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From the Editor’s Desk: Health, bushfires and political procrastination   Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 59.

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In This Issue . . .   Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 58.

Editorials

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Planned home birth in Australia: politics or science?
Andrew F Pesce — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 60-61.

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Immigration detention and health
Christine B Phillips — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 61-62.

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Partnership with patients to improve patient safety
Stephanie M Newell, Dorothy A Jones and Martin J Hatlie — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 63-64.

Research

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The health of people in Australian immigration detention centres
Janette P Green and Kathy Eagar — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 65-70.

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Symptoms and suffering at the end of life in children with cancer: an Australian perspective
John A Heath, Naomi E Clarke, Susan M Donath, Maria McCarthy, Vicki A Anderson and Joanne Wolfe — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 71-75.

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Planned home and hospital births in South Australia, 1991–2006: differences in outcomes
Robyn M Kennare, Marc J N C Keirse, Graeme R Tucker and Annabelle C Chan — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 76-80.

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

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A pandemic response to a disease of predominantly seasonal intensity
Heath A Kelly — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 81-83.

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Hospitalised adult patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Melbourne, Australia
Justin T Denholm, Claire L Gordon, Paul D Johnson, Saliya S Hewagama, Rhonda L Stuart, Craig Aboltins, Cameron Jeremiah, James Knox, Garry P Lane, Adrian R Tramontana, Monica A Slavin, Thomas R Schulz, Michael Richards, Chris J Birch and Allen C Cheng — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 84-86.

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The rational clinician in a pandemic setting
David A Bradt and Joseph Epstein — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 87-89.

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Comparison of adult patients hospitalised with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza during the “PROTECT” phase of the pandemic response
Ya-Shu Chang, Sebastiaan J van Hal, Peter M Spencer, Iain B Gosbell and Peter W Collett — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 90-93.

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The changing phases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Queensland: an overview of public health actions and epidemiology
Ranil D Appuhamy, Frank H Beard, Hai N Phung, Christine E Selvey, Frances A Birrell and Terry H Culleton — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 94-97.

Clinical Update

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How do we manage patients who become unemployed?
Mark F Harris, Elizabeth Harris and Timothy D Shortus — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 98-101.

For Debate

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Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?
Miles H Beaman and Michael J Leung — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 102-104.

Letters

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The case for newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia in Australia
Garry L Warne, Katrina L Armstrong, Thomas A Faunce, Bridget M Wilcken, Avihu Boneh, Elizabeth Geelhoed and Maria E Craig — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 107.

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Glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes after provision of public hospital-funded insulin pumps
Peter W Goss — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 107-108.

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Norovirus diarrhoeal disease in infants and children
Alison M Kesson, Nicola Benwell and Elizabeth J Elliott — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 108-109.

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Recognising congenital glaucoma
Peter J Lewindon — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 109.

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Junior doctors’ perceptions of their preparedness for hospital work: support for the rural clinical school model as a key to better preparation
Diann S Eley — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 109-110.

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Evidence-based uncertainty: recent trial results on prostate-specific antigen testing and prostate cancer mortality
Peter C Arnold || David P Smith, Emily Banks, Mark S Clements, Robert A Gardiner and Bruce K Armstrong — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 110.

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Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003
David J Scrimgeour — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 110-111.

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A national approach to perinatal mental health in Australia: exercising caution in the roll-out of a public health initiative
Marie-Paule Austin, Nicole Reilly, Jeannette Milgrom and Bryanne Barnett — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 111.

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Is uptake of genetic testing for colorectal cancer influenced by knowledge of insurance implications?
Warwick P Anderson — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 112.

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Poll tax and preventive cardiology in Australia
V Michael Jelinek — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 112.

Book Reviews

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A history of the “unfortunate experiment” at National Women‘s Hospital
reviewed by Caroline M de Costa — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 75.

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Practical cardiology
reviewed by J H Nicholas Bett — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 97.

Columns

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In Other Journals   Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 106.

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