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Volume 203 Issue 8

19 October 2015

Editorials

Smoking bans in prison: time for a breather?

Tony G Butler and Lorraine Yap

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 313 Free

News

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 309 Free

From the CSIRO

Food avoidance: some answers, more questions

Sinead Golley, Philip Mohr and David Topping

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 314-315 Free

Perspectives

Improving health equity in Australia: practical advice for those ready to act

Jeanette Ward

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 317-318

Salvaging a prison needle and syringe program trial in Australia requires leadership and respect for evidence

Mark Stoové, Carla J Treloar, Lisa Maher, Helen Tyrrell and Jack Wallace

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 319-320 Free

Short reports

Scrapping the Healthy Kids Check: a lost opportunity

Karyn E Alexander and Danielle Mazza

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 321-322 Free

Toilet bowl palsy from prolonged prayer posture

Gregory J Wilson and George T John

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 323

Ethics and compliance hurdles in conducting multicentre low-risk research

Merin V Pariyadan, Elizabeth D Hotham, Sean Turner and Sanjay Garg

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 324-325

Prevalence of e-cigarette users in New South Wales

Timothy C Harrold, Audrey K Maag, Sarah Thackway, Jo Mitchell and Lee K Taylor

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 326

Surviving accidental paraquat ingestion: a limited evidence zone

Elise Davey, Justin Davis and Deborah Friedman

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 327

For debate

Using accountability for mental health to drive reform

Sebastian P Rosenberg, Ian B Hickie, Patrick D McGorry, Luis Salvador-Carulla, Jane Burns, Helen Christensen, John Mendoza, Alan Rosen, Lesley M Russell and Sally Sinclair

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 328-330 Free

Is there value in the Relative Value Study? Caution before Australian Medicare reform

Michael Wright

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 331-333 Free

Research

Legal criteria for involuntary mental health admission: clinician performance in recording grounds for decision

John Brayley, Andrew Alston and Kynan Rogers

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 334 Free

“What should happen before asymptomatic men decide whether or not to have a PSA test?” A report on three community juries

Chris Degeling, Lucie Rychetnik, Kristen Pickles, Rae Thomas, Jennifer A Doust, Robert A Gardiner, Paul Glasziou, Ainsley J Newson and Stacy M Carter

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 335 Free

Cardiac troponin testing for diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in primary care

Helen M Wilcox, Alistair W Vickery and Jon D Emery

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 336 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Fever and rash from Timor: where have you been and when?

Andrew Burke, Stephen R Graves and Nicholas M Anstey

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 338 Free

Snapshot

Roller coasters and cervical artery dissection

Monica S Badve and Sandeep Bhuta

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 339 Free

Reflections

MJA “An IMG in Australia” competition

Dream job Down Under

Catarina Widing

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 340-341 Free

Obituary

Nanette Stacy Waddy, AC, MBE, MB BS, MD(Honoris Causa), FRANZCP

Ian W Webster, Alex D Wodak and Russell Carvolth

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 342 Free

Poem

The angiography of trees

David Francis

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 343 Free

Corrections

Correction: State-based legal requirements for Schedule 8 prescriptions: why so complicated?

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 320 Free

Correction: New guidelines for the management of paracetamol poisoning in Australia and New Zealand

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 320 Free

Careers

Walking the walk

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): Free

From Ig Nobel to “paradigm shift”

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): Free

Around the universities

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): Free