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Environment and public health

Research

The projected impact of population and high-risk strategies for risk-factor control on coronary heart disease and stroke events

Erkki A Vartiainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Benjamin Philpot, Edward D Janus, Nathalie Davis-Lameloise and James A Dunbar

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 10-15 Free

Research

Syncope and seizures following human papillomavirus vaccination: a retrospective case series

Nigel W Crawford, Hazel J Clothier, Sonja Elia, Teresa Lazzaro, Jenny Royle and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 16-18 Free

Research

The prevalence and diagnosis rates of Klinefelter syndrome: an Australian comparison

Amy S Herlihy, Jane L Halliday, Megan L Cock and Robert I McLachlan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 24-28 Free

Medicine and the media

Deconstructing cancer: what makes a good-quality news story?

Amanda J Wilson, Billie Bonevski, Alison L Jones and David A Henry

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 702-706 Free

Christmas offerings

Lifetime costs of tobacco smoking

C Ross Philpot

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 713

Letters

Trends in the incidence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007

Shanley S S Chong, Wei Du and Julie Hatfield

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 620

Letters

Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: putting evidence into practice?

Margo H Saunders and Anita Peerson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 621-623

Editorials

Lowering Australia’s defence against infectious diseases

Robert M Douglas, Fiona J Stanley, A Rob Moodie, Anthony I Adams and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 567-568

Letters

Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: putting evidence into practice?

Guy R Hingston

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 621-623

Research

Cancer incidence and mortality in Indigenous Australians in Queensland, 1997–2006

Suzanne P Moore, Peter K O’Rourke, Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Gail Garvey, Adèle C Green, Michael D Coory and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 590-593 Free

Letters

Australia needs a national centre for disease control

Julia M L Brotherton, John Kaldor and Marion Saville

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 623-624

Letters

Trends in head injuries and helmet use in cyclists at an inner-city major trauma centre, 1991–2010

Michael M Dinh, Susan Roncal, Timothy C Green, Elizabeth Leonard, Amanda Stack, Chris Byrne and Jeffrey Petchell

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 619-620

Letters

Australia needs a national centre for disease control

Paul M Kelly, Kamalini Lokuge, Hassan Vally and Alexander S Cameron

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 623-624

Letters

Trends in the incidence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007

Clare E Bradley, James E Harrison and Geoffrey I Henley

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 620

Obituaries

Michael Alexander Rozalla OBE, FFPH, MD, DPH, DTM&H

Thea J Rozalla

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): 536 Free

Research

A case-crossover analysis of traffic-related air pollution and emergency department presentations for asthma in Perth, Western Australia

Gavin Pereira, Angus Cook, Annemarie J B M De Vos and C D’Arcy J Holman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): 511-514 Free

Indigenous health

The health of urban Aboriginal people: insufficient data to close the gap

Sandra J Eades, Bronwen Taylor, Sandra Bailey, Anna B Williamson, Jonathan C Craig and Sally Redman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): 521-524 Free

Obituaries

Trevor Cory Beard OBE, MRCS, LRCP, MB BChir, MA, DObstRCOG, MPH, FRACGP

Fiona A Horwood

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): 524 Free

Viewpoint

Taxing junk food: applying the logic of the Henry tax review to food

Molly E Bond, Michael J Williams, Brad Crammond and Bebe Loff

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 472-473 Free

Letters

Caregivers’ intentions regarding pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination for their children

Julie Leask, Maria Yui Kwan Chow, Catherine King and Robert Booy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 485-486

Letters

Has PSA testing truly been a "public health disaster"?

Anthony J Costello and Declan Murphy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (7): 431

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccine uptake in pregnant women entering the 2010 influenza season in Western Australia

Scott W White, Rodney W Petersen and Julie A Quinlivan

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (7): 405-407 Free

Notable cases

Iodine toxicity from soy milk and seaweed ingestion is associated with serious thyroid dysfunction

Bronwyn A Crawford, Christopher T Cowell, Phillip J Emder, Diana L Learoyd, Elizabeth L Chua, John Sinn and Michelle M Jack

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (7): 413-415 Free

Letters

World cup fever

Bridget E Barber, Krispin M Hajkowicz, Vicki L Krause, Kevin G Freeman and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (7): 425

Letters

Congenital anomalies — why bother?

R Brian Lowry

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (7): 428