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1 February 2010

From the Editor’s Desk: Where have all the flowers gone? Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 113.

In This Issue . . . Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 114.

Editorials

The future of the physician assistant movement
Roderick S Hooker — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 116.

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?
Keryn J Christiansen — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 117-118.

Postcard from New York

Medical identity fraud in the United States: could it happen here?
Jeffrey D Zajac — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 119.

Research

Reducing drowning deaths: the continued challenge of immersion fatalities in Australia
Richard C Franklin, Justin P Scarr and John H Pearn — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 123-126.

Dyslipidaemia in rural Australia: prevalence, awareness, and adherence to treatment guidelines in the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study
Edward D Janus, Philip A Tideman, James A Dunbar, Annamari Kilkkinen, Stephen J Bunker, Benjamin Philpot, Rosy Tirimacco, Kevin Mc Namara, Sami Heistaro and Tiina Laatikainen — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 127-132.

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?
Joshua S Davis, Gail B Cross, Patrick G P Charles, Bart J Currie, Nicholas M Anstey and Allen C Cheng — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 133-136.

Urban–rural comparison of weight status among women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Verity Cleland, Clare Hume, David Crawford, Anna Timperio, Kylie Hesketh, Louise Baur, Nicky Welch, Jo Salmon and Kylie Ball — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 137-140.

Health Care

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery in Australia
Timothy P Haydon, Jeffrey J Presneill and Megan S Robertson — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 141-143.

Clinical Update

Current concepts in the management of Parkinson disease
Michael W Hayes, Victor S Fung, Thomas E Kimber and John D O’Sullivan — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 144-149.

Medical Education

Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia?
J Nicky Hudson, Kathryn M Weston, Elizabeth E Farmer, Rowena G Ivers and Russell W Pearson — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 150-153.

For Debate

The new “Indigenous health” incentive payment: issues and challenges
Sophie Couzos and Dea Delaney Thiele — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 154-157.

Medicine and the Community

Depressive symptoms in older male Italian immigrants in Australia: the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project
Fiona F Stanaway, Robert G Cumming, Vasi Naganathan, Fiona M Blyth, Helen M Creasey, Louise M Waite, David J Handelsman and Markus J Seibel — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 158-162.

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Infection control of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in hospitals — a logistic challenge
Uma Devi and Kirsty L Buising — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 164-165.

Oseltamivir-resistant pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in a severely ill patient: the first Australian case
David J Speers, Simon H Williams, Mary Pinder, Harry R Moody, Aeron C Hurt and David W Smith — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 166-168.

Letters

Regressing metastatic melanoma and vitiligo-like depigmentation in an Indigenous Australian
Elizabeth M Christou, Diona L Damian and John F Thompson — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 171.

Can prior vaccinations against certain infections confer protection against developing melanoma?
Michael G E O’Rourke — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 171-172.

Desmoplastic small round cell tumour: an unusual presentation of an unusual tumour
Meena Okera, David Moffat and Sudarshan Selva-Nayagam — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 172-173.

Hydroxycut hepatotoxicity
N Nudrat Rashid and Jason Grant — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 173-174.

Vertebroplasty appears no better than placebo for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures, and has potential to cause harm
Paul J Graziotti || Kevin D Pile || Rachelle Buchbinder, Richard H Osborne and David Kallmes — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 174-175.

The private hospital: a potential surgical training ground
Ian R Gough, Ian D Civil, Spencer W Beasley, Bruce H Barraclough and David J Hillis — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 175-176.

Our public health system: an accident waiting to happen?
Robert N Atkinson — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 176.

Book Review

Living with bipolar. A guide to understanding and managing the disorder
reviewed by Philip B Mitchell — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 163.

Correction

Cough disorder: an allegory on DSM-IV
Peter I Parry — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 175.

Columns

In Other Journals Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 170.

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