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Letters

The dangers of dogma in medicine

Deborah J Verran

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (11): 663

Alcohol tax reform: now is the time

Christopher M Doran, Wayne D Hall, Brian R Vandenberg, Todd A Harper, Jane E Martin and Mike Daube

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (11): 660

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

Chun Wah M Tam

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (11): 660-661

Neonatal vitamin D supplementation: are the protocols getting ahead of the evidence?

Kate M McCloskey, Natalie Wright, Anne-Louise Ponsonby and Peter J Vuillermin

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (11): 661

Distance to the closest radiotherapy facility and survival after a diagnosis of rectal cancer in Queensland

Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (11): 661-662

Distance to the closest radiotherapy facility and survival after a diagnosis of rectal cancer in Queensland

Sean A Bydder and Nigel A Spry

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (11): 661-662

Distance to the closest radiotherapy facility and survival after a diagnosis of rectal cancer in Queensland

Peter D Baade, Paramita Dasgupta, Joanne F Aitken and Gavin Turrell

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (11): 661-662

Implementing US-style anti-fraud laws in the Australian pharmaceutical and health care industries

Alain Braillon

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 585

Suicide and self-harm in immigration detention

Robert D Goldney

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 582

Suicide and self-harm in immigration detention

Michael J Dudley, Nicholas G Procter and Louise K Newman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 582

A case study of a single ethics committee for multicentre trials

Ian N Olver, Sharon J P Falleiro, Marion L Marson and James F Bishop

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 582-583

NHMRC funding for primary care research 2000–2008

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 583

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

Use of routine health data to complement monitoring of consumer product-related injuries

Kirsten McKenzie, Ruth A Barker, Deborah A Scott and Dave A Strachan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 580-581

Challenges with maintaining clinical teaching capacity in regional hospitals

Tarun Sen Gupta, Richard B Hays, Torres S Woolley, Isaac Seidl and Andrew Johnson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 584-585

MELAS syndrome in an Indigenous Australian woman

Luke J Conway, Thomas E Robertson, James J McGill and Josh P Hanson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (10): 581-582 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