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    Medical Journal of Australia: Volume 185, Issue 11-12

    581-688
    December 2006
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Journal Activities

2006 — Thanking MJA reviewers

Bronwyn Gaut, 
  • Pages: 581-583
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Editorial

Free Access

The ghost of George Bernard Shaw and Australian doctors’ dilemmas

Martin B Van Der Weyden MD, FRACP, FRCPA, 
  • Pages: 585-586
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Refugee Health

Refugees in Australia: changing faces, changing needs

Mitchell M Smith MB BS, MPH, FAFPHM, 
  • Pages: 587-588
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Camp to clinic: a refugee journey

Katherine Hale MB BS FRACP,  Nicholas J Wood MB BS, FRACP,  Mohamud Sheikh-Mohammed MIPH, MHSc, DipMedLabSci, 
  • Pages: 589-590
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Community perceptions about infectious disease risk posed by new arrivals: a qualitative study

Julie Leask PhD, MPH, DipAppSci,  Mohamud Sheikh-Mohammed MIPH, MHSc, DipMedLabSci,  C Raina MacIntyre FRACP, FAFPHM, PhD,  Alexander Leask MPH, DipAppEpi, BAgSci,  Nicholas J Wood MB BS, FRACP, 
  • Pages: 591-593
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Barriers to access to health care for newly resettled sub-Saharan refugees in Australia

Mohamud Sheikh-Mohammed MIPH, MHSc, DipMedLabSci,  C Raina MacIntyre FRACP, FAFPHM, PhD,  Nicholas J Wood MB BS, FRACP,  Julie Leask PhD, MPH, DipAppSci,  David Isaacs MD, FRACP, FRCPCH, 
  • Pages: 594-597
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Snapshot

McCune–Albright syndrome

Mehdi Hamadani MD,  Lubna Chaudhary MD, 
  • Page: 597
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Refugee Health

Outpatient treatment of malaria in recently arrived African migrants

Desmond T Chih MB BS,  Christopher H Heath FRACP, FRCPA,  Ronan J Murray FRACP, FRCPA, 
  • Pages: 598-601
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Health issues in newly arrived African refugees attending general practice clinics in Melbourne

Albert C D Tiong MB BS(Hons), MAppEpi,  Mahomed S Patel MB BS, FRACP, FAFPHM,  Joanne Gardiner MB BS, DipRANZCOG, BTheol(MCD),  Rowena Ryan MB BS, FRACGP,  Karen S Linton MB BS, DipRANZCOG, FRACGP,  Kate A Walker MB BS, FRACGP,  John Scopel MB BS, FRACGP,  Beverley-Ann Biggs MB BS, FRACP, PhD, 
  • Pages: 602-606
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Christmas Offerings

No laughing matter

Bernard R Beldholm MB BS,  Alice U Lee MB BS, FRACP, PhD, 
  • Page: 606
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Refugee Health

Changing faces: a review of infectious disease screening of refugees by the Migrant Health Unit, Western Australia in 2003 and 2004

Jennifer A Martin MB, BAO, BCh,  Donna B Mak MPH, FAFPHM, FACRRM, 
  • Pages: 607-610
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Christmas Offerings

Patient journey?

Ailin Mohajeri, 
  • Page: 610
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Refugee Health

Severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria in refugee children despite reported predeparture antimalarial treatment

Sarah Cherian,  Joanna M Fagan,  Aesen Thambiran,  Janet Geddes,  David Burgner, 
  • Page: 611
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Research Enterprise

Working to build a healthy Australia: a new era for the NHMRC

Warwick P Anderson BSc, PhD, 
  • Pages: 613-615
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Research misconduct: can Australia learn from the UKˈs stuttering system?

Harvey Marcovitch FRCPCH, 
  • Pages: 616-618
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Australia needs an office of academic integrity

Bruce M Hall MB BS, FRACP, PhD, 
  • Pages: 619-622
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Implementing a research governance framework for clinical and public health research

Stephanie J Poustie MPH, CertCritCare, BN,  David McD Taylor MD, FACEM,  Andrew B Forbes BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD,  Marina A Skiba BEd,  Mark R Nelson MFM, FRACGP, PhD,  John J McNeil MB BS, PhD, FRACP, 
  • Pages: 623-626
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Modern Lifestyle

Preventing traffic accidents by mobile phone users

Michael Regan BSc(Hons), PhD, 
  • Pages: 628-629
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Phone use and crashes while driving: a representative survey of drivers in two Australian states

Suzanne P McEvoy MB BS(Hons), MAppEpid, FAFPHM,  Mark R Stevenson PhD, MPH,  Mark Woodward PhD, CStat, 
  • Pages: 630-634
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Christmas Offerings

The Directors

Garry J Walter MB BS, PhD, FRANZCP, 
  • Page: 634
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Modern Lifestyle

