Volume 200 Issue 8

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Do Australian trends in cardiovascular disease have lessons for other countries?

Peter L Thompson AM, MD, FRACP, FACC

An urgent imperative to close the gap

Robert M Parker

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Reassessing the benefits, harms and risk levels of statin therapy

Ian R Hamilton-Craig PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ

Champions needed to scale up childhood equity efforts, not short-term solutions in ill conceived policy

Kerry Arabena

It’s time for the federal government to step up to the challenges of mental health reform

Ian B Hickie AM, MD, FRANZCP, FASSA · Patrick D McGorry MD, PhD, FRANZCP · Tracey A Davenport BA(Hons), eMBA · Sebastian P Rosenberg BA, MPubAdmin · John A Mendoza BEd, GradDipHlthProm · Jane M Burns PhD · Jonathan Nicholas BA(Hons), MPH · Helen Christensen MPsych, PhD, FASSA

Recent cardiovascular outcome trials confirm the safety of DPP-4 inhibitors, but new questions emerge

Timothy M E Davis DPhil, FRCP, FRACP

Comparing data between centres and nationally is complex but necessary

Tracey A Davenport · Elizabeth M Scott · Daniel F Hermens

Comparing data between centres and nationally is complex but necessary

Ian B Hickie · Elizabeth M Scott · Nicholas Glozier

Comparing data between centres and nationally is complex but necessary

Debra J Rickwood · Nic R Telford · Alexandra G Parker · Chris J Tanti · Patrick D McGorry

Guidelines for managing cardiovascular disease risk don’t preclude combining an ACE inhibitor with an ARB

Christopher J O’Callaghan · Pei Rong · Min Y Goh

Meeting the mental health needs of people with intellectual disability is often challenging

Niki S Edwards · William Alexander · Allyson Mutch

The guidelines are not intended for bariatric surgeons and their teams

John McCallum

The text within the guidelines did not reflect either the established literature or the systematic review

John B Dixon

In support of the central theme of Biegler’s The ethical treatment of depression: autonomy through psychotherapy

P Jane Wilson

Willing participants help cut the costs and time involved in recruitment for cancer research

John L Hopper · Carmel Apicella · Alison J Butt

Sport and exercise medicine focuses on removing obstacles to physical activity at all ages and exercise capacities

David Hughes

Sport and exercise medicine focuses on removing obstacles to physical activity at all ages and exercise capacities

John B Best

Dementia occurs more often and at a younger age in the NT’s Indigenous population compared with the non-Indigenous

Shu Qin Li MD, MPHBN · Steven L Guthridge MB BS, MTH, FAFPHM · Padmasiri Eswara Aratchige MB BS, MSc, MD · Michael P Lowe BMed, FRACP · Zhiqiang Wang PhD · Yuejen Zhao BM, MBiostat, PhD · Vicki Krause MB BS, MPH, FAFPHM

Population density is independently associated with survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Ziad Nehme BEmergHlth(Hons) · Emily Andrew BBiomedSc · Peter A Cameron MB BS, MD · Janet E Bray RN, PhD · Stephen A Bernard MB BS, MD · Ian T Meredith BSc(Hons), MB BS, PhD · Karen Smith BSc(Hons), PhD

The high rate of injuries and fatalities among paramedics is a serious public health issue

Brian J Maguire DPH, MSAEMT-P · Peter F O’Meara BHA, MPP, PhD · Richard F Brightwell PhD, BSc(Hons), PGCertEd · Barbara J O’Neill BSNRN-OCN · Gerard J Fitzgerald MD, FACEM, FRACMA

Although good for patient safety, introducing a short-stay unit did not increase overall bed capacity

Patrick T Russell MD, FRACP · Paul Hakendorf BSc, MPH · Campbell H Thompson MD, DPhil, FRACP

A rare sleep disorder that often results in injuries

Richard G Weeks BAppSc, BM BS, FRANZCP · Jason A D’Costa MB BS, FRACP · Vinod Aiyappan MD, MRCP, FRACP · Ching Li Chai-Coetzer MB BS, FRACP, PhD · Nick A Antic MB BS, FRACP, PhD

The first report of liver lesions being associated with this rare, chronic and progressive condition

Elita Santosaputri* BMedSc, BM BS · Elizabeth J Ellis* MB BS · Sureshkumar Nagiah MB BS, MD, FRACP · Anugrah Chrispal MB BS, MD, FRACP · Anthony Thomas PhD, FRCPA, FRCPath

A short period of disability can be an enlightening experience

John B Best AOMDBS, PhD, DSc(Hon)

As part of our Centenary Year celebrations, we will republish landmark papers and reflections from our archives. This issue we present the editorial for 1 August 1953, in which breakthroughs in the development of an artificial heart are discussed. The full content of this article is available by downloading the PDF.

Incorrect references:: In "The newer contraceptive pills and venous thromboembolism risk" in the 21 April 2014 issue of the Journal (Med J Aust 2014; 200: 376-377), there was an error in the reference numbers shown in the Box. In three instances where reference 4 was cited, this should have been reference 3 instead.

Therese M Foran MB BS, MClinEd, FAChSHM

Medicine and the law are not traditional bedfellows, but is it possible that a lawyer could be good for your health?

Annabel McGilvray

"One in five women first mention domestic violence to their doctor"

Cate Swannell

The elderly are an underused, and under-cherished, resource, according to geriatrician Dr Craig Whitehead

Cate Swannell