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Volume 204 Issue 2

1 February 2016

Editorials

Not just loading and age: the dynamics of osteoarthritis, obesity and inflammation

Flavia M Cicuttini and Anita E Wluka

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 47 Free

Asbestos exposure: challenges for Australian clinicians

Arthur W (Bill) Musk, Nicholas H de Klerk and Anna K Nowak

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 48-49 Free

News

From the CSIRO

Malaria detection using breath biomarkers

Amalia Z Berna, James S McCarthy and Stephen C Trowell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 50

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 51

Research news

Using a multidisciplinary approach to combat the burden of asbestos-related disease

Nico van Zandwijk, Matthew Soeberg and Glen Reid

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 52 Free

Perspectives

Developing competence in biostatistics and research methodology during medical specialty training

Sandra L Turner and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 54-56

Short reports

A broad perspective on anatomy education: celebrating teaching diversity and innovations

Paul G McMenamin, Norman Eizenberg, Anthony Buzzard, Quentin Fogg and Michelle Lazarus

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 57

A multidisciplinary renal genetics clinic improves patient diagnosis

Andrew Mallett, Lindsay F Fowles, Julie McGaughran, Helen Healy and Chirag Patel

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 58-59

How severe was the 2015 influenza season in Australia?

James E Fielding, Annette K Regan, Craig B Dalton, Monique B-N Chilver and Sheena G Sullivan

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 60-61 Free

Clinical focus

Management of pregnancy in women with rheumatoid arthritis

Gene-Siew Ngian, Andrew M Briggs, Ilana N Ackerman and Sharon Van Doornum

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 62-63

Ten years of publicly funded biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in Australia

Ashley M Hopkins, Susanna M Proudman, Agnes I Vitry, Michael J Sorich, Leslie G Cleland and Michael D Wiese

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 64-68

For debate

Inappropriate care in medicine

Susannah Sherlock

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 70 Free

Vertebroplasty is not a do-not-do treatment

William A Clark

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 71 Free

Acting on potentially inappropriate care

Stephen J Duckett, Peter Breadon and Danielle Romanes

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 72 Free

Research

SEPSIS KILLS: early intervention saves lives

Anthony R Burrell, Mary-Louise McLaws, Mary Fullick, Rosemary B Sullivan and Doungkamol Sindhusake

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 73 Free

A survey of Sydney general practitioners’ management of patients with chronic hepatitis B

Zeina Najjar, Leena Gupta, Janice Pritchard-Jones, Simone I Strasser, Miriam T Levy, Siaw-Teng Liaw and Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 74 Free

Timeliness of lung cancer care in Victoria: a retrospective cohort study

Sue M Evans, Arul Earnest, Wendy Bower, Meera Senthuren, Peta McLaughlin and Rob Stirling

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 75 Free

Influenza vaccine effectiveness in general practice and in hospital patients in Victoria, 2011–2013

Heath A Kelly, Courtney Lane and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 76 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Repeat exposure to active tuberculosis and risk of re-infection

Claudia C Dobler, Roujan Chidiac, Jonathan P Williamson and Peter J Jelfs

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 77-78

Lessons from practice

A case of bilateral endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis from Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteraemia

Jeewaka E Mohotti, Shuang Q Chan and Fumitaka Nonaka

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 79-80

Snapshot

Severe ulcerative herpes zoster

Andrew DK Nguyen and Gabriela Strey

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 61

Ethics and law

Conclaves and concurrent expert evidence: a positive development in Australian legal practice?

Bill Madden and Tina Cockburn

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 82-83

Reflections

Poem

When lights flash, bridge is up

Shaindel Beers

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 84

Careers

Better, all round

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): Free

Around the universities

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): Free