Assessing the wisdom of funding DrinkWise

Wayne D Hall BSc, PhD,  Robin Room, 
  • Pages: 635-636
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Christmas Offerings

Tidal volume

Stephen R Leeder AO, PhD, FRACP, 
  • Page: 636
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Modern Lifestyle

Estimating the cost of alcohol-related absenteeism in the Australian workforce: the importance of consumption patterns

Kenneth J Pidd PhD,  Jesia G Berry BHSc(Hons), GDPH,  Ann M Roche PhD,  James E Harrison MB BS, MPH, 
  • Pages: 637-641
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Power of One

The adventures of an alienist

John H T Ellard MB BS, MRACP, DipPsyMed, FRACP, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, MAPsS, 
  • Pages: 642-645
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Letters

Methaemoglobinaemia — out of the wash comes a blue baby*

Ivan Cher, 
  • Page: 645
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Power of One

The challenge of public health in Australia and the region

Basil S Hetzel AC, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FFPHM, FAFPHM, FTSE, 
  • Pages: 646-650
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Quotable Quotes

Supernovas of style

Ann T Gregory, 
  • Page: 651
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Rural Health Care

Solving the shortage of general practitioners in remote and rural Australia: a Sisyphean task?

Max Kamien MD, FRACP, FRACGP,  W Ian Cameron DRANZCOG, FRACGP, FACRRM, 
  • Pages: 652-653
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Rural and remote health in Australia: how to avert the deepening health care drought

Ann T Gregory MB BS, GradDipPopHealth,  Ruth M Armstrong BMed,  Martin B Van Der Weyden MD, FRACP, FRCPA, 
  • Pages: 654-660
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Vegemite and chocolate sprinkles: Dutch medical students in rural Australia

Jochen Cals MSc,  Peter Joyner DRCOG(Obst), FACRRM,  Robert J Tuffley FRACGP, DRANZCOG,  Geert-Jan Dinant MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 661-663
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

History

Is Sir Astley Cooperˈs 1823 advice to medical students still relevant?

William Coote MB BS, FRACGP, BEc, 
  • Pages: 664-666
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

The possible causes of the pandemic of peptic ulcer in the late 19th and early 20th century

John M Duggan MD, FRACP, FRCP,  Anne E Duggan MHP, FRACP, PhD, 
  • Pages: 667-669
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

The Profession

The demise of professional courtesies: cui bono?

Peter C Arnold BSc, MB BCh, BA, 
  • Pages: 670-671
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Clinical paradigms revisited

Kenneth Wong, 
  • Pages: 671-672
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Clinical paradigms revisited

Ami Schattner, 
  • Pages: 671-672
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

The essence of the art of medicine

C Ross Philpot, 
  • Page: 672
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

The essence of the art of medicine

Norman Shum, 
  • Page: 672
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Matters Arising — Doctors Behaving Badly

Doctors behaving badly?

Hans Peter Dietz, 
  • Page: 673
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Disclosure needs to include the extent of a relationship

Charles M Fisher, 
  • Page: 673
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Drug company sponsored symposia fulfil an important educational role

Ian S Collins, 
  • Page: 673
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Should doctors appear in advertisments?

Adrian M J Pokorny, 
  • Pages: 673-674
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Misleading title

Padraic J Grattan-Smith, 
  • Page: 674
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Doctors behaving badly?

Martin H N Tattersall,  Ian H Kerridge, 
  • Pages: 674-675
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

It is public perception that counts

Martin B Van Der Weyden, 
  • Page: 675
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Christmas Offerings

A possible animal model of naturally occurring multinodular goitre in the Nilgiris of southern India

Biji T Kurien PhD,  Jobin T Kurien, 
  • Page: 677
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Medicine along the Mekong

Melanie Cheng MB BS, 
  • Pages: 678-679
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Celebrity-based medicine

Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FRCP,  Max H Pittler MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 680-681
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

My first Australian

Thomas F Sandeman MD, ChB, FRANZCR, 
  • Page: 682
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

A wing and a prayer

Anthony H Hodgkinson MB BS, FRACS, FAOrthA, 
  • Page: 683
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

The hazards of watching football — are Australians at risk?

Adrian E Bauman PhD, FAFPHM,  Hidde P van der Ploeg PhD,  Tien Chey MAppStats,  Gary Sholler FRACP, 
  • Pages: 684-686
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

Super vision

Henry Kan BSc, MB BS, 
  • Page: 686
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

XmasTM (brand substitution not permitted)

Jonathan Bromley MB ChB,  Nicholas A Buckley MD, FRACP, 
  • Page: 687
  • First Published: 04 December 2006

MJA Christmas Competition

A journey without end

Tanya Grassi, 
  • Page: 688
  • First Published: 04 December 2006