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Volume 176 Issue 12

17 June 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 565 Free

In This Issue, 17 June 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 567 Free

Editorials

A change in the make-up of medicine

Trevor J Mudge and Dorothy A Dashwood

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 569-570

Scatter irradiation in childhood causes thyroid cancer

Alex K Cohen and Agatha A van der Schaaf

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 570-571

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and "white coat" hypertension: saving costs

Barry P McGrath

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 571-572

The control of meningococcal disease

Robert G Hall

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 573-574

Research

Cosmetic surgery history and health service use in midlife: Women's Health Australia

Rafat Hussain, Margot Schofield and Deborah Loxton

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 576-579 Free

Cost analysis of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in initiating antihypertensive drug treatment in Australian general practice

Ben Ewald and Brita Pekarsky

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 580-583 Free

Thyroid neoplasia following irradiation in adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer

Helen M Somerville, Albert H Lam, Michael M Stevens, Kate S Steinbeck, Graham Stevens and Leigh W Delbridge

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 584-587 Free

Position statement

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

Barry P McGrath, and on behalf of the National Blood Pressure Advisory Committee of the National Heart Foundation of Australia

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 588-592 Free

Viewpoint

Using "anti-ageing" to market cosmetic surgery: just good business, or another wrinkle on the face of medical practice?

Anne L Ring

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 597-599

Clinical update

Does cosmetic surgery improve psychosocial wellbeing?

David J Castle, Roberta J Honigman and Katharine A Phillips

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 601-604 Free

Biological agents as weapons 2: anthrax and plague

Michael Whitby, Tilman A Ruff, Alan C Street and Frank Fenner

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 605-608 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Infectious Diseases

7: Soft tissue, bone and joint infections

Thomas Gottlieb, Bridget L Atkins and David R Shaw, Series Editors:

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 609-615 Free

Letters

Thrombophilia screening and adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with uteroplacental insufficiency

David Morgans

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 617

Safety of hormone replacement therapy after mastectomy

Robert N Hitchins

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 617-620

Safety of hormone replacement therapy after mastectomy

Robert N Hitchins and Christopher M Pyke

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 617-620

Safety of hormone replacement therapy after mastectomy

Christopher B Del Mar and Paul P Glasziou

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 617-620

Safety of hormone replacement therapy after mastectomy

Robert N Hitchins

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 617-620

Genotype–phenotype correlations with personality traits of healthcare professionals: a new use for the Human Genome Project

Dominic A Fitzgerald and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 620

Hyponatraemia and hypokalaemia caused by indapamide

Laurence G Howes, John McEwen and John E Marley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 53-54

Genotype–phenotype correlations with personality traits of healthcare professionals: a new use for the Human Genome Project

Lachlan Brown

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 620

Genotype–phenotype correlations with personality traits of healthcare professionals: a new use for the Human Genome Project

Lachlan Brown

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 620

Hyponatraemia and hypokalaemia caused by indapamide

Laurence G Howes, John McEwen and John E Marley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 53-54

No obituary in the "Death and Dying" issue

H Stuart Patterson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 56

Obituary

Wallace Ironside MB ChB, DipPsyMed, FAPsyA, MD, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, FRACP

Graeme C Smith

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 593 Free

Book reviews

Be warned — this book may change your life

Alexandra L Barratt

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12):

Snapshot

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Dan Harmelin

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (12): 619 Free

Columns

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