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Volume 204 Issue 8

2 May 2016

The changing face of the MJA

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 283 Free

Editorials

The role of neurosurgery in the treatment of chronic pain

Peter J Teddy

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 287-288 Free

Futility and utility

Ian Maddocks

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 289 Free

Improving quality in prostate cancer

Paul S Craft

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 290 Free

Lost in translation: the gap between what we know and what we do about cardiovascular disease

Clara K Chow and Anthony Rodgers

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 291-292 Free

News

From The Cochrane Library

Tackling smoking, childhood obesity and back pain: it’s not for want of trying

Steve McDonald and Tari Turner

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 293

Perspectives

Forsaking cures for cancer: why are we discarding the tumour biospecimens of most patients?

Craig Gedye and Jennifer Fleming

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 297-298

Surgical management of low back pain

Leigh Atkinson and Andrew Zacest

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 299-300 Free

Short reports

Kitesurfing — playing with water or with fire?

Steven JG Leeuwerke, Manimaran Sinnathamby and René Zellweger

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 301

Ladder-related injuries in New South Wales

Jenny Miu, Michael M Dinh, Kate Curtis and Zsolt J Balogh

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 302

Increasing incidence of type 2 diabetes in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Western Australia, 1990–2012

Aveni Haynes, Rachelle Kalic, Matthew Cooper, Jacqueline K Hewitt and Elizabeth Ann Davis

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 303

Clinical focus

Using opioids in general practice for chronic non-cancer pain: an overview of current evidence

David C Currow, Jane Phillips and Katherine Clark

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 305-309 Free

What is new in the surgical management and prevention of breast cancer?

Andrew J Spillane

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 311-314 Free

Guidelines

Acute pain management: scientific evidence, fourth edition, 2015

Stephan A Schug, Greta M Palmer, David A Scott, Richard Halliwell and Jane Trinca

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 315-317 Free

Research

What does “futility” mean? An empirical study of doctors’ perceptions

Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Eliana Close, Nicole Shepherd, Cindy Gallois, Malcolm H Parker, Sarah Winch, Nicholas Graves and Leonie K Callaway

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 318 Free

Quality of care achievements of the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry–Victoria

Fanny Sampurno, Arul Earnest, Patabendi B Kumari, Jeremy L Millar, Ian D Davis, Declan G Murphy, Mark Frydenberg, Paul A Kearns and Sue M Evans

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 319 Free

Absolute risk of cardiovascular disease events, and blood pressure- and lipid-lowering therapy in Australia

Emily Banks, Simon R Crouch, Rosemary J Korda, Bill Stavreski, Karen Page, Katherine A Thurber and Robert Grenfell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 320 Free

Reflections

Obituary

Alan Frederick Bromwich, OBE, KStJ, RFD, MB BS, FRCS, FRACS

John H Pearn

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 322

Poem

The shame of things to come

Viktor Oskarsson

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 323

Correction

Instructive medical humour

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 303

Socio-demographic and structural barriers to being tested for chlamydia in general practice

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 303

Careers

Up, up and away

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): Free

Around the universities and research institutes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): Free