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Environment and public health

Guideline summary

The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases and Refugee Health Network of Australia recommendations for health assessment for people from refugee-like backgrounds: an abridged outline

Nadia J Chaves, Georgia A Paxton, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Aesen Thambiran, Joanne Gardiner, Jan Williams, Mitchell M Smith and Joshua S Davis

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 310-315 Free

Letters

Legionnaires’ disease cluster investigation in Sydney

Marianne Dowsett, Emma Quinn and Leena Gupta

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 325

Perspectives

Is Australia prepared for the next pandemic?

Jodie McVernon, Tania C Sorrell, Jenny Firman, Brendan Murphy and Sharon R Lewin

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 284-286 Free

Editorials

Death from an untreatable infection may signal the start of the post-antibiotic era

Cheryl A Jones, Joshua S Davis and David FM Looke

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 292-293 Free

Short report

Treatment of latent tuberculosis infections in the Darwin region

Rowena Boyd, Vanessa Johnston, Belinda Farmer and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (7): 306-207

Letters

The renewal of the National Cervical Screening Program

Brian Cox

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (6): 274

Letters

The renewal of the National Cervical Screening Program

Jonathan Carter, Ian Hammond and Megan Smith

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (6): 274

Perspectives

Vaccine myopia: adult vaccination also needs attention

Robert I Menzies, Julie Leask, Jenny Royle and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (6): 238-239 Free

Short report

HPV vaccine coverage is increasing in Australia

Julia ML Brotherton, Karen L Winch, Lisette Bicknell, Genevieve Chappell and Marion Saville

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (6): 262

Research

Human papillomavirus vaccination and genital warts in young Indigenous Australians: national sentinel surveillance data

Hammad Ali, Hamish McManus, Catherine C O'Connor, Denton Callander, Marlene Kong, Simon Graham, Dina Saulo, Christopher K Fairley, David G Regan, Andrew Grulich, Nicola Low, Rebecca J Guy and Basil Donovan

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (5): 204-209 Free

Narrative review

Thirty years of the World Health Organization’s target caesarean section rate: time to move on

Stephen J Robson and Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 181-185

Editorials

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

Perspectives

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

Stephen Colagiuri

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

Perspectives

Reducing alcohol-related violence and other harm in Australia

Wayne D Hall and Megan Weier

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

Letters

Crusted scabies in northern and central Australia — now is the time for eradication

Simon Quilty, Thomas S Kaye and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (2): 96

Research

Pancreatectomy is underused in NSW regions with low institutional surgical volumes: a population data linkage study

Nicola Creighton, Richard Walton, David M Roder, Sanchia Aranda, Arthur J Richardson, Neil Merrett and David Currow

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (1): 23-29 Free

Short report

Australia Day 2016: alcohol-related presentations to emergency departments

Diana Egerton-Warburton, Andrew Gosbell, Angela Wadsworth, Daniel M Fatovich and Drew B Richardson

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (1): 40 Free

Letters

Absolute risk of cardiovascular disease events, and blood pressure- and lipid-lowering therapy in Australia

Satvinder S Dhaliwal and Timothy A Welborn

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (1): 51

Christmas competition / Joint winner

What’s in your hot dog? A histological comparative analysis

Tyler Rouse and Jordan Radigan

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 519-520 Free

Research

Factors associated with quality of care for patients with pancreatic cancer in Australia

Elizabeth A Burmeister, Dianne L O'Connell, Susan J Jordan, David Goldstein, Neil Merrett, David K Wyld, Vanessa L Beesley, Helen M Gooden, Monika Janda and Rachel E Neale

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (10): 459-465 Free

Research

Young-onset colorectal cancer in New South Wales: a population-based study

Stephen Boyce, Natasha Nassar, Cathy Yuen Yi Lee, Michael KL Suen, Saleh Al Zahrani and Marc A Gladman

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (10): 465-470 Free

Letters

Estimating the number of regular and dependent methamphetamine users in Australia, 2002–2014

Rebecca McKetin, Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (9): 426

Editorials

After-hours medical deputising services for older people

C Dimity Pond

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (9): 395-396 Free

Short report

A rapid assessment of the impact of hazard reduction burning around Sydney, May 2016

Richard A Broome, Fay H Johnston, Joshua Horsley and Geoffrey G Morgan

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (9): 407-408 Free

Editorials

The renewal of the National Cervical Screening Program

Jonathan Carter

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (8): 357-358 Free