Articles

7 January 2002
Vol.176(1)

(1)Editorials Covering Many Medical Specialities-FREE

21 January 2002
Vol.176(2)

(1)Faecal incontinence:common and treatable

(2)Hospital care for Aboroginal and Torres Strait Islanders:appropriateness and decision making

(3)Measles transmission in healthcare settings in Australia

(4)Liver biposy in the 21st century:where and why?

4 February 2002
Vol.176(3)

(1)Nurse-led telephone advice

(2)When is diabetes really diabetes?

(3)Medical commencement oaths:shards of a fractured myth,or seeds of hope against a dispirited future?

18 February 2002
Vol.176(4)

(1)Colorectal cancer prevention

(2)Sedation for endoscopy

(3)Sudden cardiac death in the young

4 March 2002
Vol.176(5)

(1)Management of infectious diseases

(2)A hormonal male contraceptive:from wish to reality

(3)Public reporting of comparative information about quality of healthcare

18 March 2002
Vol.176(6)

(1)Is it worth screening women over 70 for breast cancer-or indeed any women?

(2)Hard lessons from a randomised controlled trial

(3)Pregnancy loss: amajor life event affecting emotional health and well-being

(4)Bioterrorism in Australia

(5)Guiding antenatal care

1 April 2002
Vol.176(7)

(1)Primary stroke prevention:refining the "high risk" approach

(2)Clinical practice guidelines:time to move the debate from the how to the who

(3)Iodine intake and the prevention of thyroid disorders:surveillance is needed

16 April 2002
Vol.176(8)

(1)The Medical Collges:the issue at the turn of the century

(2)Hepatitis C:where are we at and where are we going?

(3)Work-related stress:care and compnesation

(4)Manipulation of the neck and stroke:time for more rigorous evidence

6 May 2002
Vol.176(9)

(1)Communication in the emergency department:separating the signal from the noise

(2)Surgery for epilepsy

(3)Autism,autistic spectrem and the need for better definition

(4)Maternal deaths in Australia

20 May 2002
Vol.176(10)

(1)Parasite elimination programs: at home and away

(2)Rural health:why it matters

(3)Child sexual abuse revisited

3 June 2002
Vol.176(11)

1)Antibiotic guidelines:improved implementation is the challenge

(2)Kidney disease: are you at risk?

(3)Bushfires,air pollution and asthma

(4)Fire ants in Australia: a new medical and ecological hazard

17 June 2002
Vol.176(12)

(1)A change in the make-up of medicine

(2)Scatter irradiation in childhood causes thyroid cancer

(3)Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and "white coat" hypertension:saving costs

(4)The control of meningococcal disease

1 July 2002
Vol.177(1)

(1)Managing ovarian cancer

(2)Can we improve pain management in nursing homes?

(3)Endometriosis

(4)A medical school for the Australian National University

15 July 2002
Vol.177(2)

(1)No Editorials but Dedicated to GP Topics

5 August 2002
Vol.177(3)

1)Halting the growth in diagnostic testing

(2)Surgical treatment for Parkinson's disease

(3)Cancer control and the National Cancer Control Initiative

(4)Is breastfeeding best practice?

19 August 2002
Vol.177(4)

(1)Newborn hearing screening: decision time for Australia

(2)Risks and benefits of postmenopausal combined hormone replacement therapy

(3)The xenotransplantation research debate:time to involve the community

(4)Grief and loss: past,present and future

(5)Otitis media in Aboroginal children:tackling a major health problem

2 September 2002
Vol.177(5)

(1)Children with type 1 diabetes:where are we at?

(2)Potential pitfalls of healthcare performance indicators

(3)Malaria vaccines

16 September 2002
Vol.177(6)

(1)Surviving cardiac arrest

(2)Drug advertising:truths,half-truths and few statistics

(3)Broadening the focus of research into the health of Indigenous Australians

(4)Inhaled steroids: too much of a good thing?

7 October 2002
Vol.177(7)

(1)Horomone replacement therapy:is it safe for breast cancer patients?

(2)Conference promotion in the media:serving whose interests?

(3)Aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events

(4)The HRT furore:getting the message right

21 October 2002 Vol.177(8)

(1)The mental health of immigrant and refugee children and adolescents

(2)Are Australia's healthcare workers stuck with inadequate needle protection?

(3)The Heart Protection Study:implications for clinical practice

(4)Caring for family carers in general practice

(5)Clinical trials and "real world" medicine

4 November 2002
Vol.177(9)

(1)National guidelines for antenatal testing

(2)The Australian coordinated care trials:success or failure?

(3)The ethics of participating in research

2/16 December 2002;Vol.177(11)

(1)Australian health policy research and development:where is it?