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    Medical Journal of Australia: Volume 159, Issue 6

    363-432
    September 1993
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Leading Articles

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Rodney Shearman: Twenty-five years of achievement — 1968 to 1993

Andrew Child,  Ian Fraser,  Roger Houghton,  Douglas Saunders, 
  • Pages: 363-364
  • First Published: September 1993
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National Action Plan: Diabetes to the year 2000 and beyond

John N Carter,  Stewart M Dunn,  John R Turtle, 
  • Pages: 364-366
  • First Published: September 1993
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Dietary treatment of idiopathic calcium urolithiasis

Jan M Hill,  Philip W J Harvey,  Simon J Fleming, 
  • Pages: 366-367
  • First Published: September 1993
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What should doctors tell patients?

Loane Skene,  Richard Smallwood, 
  • Pages: 367-368
  • First Published: September 1993

Original Articles

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The prevalence of tuberculosis infection in New South Wales police recruits, 1987-1990

Leone M Coolahan RN, MRN, BA(Hons), MPH,  Michael H Levy MB BS(Hons), MPH, FAFPHM, 
  • Pages: 369-372
  • First Published: September 1993
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Patterns of drug use by participants in the Western Australian methadone program, 1984-1991

Greg Swensen BAppSc (SocWk), MA (Public Policy),  Kenneth F Ilett BPharm, PhD,  Leon J Dusci,  L Peter Hackett LRSC,  Robert T T Ong BSc,  Allan J Quigley MB BS,  Simon Lenton B Psych, M Psych (Clin),  Richard Saker MB BS,  Jane Caporn, 
  • Pages: 373-376
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Placebo-controlled trial of enteric coated aspirin in coronary bypass graft patients: Effect on graft patency

Bernard E F Hockings MD, FHACP,  Mark A Ireland MB BS, FRACP,  Kim F Gotch-Martin RN,  Roger R Taylor MB BS, FRACP, 
  • Pages: 376-378
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A nursing attachment for medical students at Flinders University

Anthony J Radford,  Janet J McIntyre,  Shirley I Heaysman, 
  • Pages: 379-381
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Hearing impairment and hearing aid use in women over 65 years of age: Cross-sectional study of women in a large urban community

John A Ward MB BS, FRACP, MSc,  Stephen R Lord PhD,  Philippa Williams BSS,  Kaarin Anstey BA(Hons), 
  • Pages: 382-384
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A study of the characteristics and needs of people transferred from acute hospitals to nursing homes

Richard B Lefroy MA, MB BS, FRACP, FACRM,  Jilda Hyndman BA(hons), MSc,  Michael S T Hobbs MB BS, DPhil, FRACP,  Margaret Davey RN, MSc, 
  • Pages: 385-388
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Influence of season, age, and sex on renal stone formation in South Australia

Paul W Baker BSc(Hons), PhD,  Peter Coyle PhD,  Renze Bais PhD,  Allan M Rofe PhD, 
  • Pages: 390-392
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Notice Board

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NOTICE BOARD

Julie Scott, 
  • Page: 392
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Other People'S Practices

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Elective term in Kiribati

Rosalie Schute BMedSc, 
  • Pages: 396-399
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Common Problems

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"Is she fit to sign, doctor?" — practical ethical issues in assessing the competence of elderly patients

Paul Finucane FRACP,  Catherine Myser MA,  Stephen Ticehurst FRANZCP, 
  • Pages: 400-403
  • First Published: September 1993

Occasional Review

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The calcium controversy revisited: implications of new data

Richard Prince MD, FRACP, 
  • Pages: 404-407
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One hundred years ago in The Australian Medical Journal†

  • Page: 407
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Medical History

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Tuberculosis and bureaucracy: Bacille Calmette et Guérin: its troubled path to acceptance in Britain and Australia

F B Smith MA, PhD, FRHistSoc, FAHA, 
  • Pages: 408-411
  • First Published: September 1993

Tropical Health

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Tuberculosis in the tropics†

Victoria L Krause MD, DTM&H, FAFPHM,  Warwick J Britton MB BS, BSc(Med), PHD, FRACP, FRCP, DTM&H, 
  • Pages: 412-415
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Blindness in the tropics†

Andrew S Narita MB BS,  Hugh R Taylor MD, FRACO, 
  • Pages: 416-420
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Books Received

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Books Received

  • Page: 420
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Books

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A rum state

F Harding Burns, 
  • Page: 421
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Getting the best picture

