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Volume 204 Issue 6

4 April 2016

News

From the NHMRC

Ethical issues with xenotransplantation clinical trials

Ian N Olver

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 212

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 213

Editorials

Resistance sans frontières: containing antimicrobial resistance nationally and globally

John Turnidge, Chris Baggoley, Mark Schipp and Robyn Martin

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 207-208 Free

Improving health outcomes for linguistically diverse patients

Christine B Phillips

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 209-210

Perspectives

Affordable access to innovative cancer medicines — don’t forget the prices

Narcyz Ghinea and Wendy Lipworth

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 214-215

Closing the million patient gap of uncontrolled asthma

Tunn Ren Tay, Michael J Abramson and Mark Hew

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 216-217 Free

Alcohol and tax — time for real reform

Mike Daube and Julia Stafford

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 218-219 Free

Time to raise the minimum purchasing age for tobacco in Australia

Roger S Magnusson

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 220-221

Australia’s health: being accountable for prevention

A Rob Moodie, Penny Tolhurst and Jane E Martin

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 223-225 Free

Clinical focus

Antenatal haemoglobinopathy screening in Australia

Yi Ling Tan and Giselle Kidson-Gerber

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 226-230

For debate

Serious adverse event reporting in investigator-initiated clinical trials

Sophie Wallace, Paul S Myles, Nikolajs Zeps and John R Zalcberg

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 231-233 Free

Primary Health Networks and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Sophia Couzos, Dea Delaney-Thiele and Priscilla Page

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 234-237

Research

Cord blood vitamin D and the risk of acute lower respiratory infection in Indigenous infants in the Northern Territory

Michael J Binks, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Robyn Marsh, Anne B Chang and Ross M Andrews

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 238 Free

English as a second language and outcomes of patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes: results from the CONCORDANCE registry

Craig P Juergens, Bilyana Dabin, John K French, Leonard Kritharides, Karice Hyun, Jens Kilian, Derek PB Chew and David Brieger

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 239 Free

Increase in late diagnosed developmental dysplasia of the hip in South Australia: risk factors, proposed solutions

Kathrin Studer, Nicole Williams, Georgia Antoniou, Catherine Gibson, Heather Scott, Wendy K Scheil, Bruce K Foster and Peter J Cundy

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 240 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Pitfalls of open-access sleep medicine: a case of missed congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

Claire M Ellender and Craig A Hukins

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 241-242

Reflections

Book/Media/App reviews

A moving account of resilience and love

Marion G Carey

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 243

Poem

The daily coracle

Gina Mercer

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 243

Careers

Homecoming

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): Free

Around the universities and research institutes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): Free

Conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): Free