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Environment and public health

Letters

Skin cancer screening of outdoor workers in Queensland

Nicola C Douglas, Laura Baillie and H Peter Soyer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 100-101

Editorials

A no-fault compensation scheme for serious adverse events attributed to vaccination

Heath A Kelly, Clare Looker and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 4-5

Research

Socioeconomic disparities in stroke rates and outcome: pooled analysis of stroke incidence studies in Australia and New Zealand

Emma L Heeley, Jade W Wei, Kristie Carter, Md Shaheenul Islam, Amanda G Thrift, Graeme J Hankey, Alan Cass and Craig S Anderson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 10-14 Free

Research

Stroke and transient ischaemic attack awareness

J Ian Spark, Nadia Blest, Sheralee Sandison, Phillip J Puckridge, Hafees A Saleem and David A Russell

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 16-19 Free

Letters

Lower-alcohol, lower-calorie wines: harm reduction or harm production?

Stephen P McKenzie, Evie R Leslie and Peter G Miller

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 614-615

Talking Policy

Indigenous participation in the Australian Health Survey: a response

Paul L Jelfs

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 511 Free

Closing the gap

Use of eye care services by Indigenous Australian adults

Anna-Lena M R Arnold, Lucy Busija, Jill E Keeffe and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 537-538 Free

Talking Policy

How can Australia do better for Indigenous health?

Peter W Tait

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 501-502 Free

Medicine and the law

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

Thomas A Faunce, Gregor Urbas and Lesley Skillen

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (9): 474-478 Free

Position statement

Alcohol and cancer: a position statement from Cancer Council Australia

Margaret H Winstanley, Iain S Pratt, Kathryn Chapman, Hayley J Griffin, Emma J Croager, Ian N Olver, Craig Sinclair and Terry J Slevin

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (9): 479-482 Free

Letters

Being correct about obesity

Timothy A Welborn and Satvinder S Dhaliwal

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 429-430

Editorials

Routine screening for vitamin D deficiency in early pregnancy: past its due date?

Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (7): 332-333

Conference report

Antibiotic resistance is an emerging threat to public health: an urgent call to action at the Antimicrobial Resistance Summit 2011

Thomas Gottlieb and Graeme R Nimmo

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (6): 281-283

Medicine and the law

Newborn screening cards: a legal quagmire

Diana M Bowman and David M Studdert

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (6): 319-322 Free

Letters

How can we better understand trends in varicella zoster virus-related disease epidemiology?

Anita E Heywood and Kristine K Macartney

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 268-269

Letters

Thiamine (vitamin B1) concentrations in a population of Australians with alcohol use disorders are remarkably elevated

Philip M Crowley and Matt D Gaughwin

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 269-270

Letters

Trends in head injuries and helmet use in cyclists at an inner-city major trauma centre, 1991–2010

Chris E Rissel and Paul Martin

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 215-216

Research

FluCAN 2009: initial results from sentinel surveillance for adult influenza and pneumonia in eight Australian hospitals

Paul M Kelly, Tom Kotsimbos, Anna Reynolds, Richard Wood-Baker, Bob Hancox, Simon G A Brown, Mark Holmes, Graham Simpson, Simon Bowler, Grant Waterer, Louis B Irving, Christine Jenkins, Phillip J Thompson and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 169-174 Free

Public health

Costs and cost-effectiveness of full implementation of a biennial faecal occult blood test screening program for bowel cancer in Australia

Michael P Pignone, Kathy L Flitcroft, Kirsten Howard, Lyndal J Trevena, Glenn P Salkeld and D James B St John

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 180-185 Free

Supplement

Prediction and surveillance of influenza epidemics

Justin R Boyle, Ross S Sparks, Gerben B Keijzers, Julia L Crilly, James F Lind and Louise M Ryan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): S28 Free

Research

Changing epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in Australian children after introduction of a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Scott R Williams, Paul J Mernagh, Michael H T Lee and Jonathan T Tan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 116-120 Free

Letters

Risk of brain damage in babies from naphthalene in mothballs: call to consider a national ban

William O Tarnow-Mordi, Nick J Evans, Kei Lui and Brian Darlow, on behalf of the Advisory Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 150

Letters

Lowering Australia’s defence against infectious diseases

Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 152

Letters

Azithromycin treatment levels inadequate for recommended trachoma control guidelines

Margaret Kelaher, Angeline S Ferdinand and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (2): 102 Free

Research

The impact of mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid on the blood folate levels of an Australian population

Ross D Brown, Mark R Langshaw, Elaine J Uhr, John N Gibson and Douglas E Joshua

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (2): 65-67 Free