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Women's health

Book reviews

eMJA: Alcohol in pregnancy: how safe is it?

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5):

Notable cases

Three cases of endometrial cancer associated with “bioidentical” hormone replacement therapy

John A Eden, Neville F Hacker and Michael Fortune

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 244-245 Free

Medicine and the community

Early medical abortion in Cairns, Queensland: July 2006 – April 2007

Caroline M de Costa, Darren B Russell, Naomi R de Costa, Michael Carrette and Heather M McNamee

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (3): 171-173 Free

Book reviews

Menopause — it’s not just hormones

Sheila O’Neill

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (2): 132

Viewpoint

HRT: a reappraisal of the risks and benefits

Alastair H MacLennan

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 643-646 Free

Letters

Antenatal care implications of population-based trends in Down syndrome birth rates

Caroline M De Costa and Cait Calcutt

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 663

Letters

The difficulty with data: greater accuracy required for policy making

Susan Downes and Sally M Roach

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 663-664 Free

Correction

Medicines and breastfeeding: information is available on safe use

Lisa H Amir

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 606

Maternal and Child Health

The urban–remote divide for Indigenous perinatal outcomes

Simon Graham, Lisa R Jackson Pulver, Yueping Alex Wang, Paul M Kelly, Paula J Laws, Narelle Grayson and Elizabeth A Sullivan

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 509-512 Free

Public health

A review of policies on alcohol use during pregnancy in Australia and other English-speaking countries, 2006

Colleen M O'Leary, Louise Heuzenroeder, Elizabeth J Elliott and Carol Bower

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 466-471 Free

Matters arising

Medicines and breastfeeding: information is available on safe use

Lisa H Amir

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 485

Letters

Oocyte cryopreservation as an adjunct to the assisted reproductive technologies

Keith L Harrison, Michelle T Lane, Jeremy C Osborn, Christine A Kirby, Regan Jeffrey, John H Esler and David Molloy

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (7): 379

Letters

Patient privacy and Latin: my father's story

Katherine A Haley

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (6): 328

Systematic review

Folic acid and risk of twinning: a systematic review of the recent literature, July 1994 to July 2006

Evelyne E Muggli and Jane L Halliday

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (5): 243-248 Free

For debate

National guidelines on alcohol use during pregnancy: a dissenting opinion

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 35-37 Free

Editorials

Cervical cancer prevention: the saga goes on, but so much has changed!

Gerard V Wain

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (9): 476-477

Research

Cervical cancer in Australia and the United Kingdom: comparison of screening policy and uptake, and cancer incidence and mortality

Karen Canfell, Freddy Sitas and Valerie Beral

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (9): 482-486 Free

Consensus statement

Perinatal care at the borderlines of viability: a consensus statement based on a NSW and ACT consensus workshop

Kei Lui, Barbara Bajuk, Kirsty Foster, Arnolda Gaston, Alison Kent, John Sinn, Kaye Spence, Wendy Fischer and David Henderson-Smart

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (9): 495-500 Free

Health policy

Is there a case for differential treatment of young men and women?

Alan White, Helen J Fawkner and Mike Holmes

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (8): 454-455

Letters

Increase in caesarean section rates among low-risk women in Queensland, 1990–2004

Trisha C Johnston and Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 404-405

Letters

Birth centre trials are unreliable

Kathleen M Fahy and Sally Tracy

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 407

Letters

Birth centre trials are unreliable

Andrew F Pesce

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 407

Research

Iodine status in pregnant women and their newborns: are our babies at risk of iodine deficiency?

Cheryl A Travers, Kamala Guttikonda, Carol A Norton, Peter R Lewis, Lyndall J Mollart, Veronica Wiley, Bridget Wilcken, Creswell J Eastman and Steven C Boyages

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 617-620 Free

Research

Postpartum anti-D: can we safely reduce the dose?

Bradley M Augustson, Elizabeth A Fong, Dianne E Grey, Janine I Davies and Wendy N Erber

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 611-613 Free

Letters

Mifepristone (RU-486) and limits to abortion

Suzanne Belton

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (11): 590