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18 March 2002

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From the Editor's desk: Publishing by press release (MJA 2002; 176: 245)

 

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In This Issue . . . (MJA 2002; 176: 246)

Editorials

 

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Is it worth screening women over 70 for breast cancer — or indeed any women?
Alan Rodger (MJA 2002; 176: 247-248)

 

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Hard lessons from a randomised controlled trial
Konrad Jamrozik (MJA 2002; 176: 248-249)

 

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Pregnancy loss: a major life event affecting emotional health and well-being
Philip M Boyce, John T Condon, David A Ellwood (MJA 2002; 176: 250-251)

 
 

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Bioterrorism in Australia
Richard A Smallwood, Angela Merianos, John D Mathews (MJA 2002; 176: 251-253)

 

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Guiding antenatal care
Jodie M Dodd, Caroline A Crowther, Jeffrey S Robinson (MJA 2002; 176: 253-254)

 

Research

 

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Are recommendations about routine antenatal care in Australia consistent and evidence-based?
Jennifer M Hunt, Judith Lumley (MJA 2002; 176: 255-259)

 

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Flipped out of control: single-vehicle rollover accidents in the Northern Territory
P John Treacy, Kerrie Jones, Carole Mansfield (MJA 2002; 176: 260-263)

Notable Cases

 

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Massive tick (Ixodes holocyclus) infestation with delayed facial-nerve palsy
Mark K Miller (MJA 2002; 176: 264-265)

Systematic Review

 

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Benefits, harms and costs of screening mammography in women 70 years and over: a systematic review
Alexandra L Barratt, Les M Irwig, Paul P Glasziou, Glenn P Salkeld, Nehmat Houssami (MJA 2002; 176: 266-271)

 

The Research Enterprise

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The demise of a planned randomised controlled trial in an urban Aboriginal medical service
Beverly M Sibthorpe, Ross S Bailie, Maggie A Brady, Sandra A Ball, Polly Sumner-Dodd, Wayne D Hall (MJA 2002; 176: 273-276)
   

 

Medicine and the Law

 

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Hindsight bias in medicolegal expert reports
Thomas B Hugh, G Douglas Tracy (MJA 2002; 176: 277-278)

   

 

Clinical Ethics

 

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Community versus individual benefit
Bernadette M Tobin, Stephen R Leeder, Ernest R Somerville (MJA 2002; 176: 279-280)

   

 

EBM: Trials on Trial

 

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Specifying interventions in a clinical trial
Jackie K Brighton, Val J Gebski, Anthony C Keech (MJA 2002; 176: 281-282)

   

 

 

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Does lowering blood pressure prevent recurrent stroke?
Andrew M Tonkin (MJA 2002; 176: 283-284)

   

 

EBM in Action

 

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Safety of hormone replacement therapy after mastectomy
Christopher B Del Mar, Paul P Glasziou, Anneliese B Spinks, Sharon L Sanders, Deborah J Hilton (MJA 2002; 176: 285)

MJA Practice Essentials: Infectious Diseases

 

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2: Hospital-acquired infections
Denis W Spelman (MJA 2002; 176: 286-291)

Letters

 

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Hydrofluoric acid burns from a household rust remover
Hugh C O Martin, Michael J Muller (MJA 2002; 176: 296)

   

 

 

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Renal protection by angiotensin II receptor antagonists in patients with type 2 diabetes
Roger E Peverill
Reply by George Jerums, Mark E Cooper, Richard E Gilbert, Robert C Atkins (MJA 2002; 176: 296-297)

   

 

 

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Pharmacological treatment of cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease
William Lam
Reply by Henry Brodaty, Jane R Hecker, John A Snowdon, David J Ames (MJA 2002; 176: 297-298)

 

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High prevalence of coeliac disease in a population-based study from Western Australia: a case for screening?
Jeremy Ryan
Reply by John K Olynyk, Digby J E Cullen, Guy Vautier, Judith A Collett, Dominic F Mallon, Chris J Hovell (MJA 2002; 176: 298)

 

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Megadose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial
Luis Vitetta, Avni Sali, Bill Paspaliaris, Nicola J Reavley
Reply by Carmen Audera, Roger V Patulny, Beate H Sander, Robert M Douglas (MJA 2002; 176: 298-299)

 

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Evolving evidence and continuing uncertainties for eating disorders
Janice D Russell, Suzanne F Abraham
Reply by David I Ben-Tovim (MJA 2002; 176: 299-300)

Book Reviews

 

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Understanding, influencing and evaluating drug use,
reviewed by Jane Robertson (MJA 2002; 176: 276)

 

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Churchill’s pocketbook of toxicology,
reviewed by Geoffrey K Isbister (MJA 2002; 176: 291)

 

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Users’ guide to the medical literature: essentials of evidence-based clinical practice; a manual for evidence-based clinical practice,
reviewed by Jeremy Anderson (MJA 2002; 176: 293)

 

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Current diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases,
reviewed by Edwina Wright (MJA 2002; 176: 293)

Obituary

 

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Benedetto (“Ben”) Haneman
by George Wilson (MJA 2002; 176: 292)

   

 

Columns

 

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In Other Journals . . . (MJA 2002; 176: 295)

   
  Cover: Painting “Breast Buds” by Susan Shatter, a breast cancer survivor. Other paintings in this exhibit may be viewed on the Breast Cancer Answers Art Gallery Website <http://canceranswers.org/gallery/surglght.htm>.

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