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Accidental ingestion of plastic from takeaway containers — food for thought

Athanasios Sioulas, Dimitrios Polymeros, Ioannis S Papanikolaou and Konstantinos Triantafyllou

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 580

Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care

John D Paull

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 584

Change of HbA1c reporting to the new SI units

Graham R D Jones, George Barker, Ian Goodall, Hans-Gerhard Schneider, Mark D S Shephard and Stephen M Twigg

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 514-515 Free

Increasing ambulance demand requires enhanced indicators of quality and safety

Paul A De Vincentis

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 515

Doing the right thing for tuberculosis control in the Torres Strait Islands

Anastasios Konstantinos, Graham Simpson, Tania C Sorrell and Ben J Marais

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 512

Serious morbidity associated with misuse of over-the-counter codeine–ibuprofen analgesics

Rozemary Karamatic, John Croese and Enrico Roche

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 516

Thunderstorm asthma — a timely reminder

Megan L Howden, Christine F McDonald and Michael F Sutherland

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 512-513

Death and morbidity from supratherapeutic dosing of colchicine

Michelle Sweidan, James F Reeve and Kitty Yu

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 517

Should opioids be used for chronic non-cancer pain?

Dilip Kapur, Phillip B Cornish, Carol A Snellgrove and David A Cherry

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 513-514

Death and morbidity from supratherapeutic dosing of colchicine

Nicholas A Buckley and Simone O P Rossi

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 517

Is Australia ready to use glycated haemoglobin for the diagnosis of diabetes?

Len D Moaven

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 514

Change of HbA1c reporting to the new SI units

Maria E Craig, Kim C Donaghue, Fergus J Cameron and Martin Silink

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 514-515 Free

Advertising of fast food to children on Australian television: the impact of industry self-regulation

Peta E Craig and Geoffrey Annison

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 453

Safeguard or mollycoddle? Medical student placements in Aboriginal communities

Andrew D Webster, Robert D Marshall, Lee J Fairhead, Trent Little and Falk Reinholz

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 449-450 Free

Advertising of fast food to children on Australian television: the impact of industry self-regulation

Lana Hebden, Lesley King, Anne Grunseit, Bridget Kelly and Kathy Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 453

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Luis Vitetta, Shoshannah L Beck, Samantha Coulson and Avni Sali

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Vicki Kotsirilos

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Use of the modified early warning score in emergency medical units

Imogen A Mitchell, Mary-Ann Kulh and Heather McKay

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 448

Is money spent on quality improvement better spent on clinical care?

Roland J Meyer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 452

Aseptic insertion of central venous lines to reduce bacteraemia

Chantal S Ferguson, Victoria C D’Abrera, Helen J Van Gessel and Dorothy Jones

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 448-449

Should more Australian doctors be salaried than paid by fee-for-service?

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 452-453

Delivering supplemental anatomy education: the University of Queensland model

Matthew J Roberts, Bavahuna Manoharan, Marianne Vonau, Russell W Stitz and Owen A Ung

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 449

Individual responsibility for reducing obesity: the unintended consequences of well intended messages

Jessica L Browne, Paul Zimmet and Jane Speight

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 386

Pharmacogenetic screening of Indigenous Australians

Joseph D Tucci

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 386-387 Free