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Volume 179 Issue 4

18 August 2003

From the editor’s desk

Modern medicine‘s magic

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 177 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): Free

Editorials

Therapeutic arthroscopy for knee osteoarthritis: time to reconsider?

Adam B Chapman and Julian A Feller

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 179-180

Debunking spider bite myths

Julian White

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 180-181

Human gene patents: under whose control?

Dianne Nicol

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 181-182

Pre-eclampsia: a lifelong disorder

Mark A Brown

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 182-184

Research

Effectiveness of ototopical antibiotics for chronic suppurative otitis media in Aboriginal children: a community-based, multicentre, double-blind randomised controlled trial

Sophie Couzos, Traven Lea, Margaret Culbong, Reinhold Mueller and Richard Murray

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 185-190 Free

Local reactions after the fourth dose of acellular pertussis vaccine in South Australia

Michael S Gold, Sara Noonan, Maggi Osbourn, Stella Precepa and Ann E Kempe

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 191-194 Free

Healthcare

Dosing information for paediatric patients: are they really “therapeutic orphans”?

Elaine Tan, Craig R Rayner, Colin B Chapman and Noel E Cranswick

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 195-198 Free

Bites and stings

White-tail spider bite: a prospective study of 130 definite bites by Lampona species

Geoffrey K Isbister and Michael R Gray

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 199-202 Free

Viewpoint

Human gene patents: the possible impacts on genetic services healthcare

Ian R Walpole, Hugh J S Dawkins, Peter C O’Leary and Peter D Sinden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 203-205 Free

The profession

Medical workforce issues in Australia: “tomorrow’s doctors — too few, too far”

Peter M Brooks, Helen M Lapsley and David B Butt

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 206-208 Free

Lessons from practice

Delusional parasitosis mimicking cutaneous infestation in elderly patients

Linda Le and Peter N Gonski

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 209-210 Free

The New Genetics

The human genome and the future of medicine

John S Mattick

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 212-216 Free

Letters

New pharmacotherapies for alcohol dependence: are they being used and what do they cost?

Christopher M Doran, Julia E Fawcett, Anthony P Shakeshaft, Marian D Shanahan and Richard P Mattick

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 218

Gestational diabetes mellitus: accuracy of Midwives Data Collection

Robert G Moses, Alison J Webb and Christine D Comber

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 218-219

Gestational diabetes mellitus: accuracy of Midwives Data Collection

Lee K Taylor

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 218-219

Addressing the shortage of rural physicians in Victoria: maximising rural trainee recruitment

David Simmons, Amanda Fieldhouse, Leslie E Bolitho, Grant J Phelps, Rob Ziffer and Gary J Disher

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 219-220

The effect of female age on the likelihood of a live birth from one in-vitro fertilisation treatment

Nicholas A Tonti-Filippini

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 220-221

The effect of female age on the likelihood of a live birth from one in-vitro fertilisation treatment

Robert P S Jansen

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 220-221

The effect of recalling paracetamol on hospital admissions for poisoning

Corrine R Balit, Geoffrey K Isbister, Andrew H Dawson, Frank F Daly and Ian M Whyte

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 221-223

The effect of recalling paracetamol on hospital admissions for poisoning

Elizabeth A Hender and Jeremy Raftos

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 221-223

The effect of recalling paracetamol on hospital admissions for poisoning

Stephen R Kisely, David Lawrence and Neil J Preston

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 221-223

Whither pathology in medical education?

Barbara M Miflin and Kevin L Forbes

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 223-224

Whither pathology in medical education?

Donald D Beard

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 223-224

Whither pathology in medical education?

H Reginald Magee

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 223-224

Obituary

Geoffrey Henry MooreOAM, MB BS, FRCS(Edin), FRACS, FRACOG

Graeme G D Moore

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 205 Free

Snapshot

Myxoedema and a lost wedding ring

Andrei Catanchin and Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 211 Free

Columns

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