Letters

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

John B Best

The sap of mango trees can produce effects similar to those of poison ivy and poison oak

William Sargent · Paula Ferguson

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

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

David Hughes

Is the “publish or perish” culture breeding dodgy journals seeking to make a profit?

Lileane Liang Xu · Anthony Minh Tien Chau

Clinical guidelines are ideally suited to electronic publication and updating

Richard I Lindley · Richard G Larkins · Erin Lalor

Population-based strategies are needed to prevent breast cancer and to complement identification and treatment

Rosalie Schultz

A growing shortage of academic clinicians provokes calls for an explicit academic training pathway

Harris A Eyre · Rob D Mitchell · William J Milford

More attention to treating women is needed to prevent FASD

Lucy Burns · Courtney Breen · Adrian J Dunlop

A Senate inquiry offers an opportunity to redress the balance

Adam P Vogel · Sarah E Plant

The advent of thrombolytic treatment has focused global research and public awareness on ischaemic events rather than other stroke subtypes

Linda J Nichols · Lindsay Smith · Penny L Allen

Current national monitoring excludes subarachnoid haemorrhage, but a separate national registry to monitor process of care may be warranted

Dominique A Cadilhac · Craig S Anderson

Vertical or horizontal transmission of beta-lactam-resistant gram-negative bacteria has occurred in Australia

Christopher C Blyth · Lynette Pereira · Namraj Goire

The potential for unwarranted terminations being contemplated is concerning

Ronald P Batagol

Natural therapies may be neither natural nor therapeutic

Natalie C Ong · Eric Sham · Brandon M Adams

Government should take the lead in trialling and evaluating new strategies for tackling disease prevention

Roger S Magnusson

Government should take the lead in trialling and evaluating new strategies for tackling disease prevention

Jane M Young · David Currow · Sally Dunlop

Arguments drawing attention to this serious problem must be backed up by the most current and accurate evidence

Richard A Lemen · Arthur L Frank · Colin L Soskolne · Stanley H Weiss · Barry I Castleman

Arguments drawing attention to this serious problem must be backed up by the most current and accurate evidence

Anthony R Johnson · Deborah H Yates

Supportive evidence for routine use of this simple infection prevention measure

Michael J Loftus · Cosmin J Florescu · Rhonda L Stuart

The key to accessible and comprehensive aged care is to base general practices in aged care facilities

Ian Maddocks

Media reports suggest alarming contrast between care available to asylum seekers and that available to Australian nationals

Nigel R Armfield · Anthony C Smith

Why can television broadcast dubious scientific material without disclosing the experts’ conflicts of interest?

Daniel D L Bernal · Luke R E Bereznicki · Gregory M Peterson

Assessing groups of doctors likely to be performing poorly would be better than wholesale assessment

Peter C Arnold

Can safety evidence for tranexamic acid in elective surgery support its use in trauma?

James Jarman · Andrew Brier