

Ethics and law

Compensated transnational surrogacy in Australia: time for a comprehensive review

Ainsley J Newson

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 33-35 Free

Reflections

Poem

In the dinosaur exhibit

Katie Herman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 32

Women in medicine

Priscilla Kincaid-Smith

Judith Whitworth

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 37-38

Book review

Instructive medical humour

Charles S Guest

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 39

Poem

Ninth-floor transfer from an eight-floor hospital / Mrs. Pap

Jan Steckel

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 40

Careers

Documenting DV

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): Free

Around the universities

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): Free