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Volume 176 Issue 5

4 March 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 197 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 199 Free

Editorials

Management of infectious diseases

M Lindsay Grayson and Steven Wesselingh

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 202-203

A hormonal male contraceptive: from wish to reality

David J Handelsman

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 204-205

Public reporting of comparative information about quality of healthcare

Martin N Marshall and Robert H Brook

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 205-206

Research

Will Australian men use male hormonal contraception? A survey of a postpartum population

Gareth C Weston, Michelle L Schlipalius, Meabh Ni Bhuinneain and Beverley J Vollenhoven

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 208-210 Free

How many patients with coronary heart disease are not achieving their risk-factor targets? Experience in Victoria 1996–1998 versus 1999–2000

Margarite J Vale, Michael V Jelinek and James D Best, on behalf of the COACH study group

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 211-215 Free

Healthcare

Postoperative serious adverse events in a teaching hospital: a prospective study

Rinaldo Bellomo, Donna Goldsmith, Sarah Russell and Shigehiko Uchino

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 216-218 Free

Hyponatraemia and hypokalaemia due to indapamide

Michael D Chapman, Ross Hanrahan, John McEwen and John E Marley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 219-221 Free

Clinical Ethics

Medical harm and the consequences of error for doctors

Paul M McNeill and Merrilyn Walton

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 222-225 Free

The profession

Ethics, medicine and economics: integration in a hospital environment

Max M J Griffiths and Ian T Dunlop

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 226-228

MJA Practice Essentials: Infectious Diseases

1: Infections in pregnant women

Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Series Editors:

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 229-236 Free

EBM in action

Risk of taking oral contraceptives in patients with a history of migraine with neurological signs

Vivienne F Bernath, Ornella Clavisi and Jeremy N Anderson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 237-238

Letters

Occupational infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 after a needlestick injury

Mark W Douglas, Jane L Walters and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 240

Serotonin toxicity with therapeutic doses of dexamphetamine and venlafaxine

Felicity H Prior, Geoffrey K Isbister, Andrew H Dawson and Ian M Whyte

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 240-241

Venlafaxine and bilateral acute angle closure glaucoma

Bradley Ng, G Mark C Sanbrook, Anthony J Malouf and Smita A Agarwal

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 241

Mirtazapine-induced akathisia

Boregowda G Girishchandra, Liana Johnson, Rebecca M Cresp and Kenneth G D Orr

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 242

Vitamin D deficiency and multicultural Australia

Paul Glendenning, Rebecca S Mason and Terrence H Diamond

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 242-243

Vitamin D deficiency and multicultural Australia

Paul Glendenning

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 242-243

Confronting conflict of interest in research organisations: time for national action

Max Kamien

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 243

Recent appearance of clindamycin resistance in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in south-east Queensland

Wendy J Munckhof, Jacqueline Harper, Jacqueline Schooneveldt and Graeme R Nimmo

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 243-244

Time for a grant category for curiosity-based research

Gordon L Ada and Frank Fenner

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 244

Megadose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial

Luis Vitetta, Avni Sali, Bill Paspaliaris and Nicola J Reavley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 298-299

Megadose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial

Carmen Audera, Roger V Patulny, Beate H Sander and Robert M Douglas

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 298-299

Book review

Learning from literature

John Ward

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 221

Obituary

Stephen Nicholas Hocking MB BS, FANZCA

Robert J Davies

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (5): 225 Free

Columns

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