Issues
Volume 202 Issue 11
News
Health professionals feature in honours
Doctors and medical researchers have featured prominently in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list announced last Monday
NHMRC initiatives to improve access to research outputs and findings
Only the most significant research ideas should be funded, and access to research results must remain as open as possible
Wee-Ming Boon · Fiona Leves
MJA Comments, Top 5 MJA articles, Top Insight articles
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Editorials
The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014
In violating children’s basic rights, we seriously compromise their mental and emotional health and normal development
Gillian Triggs LLB, LLM, PhD
Let the children go — advocacy for children in detention by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
The detention of asylum seeker children must stop now
Nicholas J Talley MD, PhD, FRACP · Karen J Zwi FRACP, MRCP, MSc
Perspectives
Call for Australia's ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
Independent oversight of immigration detention is essential to protect asylum seekers’ human rights
John-Paul Sanggaran MB BS, MHMed, BHSc · Deborah Zion PhD
Listen, hear, act: challenging medicine's culture of bad behaviour
There is no place for humiliation, discrimination or any kind of harassment in medical education
Kimberley D Ivory MB BS(Hons), MPH, DRANZCOG
BCG for the prevention of food allergy — exploring a new use for an old vaccine
Could protection from allergies be a collateral benefit of BCG vaccination?
Nicholas Kiraly BM BS, BSc · Katrina J Allen FRACP, PhD, FAHMS · Nigel Curtis MB BS, FRCPCH, PhD
The value of clinical ethics support in Australian health care
Clinical ethics support may benefit professional practice, and we should evaluate it in Australian health care
Ainsley J Newson BSc(Hons), LLB(Hons), PhD
Letters
Curing cancer — child's play
Clinical research embedded in cancer treatment centres improves both outcomes and cure rates at minimal cost
Catherine H Cole MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA
Knowing when to stop antibiotic therapy
Improving use of antimicrobials in Australia requires change in doctors’ practice and PBS arrangements
Angus J Thompson BPharm(Hons), MSc, CGP · Ivan Bindoff BComp(Hons), PhD · Andrew C Stafford BPharm(Hons), PhD, AACPA
Knowing when to stop antibiotic therapy
Unnecessary or unnecessarily long courses of antibiotics promote resistance
Gwendolyn L Gilbert MD, FRACP, MBioethics
Antenatal care for asylum seekers
Two paediatricians who have recently visited Nauru disagree with statements made by IHMS doctors
Hasantha Gunasekera MIPH(Hons), FRACP, PhD · David Isaacs MD, FRACP, FRCPCH
Communicating the health effects of air pollution
Reducing particulate levels in our air should be a health priority
Ben D Ewald BMed, PhD
Imported gluten-free foods: free of gluten?
“Gluten-free” foods are not always gluten-free
Geoffrey M Forbes MB BS, MD, FRACP
Medical negligence system must change
The current legal situation helps neither patients nor doctors
Kerry J Breen MB BS, MD, FRACP · David Weisbrot BA(Hons), JD
Death due to intravenous use of α-pyrrolidinopentiophenone
Clinical care may be handicapped by older testing technology
Simon M Holliday BMed, FAChAM, FRACGP · Huy A Tran FRACP, FRCPA, MD
Clinical focus
Consensus guidelines for the investigation and management of encephalitis
A summary of a position paper for Australian and New Zealand practitioners
Philip N Britton BMedSci, MB BS, FRACP · Keith Eastwood DrPH, MAppEpi, BAppSci · Bruce J Brew MB BS, MD, FRACP · Yusuf Nagree MB BS, FACEM, MBA(E) · Cheryl A Jones MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP
For debate
Government action on diabetes prevention: time to try something new
Four priority areas where government regulation could strengthen Australia’s response
Jenny C Kaldor BA(Hons), LLB(Hons), MSc · Roger S Magnusson BA/LLB(Hons), PhD, GradDipManagingDevelopment · Stephen Colagiuri MB BS, FRACP
Research
Cross border hospital use: analysis using data linkage across four Australian states
Australia-wide linkage of health data is useful for health research, service delivery and planning
Katrina Spilsbury PhD, GradDipPH, MBiostats · Diana Rosman BSc, GradDipComp, MMedSc · Janine Alan PhD · James H Boyd BSc(Hons) · Anna M Ferrante BA, DipEd, PhD · James B Semmens MSc, PhD, GAICD
Part of the fabric and mostly right: an ethnography of ethics in clinical practice
Would clinical ethics support services be useful in Australian hospitals?
Evan Doran BA, PhD · Jennifer Fleming BA, MHA, PhD · Christopher Jordens BA (Hons), MPH, PhD · Cameron L Stewart BEc, LLB(Hons), PhD · Julie Letts MBioeth · Ian H Kerridge MPhil, FRACP, FRCPA
The crux of the matter: Did the ABC's Catalyst program change statin use in Australia?
The ABC’s Catalyst program criticising statins affected people’s willingness to take these important drugs
Andrea L Schaffer BSc(Hons), MSc, MBiostat · Nicholas A Buckley BMed, FRACP, MD · Timothy A Dobbins BMath, PhD · Emily Banks MB BS, PhD, FAFPHM · Sallie-Anne Pearson BSc(Hons), PhD
Case reports
Successful treatment of ACE inhibitor-induced angioedema with icatibant, a bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist
Icatibant may be effective in some patients with airway-threatening angioedema
Phillippa A Pucar MB BS(Hons) · Michael O’Sullivan MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA · Adrian Goudie MB BS, FACEM, DDU · Timothy Marr MB BS(Hons) · Anna Brusch BM BCh, FRACP, FRCPA
Reflections
The pouch of Douglas
Cells multiply like rabbits … One woman’s personal experience of cancer
Tracy Sorensen MCA
John Lachlan Gollan MB BS, MD, PhD, FRACP, FRCP, FACP
John Gollan was a world expert in liver diseases
John C H Morris AO, MBE, FRACP
Careers
Mercy mission to Nepal
Nepal is a country with no rehabilitation physicians, and one 25-bed spinal injuries centre, so when the Kathmandu Valley was devastated by an earthquake and the subsequent aftershocks, an elite team from Melbourne went into action
Cate Swannell
Calendar of events
This calendar will be updated each month. If you have an event you would like to add, please include relevant details in an email to cswannell@mja.com.au
Cate Swannell
Celebrating 10 years of collaboration: the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association and Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand
Tammy Kimpton BMed, FRACGP · Peter J Smith MD, FRACP, FRCPA
Time to move to a glycated haemoglobin-based algorithm for diabetes screening and diagnosis?
Stephen Colagiuri MB BS, FRACP
Tobacco-free generation legislation
E Haydn Walters DM, FRCP, FRACP · Kathryn Barnsley BA, GradDip(SocSci)
Seeking a comprehensive approach to tobacco control for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Sandra J Eades BMed, PhD, FAHMS · Catherine Chamberlain PhD
Time to implement national mental health reform
Ian B Hickie AM, MD, FRANZCP