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Volume 176 Issue 6

18 March 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue, 18 March 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 246 Free

Editorials

Is it worth screening women over 70 for breast cancer — or indeed any women?

Alan Rodger

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 247-248

Hard lessons from a randomised controlled trial

Konrad Jamrozik

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 248-249 Free

Pregnancy loss: a major life event affecting emotional health and well-being

Philip M Boyce, John T Condon and David A Ellwood

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 250-251

Bioterrorism in Australia

Richard A Smallwood, Angela Merianos and John D Mathews

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 251-252

Guiding antenatal care

Jodie M Dodd, Caroline A Crowther and Jeffrey S Robinson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 253-254

Research

Are recommendations about routine antenatal care in Australia consistent and evidence-based?

Jennifer M Hunt and Judith Lumley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 255-259 Free

Flipped out of control: single-vehicle rollover accidents in the Northern Territory

P John Treacy, Kerrie Jones and Carole Mansfield

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 260-263 Free

Notable cases

Massive tick (Ixodes holocyclus) infestation with delayed facial-nerve palsy

Mark K Miller

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 264-265 Free

Systematic review

Benefits, harms and costs of screening mammography in women 70 years and over: a systematic review

Alexandra L Barratt, Les M Irwig, Glenn P Salkeld, Paul P Glasziou and Nehmat Houssami

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 266-271 Free

The Research Enterprise

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 and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 273-276 Free

Medicine and the law

Hindsight bias in medicolegal expert reports

Thomas B Hugh and G Douglas Tracy

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 277-278 Free

Clinical ethics

Community versus individual benefit

Bernadette M Tobin, Stephen R Leeder and Ernest R Somerville

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 279-280 Free

EBM: Trials on trial

Specifying interventions in a clinical trial

Jackie K Brighton, Val J Gebski and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 281-282

Does lowering blood pressure prevent recurrent stroke?

Andrew M Tonkin

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 283-284

EBM in action

Safety of hormone replacement therapy after mastectomy

Christopher B Del Mar, Paul P Glasziou, Anneliese B Spinks, Sharon L Sanders and Deborah J Hilton

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 285

MJA Practice Essentials: Infectious Diseases

2: Hospital-acquired infections

Denis W Spelman, Series Editors:

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 286-291 Free

Letters

Hydrofluoric acid burns from a household rust remover

Hugh C O Martin and Michael J Muller

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 296

Renal protection by angiotensin II receptor antagonists in patients with type 2 diabetes

Roger E Peverill

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 296-297

Renal protection by angiotensin II receptor antagonists in patients with type 2 diabetes

George Jerums, Mark E Cooper, Richard E Gilbert and Robert C Atkins

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 296-297

Pharmacological treatment of cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease

William Lam

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 297

Pharmacological treatment of cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease

Henry Brodaty, Jane R Hecker, John A Snowdon and David J Ames

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 297

High prevalence of coeliac disease in a population-based study from Western Australia: a case for screening?

Jeremy Ryan

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 298

High prevalence of coeliac disease in a population-based study from Western Australia: a case for screening?

John K Olynyk, Digby J E Cullen, Guy Vautier, Judith A Collett, Dominic F Mallon and Chris J Hovell

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 298

Evolving evidence and continuing uncertainties for eating disorders

Janice D Russell and Suzanne F Abraham

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 299-300

Evolving evidence and continuing uncertainties for eating disorders

David I Ben-Tovim

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (6): 299-300

Obituary

Benedetto ("Ben") Haneman AM, MB BS, FRACP

George C Wilson

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Columns

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