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Ethics and law

Reflection

Voluntary euthanasia laws in Australia: are we really better off dead?

Briony J Murphy

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 254-255

Perspectives

Streamlining ethics review for multisite quality and safety initiatives: national bariatric surgery registry experience

Wendy A Brown, Brittany R Smith, Melissa Boglis, Dianne L Brown, Margaret Anderson, Paul E O'Brien, John J McNeil and Ian D Caterson

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 200-201 Free

Letters

English as a second language and outcomes of patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes: results from the CONCORDANCE registry

Ben Gray

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 140

News / From the NHMRC

Review of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2007)

Anne Kelso

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (2): 49 Free

Research

What does “futility” mean? An empirical study of doctors’ perceptions

Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Eliana Close, Nicole Shepherd, Cindy Gallois, Malcolm H Parker, Sarah Winch, Nicholas Graves and Leonie K Callaway

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 318 Free

Short reports

Immunisation for medical researchers: an ethical and practical imperative

Michelle L Townsend, Brin FS Grenyer, Wilfred Yeo and Ian Wright

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 263

Perspectives

Time to raise the minimum purchasing age for tobacco in Australia

Roger S Magnusson

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 220-221

Perspectives

Recording consultations: a win–win situation for physicians and patients

Kimberley Benson and Ralph Nanan

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (5): 175-176

Ethics and law

Teledermatology and clinical photography: safeguarding patient privacy and mitigating medico-legal risk

Paul Stevenson, Anna R Finnane and H Peter Soyer

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (5): 198-200

Editorials

ADHD and psychostimulants — overdiagnosis and overprescription

Adrian J Dunlop and Louise K Newman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 139 Free

Perspectives

Managing legal and medical complexities in caring for people with drug and alcohol problems: a call for change

Ian W Webster

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 141-142

Reflections

The acute care conveyor belt: a personal experience

Kimberley D Ivory

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 162-163 Free

Ethics and law

Conclaves and concurrent expert evidence: a positive development in Australian legal practice?

Bill Madden and Tina Cockburn

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 82-83

For debate

Pharmaceutical industry exposure in our hospitals: the final frontier

Jessica Dean, Erwin Loh and Justin J Coleman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 20-22 Free

Research

Reporting of health practitioners by their treating practitioner under Australia’s national mandatory reporting law

Marie M Bismark, Matthew J Spittal, Jennifer M Morris and David M Studdert

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 24 Free

Ethics and law

Compensated transnational surrogacy in Australia: time for a comprehensive review

Ainsley J Newson

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (1): 33-35 Free

Research

Unprofessional behaviour on social media by medical students

Christopher J Barlow, Stewart Morrison, Hugh ON Stephens, Emily Jenkins, Michael J Bailey and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (11): 439 Free

Perspectives

Time to shut down the acute care conveyor belt?

Kenneth M Hillman, Gordon D Rubenfeld and Jeffrey Braithwaite

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (11): 429-430

Editorials

Abortion law in Australia: it’s time for national consistency and decriminalisation

Caroline M de Costa and Heather Douglas

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (9): 349-350 Free

Perspectives

Are some more equal than others? Challenging the basis for prisoners’ exclusion from Medicare

Tessa M Plueckhahn, Stuart A Kinner, Georgina Sutherland and Tony G Butler

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (9): 359-361

Research

Presentations with alcohol-related serious injury to a major Sydney trauma hospital after 2014 changes to liquor laws

Gordian WO Fulde, Myles Smith and S Lesley Forster

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (9): 366 Free

Research

“What should happen before asymptomatic men decide whether or not to have a PSA test?” A report on three community juries

Chris Degeling, Lucie Rychetnik, Kristen Pickles, Rae Thomas, Jennifer A Doust, Robert A Gardiner, Paul Glasziou, Ainsley J Newson and Stacy M Carter

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 335 Free

Short reports

Ethics and compliance hurdles in conducting multicentre low-risk research

Merin V Pariyadan, Elizabeth D Hotham, Sean Turner and Sanjay Garg

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 324-325

Research

Legal criteria for involuntary mental health admission: clinician performance in recording grounds for decision

John Brayley, Andrew Alston and Kynan Rogers

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 334 Free

Perspectives

Match of the decade: risk management of concussion versus high-speed collisions in the football codes

John W Orchard

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (7): 281-282 Free