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Volume 190 Issue 11

1 June 2009

From the editor’s desk

Health IT infrastructure: “Yes we can?”

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 609 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 610 Free

Editorials

Disorders of sex development: current understanding and continuing controversy

Garry L Warne and Jacqueline K Hewitt

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 612-613

Should aspirin be used for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes?

Robyn L Woods, Andrew M Tonkin, Mark R Nelson, Helena C Britt and Christopher M Reid

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 614-615

Dealing with multisystem disease in people with a developmental disability

Edward V O’Loughlin, Helen M Somerville and Ernest R Somerville

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 616-617

Research

The effect of compensation on health care utilisation in a trauma cohort

Ian A Harris, Darnel F Murgatroyd, Ian D Cameron, Jane M Young and Michael J Solomon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 619-622 Free

Effectiveness of point-of-care testing for therapeutic control of chronic conditions: results from the PoCT in General Practice Trial

Tanya K Bubner, Caroline O Laurence, Angela Gialamas, Lisa N Yelland, Philip Ryan, Kristyn J Willson, Philip Tideman, Paul Worley and Justin J Beilby

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 624-626 Free

Research enterprise

Building quality in health — the need for clinical researchers*

Graham V Brown and Tania C Sorrell

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 627-629 Free

From bench to bedside

Molecular biomarkers to individualise treatment: assessing the evidence

Chee K Lee, Sarah J Lord, Alan S Coates and R John Simes

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 631-636 Free

Medicine and the media

Smoking and The Simpsons

Guy D Eslick and Marielle G Eslick

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 637-639 Free

Viewpoint

Improving drug safety by locating genetic markers for hypersensitivity reactions

Kathlyn J Ronaldson and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 641-643 Free

Notable cases

Hysterectomy in a phenotypic male with advanced gonadal malignancy and intersex

Jim L Parker, Deborah L Ekman and Lawrence J Hayden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 644-646 Free

Letters

Primary osteosarcoma of the sternum after coronary artery bypass grafting

Laurence Weinberg and Joseph Mathew

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 649

Reactive arthritis due to Chlamydia psittaci associated with HLA-B27 genotype

Peter N Gonski and Bobby Chan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 649-650

Extreme insulin resistance in a patient with pre-existing diabetes during pregnancy: role of U-500 insulin

Vincent W Wong and Alexia V Pape

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 650-651

Avoiding the tragedy of another balcony collapse

Shinichiro Sakata, Craig A McBride, James W Nixon and Roy M Kimble

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 651-652

Towards better health research in Australia — a plea to improve the efficiency of human research ethics committee processes

Sandra C Thompson, Frank M Sanfilippo, Tom G Briffa and Michael S T Hobbs

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 652

Risks of proton-pump inhibitors: what every doctor should know

Francisco J Fernández-Fernández, Gonzalo Pía and Pascual Sesma

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 652-653

Risks of proton-pump inhibitors: what every doctor should know

Adam P Morton

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 652-653

Risks of proton-pump inhibitors: what every doctor should know

Nicholas J Talley, Aneta Dimoska and Kevin Gan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 652-653

Supraventricular tachycardia

Weekitt Kittisupamongkol

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 653

When does severe childhood obesity become a child protection issue?

Matthew A Sabin, Zoe McCallum, Kay Gibbons, George A Werther and Joseph Proietto

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 653-655

When does severe childhood obesity become a child protection issue?

Shirley M Alexander, Louise A Baur, Roger Magnusson and Bernadette Tobin

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 653-655

Varenicline and proximal myopathy

Shelley E Wood and P Gerry Fegan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 655

Remediation required for drug-dose calculation skills in medical students

Kingsley J Whittenbury, Hubertus P Jersmann and Anne L Tonkin

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 655-656

Supplement

Clinical handover: critical communications

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): Open Access

Book reviews

The law and order of infectious diseases

Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 647

Dealing with disasters

Alexander C McFarlane

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 647

More GP tips

Lilon G Bandler

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 650

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 648