Robert Loneragan, 
  • Page: 421
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Don't worry, be happy

Norman Shum, 
  • Page: 422
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Good counsel

Bruce Harris, 
  • Page: 422
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Sanguine surgeons

John P Fletcher, 
  • Page: 422
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Slow learners

Dudley J O'Sullivan, 
  • Page: 422
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Letters to the Editor

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Paralytic shellfish poisons from freshwater blue-green algae

A R Humpage MAppSc,  J Rositano BSc(Hons),  P D Baker BSc,  B C Nicholson PhD,  D A Steffensen PhD,  A H Bretag PhD,  R K Brown BSc(Hons), 
  • Page: 423
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Paralytic shellfish poisons from freshwater blue-green algae

Ian R Falconer PhD, DSc, FRSC, 
  • Page: 423
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Norfloxacin-induced hepatitis

Peter Devoren FRACP,  Katherine Mainstone MB BS, 
  • Pages: 423-426
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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis In children

Kenneth Armstrong FRACP, 
  • Page: 426
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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis In children

E David G McIntosh MB BS, MPH, FRACP,  David Isaacs MD, FRACP, 
  • Page: 426
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Liability for failure to diagnose HIV infection

Graeme Stewart BSc(Med), MB BS, PhD FRACP, FRCPA, 
  • Page: 426
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Has informed consent finally arrived in Australia?

Stanford Harrison BSc(Hons), 
  • Page: 426
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Has informed consent finally arrived in Australia?

Richard Pincus MB BS, FRACGP, LLB, LLM, 
  • Pages: 426-427
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Flu vaccination recall database

Nicholas Cooling BSc(Hons), DipND, BM BS, DipRACOG, FRACGP,  Gwenda Sturge RN,  Frank Meumann BMedSc(Hons), MB BS, DRCOG, DCH, FRACGP, 
  • Page: 427
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HIV in the suburbs

John Kaldor MA, PhD, 
  • Page: 427
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HIV in the suburbs

Kimberly Oman MD, DTMH,  M Lindsay Grayson MB BS, FRACP,  John Turnidge MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA, 
  • Page: 427
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Occupational exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus and other blood-borne pathogens

A Michael Donoghue BMedSc, MBChB, DipObst, DIH, 
  • Page: 427
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Multiply resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae infection

Patrick Byrnes MB BS, FRACGP, 
  • Pages: 427-428
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Multiply resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae infection

Peter Collignon MB BS, BSc(Med), FRACP, FRCPA,  Jan Bell BSc(Hons), BA, 
  • Page: 428
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Protocols for vegetative patients

E A Freeman MB BS, FRCS(Edin), 
  • Page: 428
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Breast feeding after reduction mammoplasty

Donald R Marshall MB BS, FRACS, FACS,  Peter Callan MB BS, FRACS,  Wendy Nicholson RN, IBCLC, 
  • Pages: 428-429
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Improving access to medical courses in Australia for students from geographically isolated areas

D A Powis BSc(Hons), PhD,  T Bristow BA(Hons), 
  • Page: 429
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Alternatives to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS)

N F Babbage FRACGP, FRCSE, 
  • Pages: 429-430
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Alternatives to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS)

Peter Brooks FRACP, FACRM, FAFPHM, 
  • Page: 430
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Evaluation of a new visual blood glucose reagent strip

Germaine de Blieck RN,  Stephen Colagiuri MB BS, FRACP,  Ruth Colagiuri RN,  Anthony Bransgrove MB BS, PhD, 
  • Page: 430
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Should children inhale ß-agonists before exercise?

Bob Leach MSc, 
  • Pages: 430-431
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Resource restraints: what do we tell our patients?

N A Spry MB BS, MRCP, FRCR, FRACR,  D S Lamb MB BS, FRCR, FRACR,  P J Dady MB BS, MSc, MD, FRCP, 
  • Page: 431
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Chronic fatigue syndrome and the medical referee

Derek H Meyers MD, FRACP, 
  • Page: 432
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

K B Orr MB BS, FRCS, FRACS, FACS, 
  • Page: 432
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The use of qualitative research in the development of the "Heartwise" program for general practitioners

Tsung O Cheng MD, 
  • Page: 432
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The use of qualitative research in the development of the "Heartwise" program for general practitioners

Denise Ruth, 
  • Page: 432
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Omission

  • Page: 432
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