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Pediatric medicine

Letters

Mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid: an overdue public health opportunity

Henry Ekert

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (4): 199

Letters

Mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid: an overdue public health opportunity

Fiona J Stanley and Glen F Maberly

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (4): 199

Public health

Are Australian children iodine deficient? Results of the Australian National Iodine Nutrition Study

Mu Li, Creswell J Eastman, Kay V Waite, Gary Ma, Karen Byth, Margaret R Zacharin, Duncan J Topliss, Philip E Harding, John P Walsh, Lynley C Ward, Robin H Mortimer, Emily J Mackenzie and Zelda Doyle

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (4): 165-169 Free

Research

Zinc and vitamin A supplementation in Indigenous Australian children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infection: a randomised controlled trial

Anne B Chang, Paul J Torzillo, Peter M Stewart, Naomi C Boyce, Andrew V White, Gavin R Wheaton, David M Purdie, John Wakerman and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 107-112 Free

Editorials

The silent infection: should we be testing for perinatal hepatitis C and, if so, how?

Winita Hardikar, Elizabeth J Elliott and Cheryl A Jones

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (2): 54-55

Research

Television viewing habits associated with obesity risk factors: a survey of Melbourne schoolchildren

Jo Salmon, Karen J Campbell and David A Crawford

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (2): 64-67 Free

Notable cases

Succimer therapy for congenital lead poisoning from maternal petrol sniffing

Suzanna T Powell, Srinivas Bolisetty and Gavin R Wheaton

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (2): 84-85 Free

In Consultation

A patient with autism and severe depression: medical and ethical challenges for an adolescent medicine unit

S Rachel Skinner, Cindy Ng, Ann McDonald and Tamara Walters

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 422-424 Free

Policy changes

Healthy youth development: getting our priorities right

Michael D Resnick

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 398-400 Free

Risky Times

Adolescents and the media: why don’t paediatricians and parents “get it”?

Victor C Strasburger

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 425-426

Wellbeing

Life in a time of uncertainty: optimising the health and wellbeing of young Australians

Richard M Eckersley, Ani Wierenga and Johanna Wyn

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 402-404 Free

Risky Times

Health risk screening in adolescents: room for improvement in a tertiary inpatient setting

Michele S M Yeo, Lyndal M Bond and Susan M Sawyer

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 427-429 Free

Wellbeing

Self-management in adolescents with chronic illness. What does it mean and how can it be achieved?

Susan M Sawyer and Rosalie A Aroni

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 405-409 Free

World Of Difference

The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: findings to date on adolescents

Eve M Blair, Stephen R Zubrick and Adele H Cox

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 433-435 Free

Wellbeing

Confidential health care for adolescents: reconciling clinical evidence with family values

Lena A Sanci, Susan M Sawyer, Dagmar M Haller, George C Patton and Melissa S-L Kang

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 410-414 Free

World Of Difference

Cultural diversity in adolescent health care

David L Bennett, Peter Chown and Melissa S-L Kang

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 436-438 Free

In Consultation

Breaking away from the medical model: perceptions of health and health care in suburban Sydney youth

Carolyn H Kefford, Lyndal J Trevena and Simon M Willcock

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 418-421 Free

Policy changes

National health and development youth policies: valuable exercises or bureaucratic niceties?

David Hanna and Sue Bagshaw

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 395-397

Departments

Practical evidence in favour of mature-minor consent in primary care research

Dagmar M Haller, Lena A Sanci, George C Patton and Susan M Sawyer

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 439

Letters

Constipation and toileting issues in children

Graham D Hocking

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 391-392

Letters

Constipation and toileting issues in children

Anthony G Catto-Smith

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 391-392

Letters

Severe peanut allergy in Australian children

Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 277

Corrections

Correction: Reliability of parental reports of head lice in their children

Megan L Counahan, Ross M Andrews and Rick Speare

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 280

Research

The rising incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes in New South Wales, 1990–2002

Craig E Taplin, Maria E Craig, Margaret Lloyd, Martin Silink, Neville J Howard, Claire Taylor and Patricia Crock

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (5): 243-246 Free

Viewpoint

Maintaining an agenda for children: the role of data in linking policy, politics and outcomes

Sharon R Goldfeld and Frank Oberklaid

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (4): 209-211 Free