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Volume 206 Issue 3

20 February 2017

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 102 Free

Perspectives

National Health Summit on Obesity calls for Australia to take action to stem the pandemic

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 106-107 Free

Stress and burnout in intensive care medicine: an Australian perspective

Nicholas Simpson and Cameron I Knott

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 107-108 Free

The obesity epidemic and sugar-sweetened beverages: a taxing time

Stephen Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 109-110

Reducing alcohol-related violence and other harm in Australia

Wayne D Hall and Megan Weier

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 111-112

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Streptococcus pyogenes pericarditis in a healthy adult: a common organism in an uncommon site

Lauren C Giudicatti, Gar-Hing Lee, Claire Italiano and Nik Stoyanov

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 113-114

Clinical skills

Murphy’s sign

Phillip L Jeans

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 115-116

Reflections

Poem

Poor doctor Cottingham

Sandra de Helen

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 116

Book/Media/App review

Understanding the language of intensive care physicians

Richard C Turner

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 117

Obituary

Bill Williams

Tilman A Ruff and Jim S Rossiter

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 117

Editorials

Auditing and standardising care for young people with diabetes: beginning a process to improve outcomes

Mark A Sperling

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 118-119 Free

Is wearable technology an activity motivator, or a fad that wears thin?

Jo Salmon and Nicola D Ridgers

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 119-120 Free

Research

The Australasian Diabetes Data Network: first national audit of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Helen Phelan, Helen Clapin, Loren Bruns, Fergus J Cameron, Andrew M Cotterill, Jennifer J Couper, Elizabeth A Davis, Kim C Donaghue, Craig A Jefferies, Bruce R King, Richard O Sinnott, Elaine B Tham, Jerry K Wales, Timothy W Jones and Maria E Craig

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 121-125 Free

Daily step count and the need for hospital care in subsequent years in a community-based sample of older Australians

Ben D Ewald, Christopher Oldmeadow and John R Attia

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 126-130 Free

Short report

Prolonged tumour growth after treatment of infantile haemangioma with propranolol

Roderic J Phillips, Catherine M Crock, Anthony J Penington and Philip S Bekhor

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 131

Narrative review

Mycobacterium chimaera and cardiac surgery

Andrew J Stewardson, Rhonda L Stuart, Allen C Cheng and Paul DR Johnson

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 132-135

Targeted therapy for chronic respiratory disease: a new paradigm

Peter G Gibson, Matthew J Peters and Claire E Wainwright

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 136-140

Letters

Guideline for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in adults — 2016

Anthony Rodgers, Clara K Chow, Rodney T Jackson, Anushka Patel and Tim Usherwood

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 141

Guideline for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in adults — 2016

Genevieve M Gabb, Arduino A Mangoni and Leonard Arnolda

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 141

Behavioural innovation is key to improving the health of one million Australians living with type 2 diabetes

Paul Zev Zimmet, Judi Moylan and Stephen Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 141-142

Behavioural innovation is key to improving the health of one million Australians living with type 2 diabetes

Jane Speight

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 142

Careers

Nation’s top honour for cornea researcher

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): Free