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Volume 179 Issue 7

6 October 2003

From the editor’s desk

Political rhetoric and reality

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 329 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): Free

Editorials

Cardiac rehabilitation: under-referral and underutilisation

Stephen J Bunker and Alan J Goble

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 332-333

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for acute ischaemic stroke: why so much has been made of so little

Jerome R Hoffman

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 333-334

Depressions black and blue: changing the Zeitgeist

Gordon B Parker

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 335-336

Australian healthcare reform: ailments and cures

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 336-337

Research

Utilisation of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation in Queensland

Ian A Scott, Kylie A Lindsay and Hazel E Harden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 341-345 Free

Iodine deficiency in urban primary school children: a cross-sectional analysis

Kamala Guttikonda, Steven Boyages, Cheryl A Travers and Peter R Lewis

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 346-348 Free

Public health

Telephone counselling as an adjunct to nicotine patches in smoking cessation: a randomised controlled trial

Zane R Macleod, Veronica C Arnaldi, Ian M Adams and Margaret A Charles

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 349-352 Free

Crisis

The Bali bombing: civilian aeromedical evacuation

Minh D Tran, Alan A Garner, Colin Xavier, Ion Morrison, Peter H Sharley and William M Griggs

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 353-356

The Bali bombing: the Royal Darwin Hospital response

Didier J Palmer, Dianne Stephens, Dale A Fisher, Brian Spain, David J Read and Len Notaras

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 358-361

Forensic dental and medical response to the Bali bombing

Russell Lain, Chris Griffiths and John M N Hilton

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 362-365

Healthcare

Healthcare reform: possible ways forward*

John Menadue

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 367-369

For debate

Treatment of shoulder dislocation: is a sling appropriate?

George A C Murrell

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 370-371 Free

Review

Croup: assessment and evidence-based management

Dominic A Fitzgerald and Henry A Kilham

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 372-377 Free

MJA Practice Essentials

Endocrinology in the 21st century

Jeffrey D Zajac, Donald J Chisholm and Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 378-378

1: Epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

Jonathan E Shaw and Donald J Chisholm

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 379-383 Free

Matters arising

Evidence-based care and outcomes of acute stroke managed in hospital specialty units

Charles P Denaro and Thomas M Ferrier

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 386

Thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke: revisiting the evidence

Brendon J Smith

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 386-389

Letters

Ethics committees and guardianship legislation

James E Fielding and Heath Kelly

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 390

Ethics committees and guardianship legislation

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 390

Acute liver failure associated with the use of herbal preparations containing black cohosh

Steve Lontos, Robert M Jones, Peter W Angus and Paul J Gow

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 390-391

Hormone replacement therapy: to use or not to use?

Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 391-392

Hormone replacement therapy: to use or not to use?

Rodney J Baber, Justine L O’Hara and Frances M Boyle

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 391-392

Obituary

John Winter AshtonMB BS, FFARCS, FFARACS

Rowan Blogg, Les R King, Bill P Lewis, Herb C Newman and Graham A Syme

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 384 Free

Correction

Quality of care provided by general practitioners using or not using Division-based diabetes registers

Mark F Harris, Fernando A Infante, Brian I O’Toole, Debbie Priddin and Warwick Ruscoe

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 352

Australian healthcare reform: in need of political courage and champions

Mark F Harris, Fernando A Infante, Brian I O’Toole, Debbie Priddin and Warwick Ruscoe

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 339-340

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (7): 385