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Letters

When does severe childhood obesity become a child protection issue?

Shirley M Alexander, Louise A Baur, Roger Magnusson and Bernadette Tobin

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 653-655

Towards better health research in Australia — a plea to improve the efficiency of human research ethics committee processes

Sandra C Thompson, Frank M Sanfilippo, Tom G Briffa and Michael S T Hobbs

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 652

Varenicline and proximal myopathy

Shelley E Wood and P Gerry Fegan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 655

Risks of proton-pump inhibitors: what every doctor should know

Francisco J Fernández-Fernández, Gonzalo Pía and Pascual Sesma

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 652-653

Effect of swimming pools on antibiotic use and clinic attendance for infections in two Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Yvette Roe and Robyn A McDermott

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 602 Free

Indigenous simulated patients: an initiative in “closing the gap”

Shaun C Ewen, Margo E Collins, Jennifer A Schwarz and Eleanor M Flynn

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 536 Free

Closing the gap depends on ACCHSs

Sophie Couzos and Dea Delaney Thiele

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 541

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003: are people living in remote areas worse off?

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 545 Free

Why Australia needs a national college of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

John Daniels and Sophie Couzos

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 573 Free

The capacity of mainstream alcohol and drug treatment services to respond to the needs of Indigenous Australians

Ann M Roche, Kenneth J Pidd and Vinita Duraisingam

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 582 Free

Inappropriate prescribing for osteoporosis

B E Christopher Nordin, Michael Horowitz and Barry E Chatterton

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (9): 519-520

Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia

Georgina A Sutherland, Deirdre Gartland, Jane S Yelland and Stephanie J Brown

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (9): 518-519

Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia

Lyndsey F Watson, Mary-Ann Davey, Mary A Biro and James F King

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (9): 518-519

Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia

Stephen J Robson, Paula Laws and Elizabeth A Sullivan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (9): 518-519

The medical and retrieval costs of road crashes in rural and remote northern Queensland, 2004–2007: findings from the Rural and Remote Road Safety Study

Susan M Gorton

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 462-463

Patients expect transparency in doctors’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry

Brad S Dalton and Deborah J Richards

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 459-461

The medical and retrieval costs of road crashes in rural and remote northern Queensland, 2004–2007: findings from the Rural and Remote Road Safety Study

Teresa M O’Connor, Heather A Hanks, Mark S Elcock, Richard C Turner and P Craig Veitch

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 462-463

Patients expect transparency in doctors’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry

Martin H N Tattersall and Aneta Dimoska

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 459-461

Safety of nanoparticles in sunscreens

Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 463

What changes are needed to the current direction and interpretation of clinical cancer research to meet the needs of the 21st century?

Maher K Gandhi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 461

Knowing — or not knowing — when to stop: cognitive decline in ageing doctors

David G Fenwick

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 464

What changes are needed to the current direction and interpretation of clinical cancer research to meet the needs of the 21st century?

Ian N Olver and Ian E Haines

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 461

Dealing with “rogue” medical students: we need a nationally consistent approach based on “case law”

Sarah J Abrahamson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 461-462

Quality of Australian clinical guidelines and relevance to the care of older people with multiple comorbid conditions

James Tatoulis, Nancy P Huang and Andrew N Boyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 459

Influenza, marksmanship and the last gasps of the Great War

Timothy J J Inglis

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 462