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Environment and public health

Snapshot

Lead poisoning and Burton’s line

Jayne E Camuglia, George Grigoriadis and Christopher P Gilfillan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 339 Free

Public health

Mass psychogenic response to human papillomavirus vaccination

Jim P Buttery, Simon Madin, Nigel W Crawford, Sonja Elia, Sophie La Vincente, Sarah Hanieh, Lindsay Smith and Bruce Bolam

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 261-262

Book reviews

What ails America

Melissa Sweet

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 273

Letters

Bicycle handlebar injuries in Western Australia: from imprints to abdominal wall hernias

Parshotam K Gera, Andrew P Barker, Ian Gollow, Jillian Orford, Sue Wicks and Liz Whan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 295

Letters

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Niyi Awofeso

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237

Letters

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237

Editorials

The Peoples-uni: public health education for all

Richard F Heller

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 189-190

Medicine and the media

The newsworthiness of cancer in Australian television news

Ross MacKenzie, Simon Chapman, Natalie Johnson, Kevin McGeechan and Simon Holding

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 155-158 Free

Letters

Personal carbon trading: a potential “stealth intervention” for obesity reduction?

Cathal A Smith

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 181

Letters

Personal carbon trading: a potential “stealth intervention” for obesity reduction?

Barry N J Walters

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 181

Letters

Booster seat use by children aged 4–11 years: evidence of the need to revise current Australasian standards to accommodate overweight children

Yvonne A Zurynski, Lynne Bilston and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 183

Editorials

The changing landscape for cervical screening

Annabelle Farnsworth

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 6-7

Letters

Changing perceptions of solaria and cancer risk: the role of the media

Geoffrey Jalleh, Robert J Donovan, Chad Lin and Terry Slevin

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 735

Research

Decrease in breast cancer incidence following a rapid fall in use of hormone replacement therapy in Australia

Karen Canfell, Emily Banks, Aye M Moa and Valerie Beral

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 641-644 Free

Letters

Overweight and obesity in Australia

John A Hawley and David W Dunstan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 678-679

Letters

Overweight and obesity in Australia

Douglas G Travis

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 678-679

Matters arising

“Let's not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Bryan G Walpole

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

The Great Divide

Hospitalisations due to interpersonal violence: a population-based study in Western Australia

Lynn B Meuleners, Delia Hendrie and Andy H Lee

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 572-575 Free

Matters arising

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Michael S Gracey and Randolph M Spargo

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 620-621 Free

Matters arising

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

Letters

The real costs of lifetime tobacco usage

C Ross Philpot

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 550

Book review

Social marketing can promote good health

Catriona M F Bonfiglioli

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 541

Editorials

“I want the one for older women” — extending the human papillomavirus vaccine population base

Gerard V Wain

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 501-502

Research

The burden of influenza in healthy children in South Australia

Katina D’Onise and Jane C A Raupach

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 510-513 Free

Public health

Persistent risk of tuberculosis in migrants a decade after arrival in Australia

Michelle E McPherson, Heath Kelly, Mahomed S Patel and David Leslie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 528-531 Free