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Volume 188 Issue 6

17 March 2008

From the editor’s desk

Instant fixers

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 321 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 322 Free

Editorials

Selecting medical students

David A Powis

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 323-324

Obstructive sleep apnoea — getting to the heart of the matter?

Ronald R Grunstein and Craig L Phillips

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 324-325

Research

Booster seat use by children aged 4–11 years: evidence of the need to revise current Australasian standards to accommodate overweight children

Michael P Fitzharris, Judith Charlton, Megan Bohensky, Sjaanie Koppel and Brian Fildes

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 328-331 Free

Comparing risk-prediction methods using administrative or clinical data in assessing excess in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Ian A Scott, Peter L Thomson and Seshasayee Narasimhan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 332-336 Free

Prescribing of psychostimulant medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children: differences between clinical specialties

David B Preen, Janine Calver, Frank M Sanfilippo, Max Bulsara and C D’Arcy J Holman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 337-339 Free

Outcomes for general medical inpatients with diabetes mellitus and new hyperglycaemia

Scott T Baker, Cherie Y Chiang, Jeffrey D Zajac, Leon A Bach, George Jerums and Richard J MacIsaac

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 340-343 Free

Medicine and the community

Community-based asylum seekers’ use of primary health care services in Melbourne

Ignacio Correa-Velez, Vanessa Johnston, Joanne Kirk and Angeline Ferdinand

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 344-348 Free

Medical education

Medical school selection criteria and the prediction of academic performance

David Wilkinson, Jianzhen Zhang, Gerard J Byrne, Haida Luke, Ieva Z Ozolins, Malcolm H Parker and Raymond F Peterson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 349-354 Free

Review

Effectiveness of complementary and self-help treatments for anxiety in children and adolescents

Ruth Parslow, Amy J Morgan, Nicholas B Allen, Anthony F Jorm, Colin P O’Donnell and Rosemary Purcell

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 355-359 Free

For debate

Consent in paediatric research: an evaluation of the guidance provided in the 2007 NHMRC National statement on ethical conduct in human research

Merle P Spriggs and Lynn H Gillam

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 360-362 Free

Viewpoint

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 363-365 Free

Notable cases

Safe year-long use of a very-low-calorie diet for the treatment of severe obesity

Priya Sumithran and Joseph Proietto

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 366-368 Free

Lessons from practice

Acute unilateral anterior uveitis and scleritis following a single infusion of zoledronate for metastatic breast cancer

Melissa M Moore and Jane M Beith

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 370-371 Free

Letters

Necrotising pneumonia due to Panton–Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

Ada S-Z Cheung, Craig A Aboltins, John R Daffy and Peter A Stanley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 373

NHMRC grant applications: a comparison of “track record” scores allocated by grant assessors with bibliometric analysis of publications

Michael J Davies

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 373-374

Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: how stress can mimic acute coronary occlusion

Laven Padayachee

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 374-375

Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: how stress can mimic acute coronary occlusion

Michael R Ward

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 374-375

Our hearts and minds — what would it take to become the healthiest country in the world?

Bret Hart

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 375

Our hearts and minds — what would it take to become the healthiest country in the world?

Ian T Ring and John F O’Brien

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 375

Health services under siege: the case for clinical process redesign

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): Free

Obituary

John (“Jack”) Henry Alpers AM, FRACP, FRCP(Lond), FRCP(Edin), DCH

Lindon M H Wing

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 348 Free

Book review

It’s all about regional anaesthesia

Ken W Sleeman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 327

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 372