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Volume 188 Issue 2

21 January 2008

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 66 Free

Editorials

Ready, SET, go for academic surgery?

Bruce P Waxman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 67-68

Transfusion-dependent thalassaemia: a new era

Vasili Berdoukas and Bernadette Modell

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 68-69

Rural maternity units: how will they have a future?

Andrew F Pesce

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 70-71

Research

Management and clinical outcomes of transfusion-dependent thalassaemia major in an Australian tertiary referral clinic

Giselle L Kidson-Gerber, Sally Francis and Robert Lindeman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 72-75 Free

Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis at the time of routine Pap smear in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Francis J Bowden, Marian J Currie, Helen Toyne, Clare McGuiness, Lynette L Lim, James R Butler and Nicholas J Glasgow

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 76-80 Free

A randomised crossover study of low-ankle-pressure graduated-compression tights in reducing flight-induced ankle oedema

Melissa J Hagan and Stephen M Lambert

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 81-84 Free

Health care

The first year of a midwifery-led model of care in Far North Queensland

Samantha Scherman, Jan Smith and Megan Davidson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 85-88 Free

Why do interns make prescribing errors? A qualitative study

Ian D Coombes, Danielle A Stowasser, Judith A Coombes and Charles Mitchell

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 89-94 Free

The national inpatient medication chart: critical audit of design and performance at a tertiary hospital

J Alasdair Millar, Robyn C Silla, Glenda E Lee and Ann Berwick

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 95-99 Free

Medicine and the community

Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate

Lachlan J de Crespigny and Julian Savulescu

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 100-103 Free

The World Today

The law and chronic disease prevention: possibilities and politics

Roger S Magnusson and Ruth Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 104-105

For debate

Chlamydia screening — Australia should strive to achieve what others have not

Jane S Hocking, Jennifer Walker, David Regan, Marcus Y Chen and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 106-108 Free

Position statement

Guidelines for the use of infant formulas to treat cows milk protein allergy: an Australian consensus panel opinion

Andrew S Kemp, David J Hill, Katrina J Allen, Kym Anderson, Geoffrey P Davidson, Andrew S Day, Ralph G Heine, Jane E Peake, Susan L Prescott, Albert W Shugg and John K Sinn

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 109-112 Free

Viewpoint

Wa! Ningeningma arakba akina da! (Oh! Now I know, that’s it!)

K S Kylie Lee, Muriel J Jaragba, Alan R Clough and Katherine M Conigrave

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 113-116 Free

Book review

Consultation and communication

Nigel P Stocks

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 116

Diagnostic dilemmas

Mediastinal lymphadenopathy in a patient with previously treated T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Narayan Karanth, Kumar P Prabhash, Pranjali N Karanth, Tanuja Shet, Shripad D Banavali and Purvish M Parikh

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 117-118

Letters

Mandometer treatment of Australian patients with eating disorders

John Court, Cecilia E K Bergh and Per Södersten

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 120-121

Anorexia nervosa and senna misuse: nephrocalcinosis, digital clubbing and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy

Andy K H Lim, David H Hooke and Peter G Kerr

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 121-122

How should stable coronary artery disease be managed in the modern era?

Richard W Harper, Esther M Briganti and Brett H R Forge

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 122-123

How should stable coronary artery disease be managed in the modern era?

Keith V Woollard and Mark A J Newman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 122-123

A national survey on knowledge and perceptions of senior medical students in Australia about generic medicines

Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali, Kay Stewart and David C M Kong

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 123-124

Diagnosing skin cancer in primary care: how do main-stream general practitioners compare with primary care skin cancer clinic doctors?

Clare Heal and Beverly Raasch

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 125-126

Diagnosing skin cancer in primary care: how do main-stream general practitioners compare with primary care skin cancer clinic doctors?

Jeffrey Keir

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 125-126

Diagnosing skin cancer in primary care: how do main-stream general practitioners compare with primary care skin cancer clinic doctors?

Philippa H Youl, Peter D Baade, Monika Janda, Christopher B Del Mar, David C Whiteman and Joanne F Aitken

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 125-126

Glucose tolerance abnormalities in Australian women with polycystic ovary syndrome

N Wah Cheung and Jeremy J N Oats

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 126-127

A shift in the use of drug-eluting stents in Australian private hospitals

Suzanne M McLean and David J Clark

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 127

“The lessons of hospital mistakes”

Catherine E Storey

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 128

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 119