Volume 199, Issue 8 | The Medical Journal of Australia

In this issue

Saints preserve us from food folly

Stephen Leeder

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 519

Editorials

Patient safety in hospitals — can we measure it?

Neville Board

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 521-522

Head injury prevention for bicyclists — helmets make a difference

Peter A Cameron, Frank McDermott and Jeffrey V Rosenfeld

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 522-523

In brief

From the CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 524

News

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 525

Perspectives

Preventing mental disorders: the time is right

Anthony F Jorm and Nicola J Reavley

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 527

The dark side to Halloween: marketing unhealthy products to our children?

Gillian P Porter and Nathan J Grills

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 528-529 Free

Australia’s servicewomen and female veterans: do we understand their health needs?

Susan J Neuhaus and Samantha L Crompvoets

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 530-532

Letters

Suicide risk assessment: where are we now?

Michael S Gordon and Glenn A Melvin

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 534

Suicide risk assessment: where are we now?

Christopher J Ryan, Matthew M Large and Sascha Callaghan

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 534

Removing the GST exemption for fresh fruits and vegetables could cost lives

J Lennert Veerman and Linda J Cobiac

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 534-535 Free

Updated Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease infection control guidelines: sifting facts from fiction

Robert A Hodgson

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 535-536

Updated Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease infection control guidelines: sifting facts from fiction

Steven J Collins, Eugene Athan and Ann P Koehler

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 535-536

The impact of checking the Australian Organ Donor Register on family consent rates

Hugh O Stephens, David V Pilcher and Helen I Opdam

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 536-538

Clinical focus

The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality: outcomes from the first 10 years

Diana G Azzam, C Adeline Neo, Franca E Itotoh and R James Aitken

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 539-542 Free

Research

Measuring the incidence of hospital-acquired complications and their effect on length of stay using CHADx

Kevin M Trentino, Stuart G Swain, Sally A Burrows, Peter C Sprivulis and Frank F S Daly

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 543-547 Free

Global trends in testosterone prescribing, 2000–2011: expanding the spectrum of prescription drug misuse

David J Handelsman

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 548-551 Free

Summer of sorrow: measuring exposure to and impacts of trauma after Queensland’s natural disasters of 2010–2011

Susan L Clemens, Helen L Berry, Brett M McDermott and Catherine M Harper

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 552-555 Free

Case reports

Primary amenorrhoea with hypertension: undiagnosed 17-α-hydroxylase deficiency

Fiona L Britten, Kimberly B Ulett, Emma L Duncan and Donald A Perry-Keene

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 556-558 Free

Reflections

Dorothy (Billie) Grace Greening MB BS, DObstRCOG, FRACOG, FRCOG

James B Roche

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 559 Free

Arrhythmia management distilled

William F Heddle

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 559

Careers

Crying shame

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): C1 Free

Boost for medical education

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): C2 Free

Heart and soul