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Volume 180 Issue 11

7 June 2004

From the editor’s desk

Leisure and the 4 Cs

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 545 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): Free

Editorials

Medical radiation and the risk of cancer

Graeme J Dickie and Robert S Fitchew

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 548-549

The beginning of the end of warfarin?

John W Eikelboom and Graeme J Hankey

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 549-551

Postcard from the UK

Research assessment: there must be an easier way

Konrad Jamrozik, David P Weller and Richard F Heller

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 553-554

Conference report

In search of sustainability

Nick J Towle

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 556-557

Research

Patient attitudes to donation of embryos for research in Western Australia

Peter J Burton and Katherine Sanders

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 559-561 Free

Public health

Are current playground safety standards adequate for preventing arm fractures?

Shauna Sherker and Joan Ozanne-Smith

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 562-565 Free

An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at the Melbourne Aquarium, April 2000: investigation and case–control studies

Jane E Greig, John A Carnie, Graham F Tallis, Bernard Zwolak, William G Hart, Charles S Guest, Norbert J Ryan, Jennie A Leydon, Agnes G Tan and Ian R Gordon

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 566-572 Free

Detention for tuberculosis: public health and the law

Sanjaya N Senanayake and Mark J Ferson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 573-576 Free

Medicine and the community

Anonymity or transparency in reporting of medical error: a community-based survey in South Australia

Sue M Evans, Jesia G Berry, Brian J Smith and Adrian J Esterman

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 577-580 Free

For debate

Ageing and healthcare costs in Australia: a case of policy-based evidence?

Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 581-583 Free

Snapshot

Aortic dissection in Turner syndrome

Colin I Clement, John Brereton and Phillip Clifton-Bligh

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 584 Free

Complementary and alternative medicine

Complementary and alternative medicine — with a difference

George T Lewith and Alan Bensoussan

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 585-586

The rise and rise of complementary and alternative medicine: a sociological perspective

Ian D Coulter and Evan M Willis

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 587-589 Free

Film review

A counterweight to fast-food advertising

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 590

The Research Enterprise

My pseudoscientific nightmare

Edzard Ernst

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 591

Letters

Bulk-billing GP clinics did not significantly reduce emergency department caseload in Mackay, Queensland

Dale W Hanson, Herbert R Sadlier and Reinhold Muller

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 594-595

Bulk-billing GP clinics did not significantly reduce emergency department caseload in Mackay, Queensland

Ian F Knox

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 594-595

What explains falling asthma mortality?

Elizabeth J Comino

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 595

Central venous catheters: optimal patient care or convenience?

John R Gowardman, Maria Brosnan, Joy Whiting and Peter Collignon

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 595-596

Q fever in children: an emerging public health issue in Queensland

Jennifer H Barralet and Neil R Parker

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 596-597

Border screening for SARS

Nicola Petrosillo, Vincenzo Puro and Giuseppe Ippolito

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 597

Using AUDIT to classify patients into Australian Alcohol Guideline categories

Julia E Fawcett, Anthony P Shakeshaft, Mark F Harris, Alex Wodak, Richard P Mattick and Robyn L Richmond

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 598

Acute liver failure associated with the use of herbal preparations containing black cohosh

Michael Thomsen, Luis Vitetta, Avni Sali and Matthias Schmidt

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 598-600

Acute liver failure associated with the use of herbal preparations containing black cohosh

Fiona J Cumming and Larry Kelly

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (11): 598-600

Book reviews

Antidote to depersonalised medicine

Sylvia R Cruess

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Colourful definitions

Ann T Gregory

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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