Volume 207, Issue 9 | The Medical Journal of Australia

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 366

Perspectives

The future of health care in Australia

The Hon Greg Hunt

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 369-370

Tackling antimicrobial resistance globally

Ruth Kelly and Sally C Davies

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 371-373

The kids are OK: it is discrimination not same-sex parents that harms children

Ken W Knight*, Sarah EM Stephenson*, Sue West*, Martin B Delatycki, Cheryl A Jones, Melissa H Little, George C Patton, Susan M Sawyer, S Rachel Skinner, Michelle M Telfer, Melissa Wake, Kathryn N North and Frank Oberklaid

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 374-375

Medical education

Snapshot

Sinusitis complicated by frontal bone osteomyelitis in a young patient

Roza Nastovska and Lyn-Li Lim

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 376

Ethics and law

The right to know versus the right to privacy: donor anonymity and the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Amendment Act 2016 (Vic)

Xavier Symons

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 377-378

Editorials

The changing face of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections

Alistair T Leanord and John Coia

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 379-380

Trends in meningococcal disease: challenges for vaccine control when disease is rare

Andrew J Pollard and Hannah Christensen

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 380-381

Research

Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal B disease in Australia, 1999–2015: priority populations for vaccination

Brett N Archer, Clayton K Chiu, Sanjay H Jayasinghe, Peter C Richmond, Jodie McVernon, Monica M Lahra, Ross M Andrews and Peter B McIntyre, on behalf of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) Meningococcal Working Party

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 382-387 Free

The increasing importance of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections

Jason W Agostino, John K Ferguson, Keith Eastwood and Martyn D Kirk

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 388-393 Free

Research letter

Melioidosis in Far North Queensland is not correlated with severe weather events

James D Stewart, Simon Smith and Josh Hanson

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 394 Free

Rates of hospitalisation for herpes zoster may warrant vaccinating Indigenous Australians under 70

Meru Sheel, Frank H Beard, Aditi Dey, Kristine Macartney and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 395-396 Free

Systematic review

Determining the contribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae to community-acquired pneumonia in Australia

J Kevin Yin, Sanjay H Jayasinghe, Patrick G Charles, Catherine King, Clayton K Chiu, Robert I Menzies and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 396-400

Narrative review

Reducing antibiotic prescribing in Australian general practice: time for a national strategy

Christopher B Del Mar, Anna Mae Scott, Paul P Glasziou, Tammy Hoffmann, Mieke L van Driel, Elaine Beller, Susan M Phillips and Jonathan Dartnell

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (9): 401-406

Careers

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