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Environment and public health

Research

BreastScreen-based mammography screening in women with a personal history of breast cancer, Western Australian study

Nehmat Houssami, Janette J Tresham, Lin Fritschi and Liz E Wylie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 460-464 Free

Perspectives

Obesity and chronic disease: have we missed the point?

Garry Egger

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 377

Letters

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

Perspectives

Adverse events associated with 2010 CSL and other inactivated influenza vaccines

Heath A Kelly, Danuta M Skowronski, Gaston De Serres and Paul V Effler

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 318-320 Free

Research

Changes in the sodium content of bread in Australia and New Zealand between 2007 and 2010: implications for policy

Elizabeth K Dunford, Helen Eyles, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Jacqui L Webster and Bruce C Neal

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 346-349 Free

Letters

Challenges in postexposure prophylaxis of a vaccinated bat carer

Heidi J Carroll, Bradley J McCall, David Looke and Bruce Fraser

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 323-324

Case reports

An unusual cause of caustic burns

Robert J Knight, Tania McWilliams, Dawn Reeler, Liz Whan and Fiona Wood

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 355-356 Free

Letters

Surgical implications of global warming

Joseph W Smith and Guy J Maddern

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 324

Letters

The German Escherichia coli outbreak — could it happen here?

Martyn D Kirk

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 325-326

Letters

Medicine use, heat and thermoregulation in Australian patients

Peter W Tait

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 327

Perspectives

Health in the green economy

Ray Moynihan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 317

Clinical focus

The mining and burning of coal: effects on health and the environment

William M Castleden, David Shearman, George Crisp and Philip Finch

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 333-335

Editorials

Hendra virus

Jeannette R Young, Christine E Selvey and Rick Symons

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 250-251

Perspectives

Why the tobacco industry fears plain packaging

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 255

Research

Increasing incidence of malignant mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos during home maintenance and renovation

Nola J Olsen, Peter J Franklin, Alison Reid, Nicholas H de Klerk, Timothy J Threlfall, Keith Shilkin and Bill Musk

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 271-274 Free

Reflections

Beyond builders and miners: mesothelioma hits home

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 290-291

Editorials

Minimising the misuse of oxycodone and other pharmaceutical opioids in Australia

Wayne D Hall and Michael P Farrell

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 248-249

In Clinical Practice

Unintended pregnancy in Australia: what more can we do?

Angela J Taft, Melissa K Hobbs, Safeera Y Hussainy, Lisa H Amir, Kay Stewart, Anthony M A Smith, Julia M Shelley and Colin B Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 166-167

Preventive health

General practice and preventive health care: a view through the eyes of community members

Danielle Mazza, Lyndel K Shand, Narelle Warren, Helen Keleher, Colette J Browning and Emma J Bruce

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 180-183 Free

Letters

Lack of caregiver supervision: a contributing factor in Australian unintentional child drowning deaths, 2000–2009

Dymphna Eszenyi

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (3): 156-157

Letters

Lack of caregiver supervision: a contributing factor in Australian unintentional child drowning deaths, 2000–2009

Lauren A Petrass, Jennifer D Blitvich and Caroline F Finch

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (3): 156-157

Supplement

Association of adolescent symptoms of depression and anxiety with alcohol use disorders in young adulthood: findings from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study

Maria McKenzie, Anthony F Jorm, Helena Romaniuk, Craig A Olsson and George C Patton

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (3): S27 Free

Viewpoint

Why is treating obesity so difficult? Justification for the role of bariatric surgery

Joseph Proietto

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (3): 144-146 Free

Editorials

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s access to medicines — the QUMAX program

Sophie Couzos, Vicki Sheedy and Dea Delaney Thiele

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 62-63 Free

For debate

Is the “alcopops” tax working? Probably yes but there is a bigger picture

Steven J Skov, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Kypros Kypri, Peter G Miller, Wayne D Hall, Michael M Daube and A Rob Moodie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 84-86 Free