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Volume 210 Issue 5

18 March 2019

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 196-197

Perspectives

Monitoring the missing half: why reporting adolescent births is insufficient

Jennifer L Marino and Susan M Sawyer

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 198-201

“Better health in the bush”: why we urgently need a national rural and remote health strategy

John Wakerman and John S Humphreys

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 202-203

Health's role in achieving Australia's Sustainable Development Goal commitments

Claire E Brolan, Nina Hall, Sandra Creamer, Ingrid Johnston and Jaya AR Dantas

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 204-206 Free

Ethics and law

Victoria's voluntary assisted dying law: clinical implementation as the next challenge

Ben P White, Lindy Willmott and Eliana Close

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 207-209

Medical education

Snapshot

An unexpected broken odontoid screw

Tsung‐Han Ho and Yaw‐Don Hsu

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 209

Editorial

Health care in a globalised world: is there more than one type of patient?

Pupalan Iyngkaran and Michael Jelinek

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 211-212

Research

The burden of pancreatic cancer in Australia attributable to smoking

Maria E Arriaga, Claire M Vajdic, Robert J MacInnis, Karen Canfell, Dianna J Magliano, Jonathan E Shaw, Julie E Byles, Graham G Giles, Anne W Taylor, Tiffany K Gill, Vasant Hirani, Robert G Cumming, R Paul Mitchell, Emily Banks, Julie Marker, Barbara‐Ann Adelstein and Maarit A Laaksonen

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 213-220 Free

Identifying the cultural heritage of patients during clinical handover and in hospital medical records

David JR Morgan, Tania Harris, Ron Gidgup and Martin Whitely

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 220-226 Free

Guideline summary

New guidelines from the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand for the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism

Huyen A Tran, Harry Gibbs, Eileen Merriman, Jennifer L Curnow, Laura Young, Ashwini Bennett, Chee Wee Tan, Sanjeev D Chunilal, Chris M Ward, Ross Baker and Harshal Nandurkar

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 227-235

Letters

Intercontinental translocation of latent multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis to Australia demonstrated by whole genome sequencing

Sanjay S Gautam, Greg Haug, Louise A Cooley, Micheál Mac Aogáin and Ronan F O'Toole

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 236

Hunting for a cause of painful diplopia

Benjamin Nham

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 237

Careers

New director at the Kirby Institute

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): C1 Free