Volume 192, Issue 6 | The Medical Journal of Australia

From the editor’s desk

Rationing versus increased taxes

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 297 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 298 Free

Editorials

Congenital anomalies — why bother?

Carol I Bower, David Lester-Smith and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 300-301

Vertebroplasty, evidence and professional protest

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 301-302

Conference report

Precincts, people and places: forging new partnerships in health innovation

Terry Cutler, Michael Still, James B Moody and Peter M Brooks

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 303-305

Research

The effect of evidence-based medication use on long-term survival in patients hospitalised for heart failure in Western Australia

Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Joseph Hung and Judith Finn

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 306-310 Free

The prevalence and causes of vision loss in Indigenous Australians: the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey

Hugh R Taylor, Jing Xie, Sarah Fox, Ross A Dunn, Anna-Lena Arnold and Jill E Keeffe

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 312-318 Free

A cluster randomised controlled trial to prevent injury due to falls in a residential aged care population

John A Ward, Mandy Harden, Richard E Gibson and Julie E Byles

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 319-322 Free

Use of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with pancreatic cancer in Victoria (2002–2003): a retrospective cohort study

Michael Jefford, Vicky Thursfield, Yvonne Torn-Broers, Trevor Leong, Mario Guerrieri and Tony Speer

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 323-327 Free

Medicine and the community

Does access to compensation have an impact on recovery outcomes after injury?

Meaghan L O’Donnell, Mark C Creamer, Alexander C McFarlane, Derrick Silove and Richard A Bryant

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 328-333 Free

For debate

Vertebroplasty for painful acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures: recent Medical Journal of Australia editorial is not relevant to the patient group that we treat with vertebroplasty

William A Clark, Terrence H Diamond, H Patrick McNeil, Peter N Gonski, Glen P Schlaphoff and John C Rouse

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 334-337 Free

Invited editorial presents an accurate summary of the results of two randomised placebo-controlled trials of vertebroplasty

Rachelle Buchbinder, Richard H Osborne and David Kallmes

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 338-341 Free

Viewpoint

Driving to distraction — certification of fitness to drive with epilepsy

Ernest R Somerville, Andrew B Black and John W Dunne

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 342-344 Free

Lessons from practice

Blindness from suprachoroidal haemorrhage in two patients with age-related macular degeneration on systemic anticoagulation therapy or an antiplatelet agent

Helen M Garrott and Richard J Haynes

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 346-347 Free

Notable cases

Chronic cutaneous ulcers secondary to Haemophilus ducreyi infection

Trisha N Peel, Deepak Bhatti, Jim C De Boer, Ivan Stratov and Denis W Spelman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 348-350 Free

Letters

The new “Indigenous health” incentive payment: issues and challenges

Aniello Iannuzzi

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 354 Free