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MJA Editorials 2012

MJA Editorials 2012

ISSUE EDITORIAL
16 January 2012 Vol.196;1

(1) Resolutions for 2012



(2) Late mortality after severe traumatic brain injury



(3) Should infants and adults sleep in the same bed together?


6 February 2012 Vol.196;2

(1) Emergency department overcrowding: the solution to any problem is a matter of relativity 




(2) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health: paradise lost?




(3) Improving the health of Australian children entering out-of-home care 


20 February 2012 Vol.196;3

(1) The problem just keeps getting bigger 




(2) Challenges and opportunities for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme 




(3) Patient aggression: a serious issue requiring a dedicated organisational response 

5 March 2012 Vol.196;4

(1) Device regulation: what next?

(2) Coming out: is the Mardi Gras still needed?

(3) Tertiary education institutions should not offer pseudoscientific medical courses


19 March 2012 Vol.196;5

(1) Infectious diseases in Australia — the next decade

(2) The 20th century re-emergence of epidemic infectious diseases: lessons learned and future prospects

(3) Educating Australia’s future doctors


2 April 2012 Vol.196;6

(1) Waiting in pain

(2) Unrelieved pain:a major healthcare priority

(3) Time for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to set its own agenda


16 April 2012 Vol.196;7

(1) A call for national e-health clinical safety governance

(2) Avoiding adverse events with dabigatran by careful selection of eligible patients

(3) New medicines — urgent need to assess outcomes in special groups


7 May 2012 Vol.196;8

(1) The urgency of saving lives through bowel cancer screening

(2) Survival from pancreatic cancer: it’s not just about the surgical mortality

(3) The need for regulation of office-based procedures


21 May 2012 Vol.196;9

Internet pornography and adolescent health

Rebecca J Guy, George C Patton and John M Kaldor
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 546-547.

Does football cause brain damage?

Andrew H Kaye and Paul McCrory
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 547-549.

Evolving psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM: hasten slowly

Paul B Fitzgerald
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 549-550.
4 June 2012 Vol.196;10

 

Disciplinary notations on the Medical Register of Australia

Ian R Freckelton
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (10): 612-613.

Is the end of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in sight?

Geoffrey W McCaughan
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (10): 614.
18 June 2012 Vol.196;11

Gentamicin and ototoxicity: why this drug is still in use

John D Turnidge and John A Waterston
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (11): 665-666.

Are trans fats a problem in Australia?

Gunveen Kaur, David Cameron-Smith and Andrew J Sinclair
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (11): 666-667.
2 July 2012 Vol.197;1

The spirit of the tent embassy: 40 years on

Peter O’Mara
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (1): 9-10.

Indigenous health: New Zealand experience

Mason H Durie
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (1): 10-11.
16 July 2012 Vol.197;2

A dog walking on its hind legs? Implications of the CareTrack study

Ian A Scott and Christopher B Del Mar
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (2): 67-68.

Facilitating better end-of-life care

Geoffrey K Mitchell
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (2): 68-69.

The legitimacy of academic complementary medicine

Stephen P Myers, Charlie C Xue, Marc M Cohen, Kerryn L Phelps and George T Lewith
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (2): 69-70.
6 August 2012 Vol.197;3

The role of statin therapy in patients with lower vascular risk

Anthony C Keech, Jordan R Fulcher and John Simes
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 130-131.

Funding of new cardiac technologies in Australia

David W M Muller
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 132-133.

The future of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia

Graeme P Maguire, Jonathan R Carapetis, Warren F Walsh and Alex D H Brown
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (3): 133-134.
20 August 2012 Vol.197;4

A limb lost every 3 hours: can Australia reduce amputations in people with diabetes?

Shan M Bergin, Jan B Alford, Bernard P Allard, Joel M Gurr, Emma L Holland, Mark W Horsley, Maarten C Kamp, Peter A Lazzarini, Vanessa L Nube, Ashim K Sinha, Jason T Warnock and Paul R Wraight
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 197-198.

Drug treatment for melanoma: progress, but who pays?

Richard F Kefford
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (4): 198-199
3 September 2012 Vol.197;5

Bringing stillbirth out of the shadows for all women having a baby in Australia

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17 September 2012 Vol.197;6

The need and direction for drug law reform in Australia

Alex D Wodak
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 312-313. 

A life-cycle approach to monitoring benefits and harms of medicines

Emily Banks and Sallie-Anne Pearson
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 313-314.
1 October 2012 Vol.197;7

General practice trials: the importance of creating evidence

Mark R Nelson
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (7): 363-364.

Arthroscopy to treat osteoarthritis of the knee?

Rachelle Buchbinder and Ian A Harris
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (7): 364-365.
15 October 2012 Vol.197;8  

Setting up international medical graduates to succeedBalakrishnan R Nair and Mulavana S Parvathy

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (8): 428-429.

 

Treating Crohn’s disease: at “deep” remission and exploring beyond

Crispin Corte and Warwick S Selby
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (8): 430-431.
5 November 2012 Vol.197;9  

“Hospital in the home”: a lot’s in a name

Michael Montalto and Bruce A Leff
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (9): 479-480.

The Australasian Colorectal Cancer Family Registry

Ingrid Winship and Aung Ko Win
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (9): 480-481.

To ED or not to ED: a phone call will not answer

Patrick G M Bolton and Michael H G Golding
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (9): 482-483.
19 November 2012 Vol.197;10

Plain packaging of tobacco products — plainly a success

Mike Daube, A Rob Moodie and Simon Chapman
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (10): 537-538.

Looking for value in health care

Ian A Scott
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (10): 538-539.
10 December 2012 Vol.197;11

Seeking asylum: health and human rights in Australia

Louise K Newman
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (11): 596-597.

Sexual health in Indigenous communities

Christopher K Fairley and Jane S Hocking
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (11): 597-598.

Who gets the care in Medicare?

Mark F Harris
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (11): 598-599. 

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