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Volume 190 Issue 4

16 February 2009

From the editor’s desk

Real rest and recreation

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 169 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 170 Free

Editorials

The medical care of people with psychosis

Timothy J R Lambert

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 171-172

Clinical research in the United Kingdom: a new era

Edward Byrne

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 172-173

Postcard from New York

Why is health care so expensive in the United States?

Jeffrey D Zajac

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 175

Research

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Australians with severe mental illness

Alexander P John, Radhakrishnan Koloth, Milan Dragovic and Stephen C B Lim

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 176-179 Free

Comparison of the Framingham and United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study cardiovascular risk equations in Australian patients with type 2 diabetes from the Fremantle Diabetes Study

Wendy A Davis, Stephen Colagiuri and Timothy M E Davis

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 180-184 Free

Clinical update

Screening for the metabolic syndrome in patients receiving antipsychotic treatment: a proposed algorithm

Anna J Waterreus and Jonathan D E Laugharne

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 185-189 Free

Clozapine-induced cardiotoxicity: a clinical update

Jamie J Layland, Danny Liew and David L Prior

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 190-192 Free

Viewpoint

National mental health reform: less talk, more action

Sebastian Rosenberg, Ian B Hickie and John Mendoza

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 193-195 Free

For debate

eGFR — use beyond the evidence

Jennifer H Martin, Michael F Fay and Jacobus P Ungerer

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 197-199 Free

Automated reporting of eGFR: a useful tool for identifying and managing kidney disease

David W Johnson, Graham R D Jones, Gavin J Becker and Timothy H Mathew

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 200-203 Free

The Australian Medical Council draft code of professional conduct: good practice or creeping authoritarianism?

Paul A Komesaroff and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 204-205 Free

Medicine and the media

CHAMP: a novel collaboration between public health and the media

Melissa A Sweet, Simon Chapman, Ray N Moynihan and Jonathan H Green

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 206-207 Free

Lessons from practice

Intensive rehabilitation in a patient with inclusion body myositis

Anupam Datta Gupta and Nigel Quadros

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 208-209 Free

Notable cases

Ocular pigmentation associated with clozapine

Armand M Borovik, Martina M Bosch and Stephanie L Watson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 210-211 Free

History

Are the alleged remains of Johann Sebastian Bach authentic?

Richard H C Zegers, Mario Maas, A (Ton) G Koopman and George J R Maat

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 213-216 Free

Letters

Delayed referral of new-onset type 1 diabetes increases the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis

Maria E Craig, Catherine H Wong, Joanna Alexander, Ann M Maguire and Martin Silink

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 219

Assessment of thyroid function during pregnancy: first-trimester (weeks 9–13) reference intervals derived from Western Australian women

Richard L Kennedy, Usman H Malabu and David Porter

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 219-220

Variable uptake of recommended interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Australia, 1982–2005

Marisa T Gilles, Martyn A French and Jan E Dickinson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 220-221

Variable uptake of recommended interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Australia, 1982–2005

Michelle L Giles, Ann M McDonald, Elizabeth J Elliott, John B Ziegler, Margaret E Hellard, Sharon R Lewin and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 220-221

What can alert the general practitioner to people whose common mental health problems are unrecognised?

Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 221

What can alert the general practitioner to people whose common mental health problems are unrecognised?

Kay A Wilhelm

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 221

Massive haemoptysis due to aortobronchial fistula caused by pulmonary hydatidosis

Stefan Buchholz, David Sowden, Troy Stapleton, Peter Pohlner and Craig Wright

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 222

How do the Australian guidelines for lipid-lowering drugs perform in practice? Cardiovascular disease risk in the AusDiab Study, 1999–2000

Michael A Neaverson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 222-223

The hidden cost of varicella

Elizabeth K Nairn, Joshua Wolf and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 223-224

Supplement

Pathways to schizophrenia. A new wave of prevention and early intervention strategies

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): Open Access

Book reviews

Ice – the human cost

Raymond C Seidler

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 196

Better Aboriginal health

Timothy P M Senior

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 1 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 218