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Volume 185 Issue 3

7 August 2006

From the editor’s desk

Increased medical school places: a crisis in the making?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 129 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 130 Free

Editorials

Conundrums in community-acquired pneumonia

Patrick G P Charles, Paul D R Johnson and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 131-132

Epidemic Clostridium difficile

Thomas V Riley

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 133-134

Research

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Victoria: rural and urban outcomes

Paul A Jennings, Peter Cameron, Tony Walker, Stephen Bernard and Karen Smith

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 135-139 Free

The burden of chronic kidney disease in Australian patients with type 2 diabetes (the NEFRON study)

Merlin C Thomas, Andrew J Weekes, Olivia J Broadley, Mark E Cooper and Tim H Mathew

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 140-144 Free

Long-term trends in Indigenous deaths from chronic diseases in the Northern Territory: a foot on the brake, a foot on the accelerator

David P Thomas, John R Condon, Ian P Anderson, Shu Q Li, Stephen Halpin, Joan Cunningham and Steven L Guthridge

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 145-149 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Prize: award presentation

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 149 Free

A journey of Indigenous identity

Marshall R Watson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 150-151 Free

Research enterprise

Retractions in the research literature: misconduct or mistakes?

Sara B Nath, Steven C Marcus and Benjamin G Druss

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 152-154 Free

Increased expenditure on Australian health and medical research and changes in numbers of publications determined using PubMed

Kumara Mendis and Rick McLean

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 155-158 Free

For debate

Insulin levels in insulin resistance: phantom of the metabolic opera?

Katherine Samaras, Aidan McElduff, Stephen M Twigg, Joseph Proietto, John B Prins, Timothy A Welborn, Paul Zimmet, Donald J Chisholm and Lesley V Campbell

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 159-161 Free

Viewpoint

Surgical service centralisation in Australia versus choice and quality of life for rural patients

Grant D Stewart, Gareth Long and Bruce R Tulloh

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 162-163 Free

Teaching on the run

Teaching on the run tips 14: teaching in ambulatory care

Fiona R Lake and Alistair W Vickery

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 166-167

Lessons from practice

Hazardous contact: a case of visual loss following Pseudomonas keratitis from novelty contact lens wear

Yi-Chiao Li, Alina Zeldovich, Brian J Chua, Neil J Rowe, Frank J Martin and Kathleen A McClellan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 173-174 Free

Snapshot

Paraspinal tuberculosis

Simon Goldenberg and Nicholas Price

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 175 Free

Correction

Sackings at the Canadian Medical Association Journal and editorial independence

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 144

Obituary

John Howard Tyrer CBE, MD, FRCP(Lond), FRCP(Edin), FRACP

Lawrie W Powell

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 168 Free

Letters

Systemic allergy to topical hexamidine

Raymond J Mullins

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 177

Microbial keratitis associated with overnight wear of silicone hydrogel contact lenses

John A Landers and John L Crompton

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 177-178

TB or not TB: treat to see

Paul L A van Daele, Marleen Bakker, P Martin van Hagen, G Seerp Baarsma and Robert W A M Kuijpers

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 178-179

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: a rediscovered focus in the Capricorn Coast region of central Queensland

Glenn D Francis, Michael Whitby and Marion Woods

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 179-180

Clinical outcomes associated with changes in a chronic disease treatment program in an Australian Aboriginal community

Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 180-181 Free

Clinical outcomes associated with changes in a chronic disease treatment program in an Australian Aboriginal community

Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 180-181 Free

Mutual obligation and Indigenous health: thinking through incentives and obligations

John N Burry

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 181-182 Free

More doctors, but not enough: Australian medical workforce supply 2001–2012

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 182

More doctors, but not enough: Australian medical workforce supply 2001–2012

Catherine M Joyce, John J McNeil and Johannes U Stoelwinder

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 182

Do women in rural and remote areas need different guidelines for management of low-grade abnormalities found on cervical screening?

Stewart Bryant

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 182-183

Do women in rural and remote areas need different guidelines for management of low-grade abnormalities found on cervical screening?

Gerard V Wain, Ian G Hammond, Penelope I Blomfield, Marion A Saville and Margaret Davy

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 182-183

The success and unrealised potential of the National Cancer Control Initiative

J Mark Elwood, Robert C Burton and Michael A Quinn

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 183-184

Book reviews

Ethics, case by case

Wendy L Lipworth

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Practical vulvovaginal perspectives

Gregory K Davis

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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