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Articles in July 2005 issue of Australian Doctor

• Public let down by advice on alternative medicine.
• Simple start for women's health pioneer.(Brief Article)
• Call to prepare GPs for non-immunised refugees.(Brief Article)
  by Limprecht, Eleanor
• Pharmacists blow trumpet.(Pharmacy Guild of Australia statistics)(Brief Article)
  by Limprecht, Eleanor
• Making mail instant.(Brief Article)
  by Stevenson, Tony
• New thinking on GORD, asthma link.
• In Brief.(higher doses of inhaled corticosteroids offered little or no benefit over low-to-moderate doses to treat asthma)(inhaled corticosteroid may cause fewer side effects such as thrush and hoarseness)(Brief Article)
• Pushing pedals for kids' charity.(travel Australia)(Brief Article)
• No cost blow-out with standards.
  by Anastasopoulos, Christina
• Expert questions immunisation technique.(infant and toddler immunization)(Brief Article)
  by Saunders, Cathy
• Tax carrot suggested for older GPs.(Brief Article)
  by Ferguson, Heather
• Empiricus: our clinical journal commentator.(increasing participation in health surveys)(health education on anxiety)(shame and guilt's effect on substance abuse)
• A week of celebration.(American Medical Association's family doctor week campaign)(Brief Article)
• Row brews over GP specialisation.
• Pesky parrot left with sinking feeling.
• Patients at risk from pacemakers.(Brief Article)
  by Saunders, Cathy
• GPs to log hospital errors.(Brief Article)
• ThinPrep cost-saving claim disputed.
  by Nogrady, Bianca
• Hospitalised trainee GP told to practise, then struck off.(practiced while detained in a psychiatric hospital)
  by Limprecht, Eleanor
• GP role crucial in disaster register.(general practitioners)
• BP finding prompts call for rebate.(blood pressure)(Brief Article)
• A&E fails to detect child abuse.
• RACGP scraps two-day rule.(Royal Australian College of General Practitioners)
  by Anastasopoulos, Christina; Ferguson, Heather
• Further workforce shortages predicted.(Brief Article)
  by Smith, Paul
• Out of gas in more ways than one.
• Small doses.(Brief Article)
  by McCredie, Jane
• Our clinical journal commentator.(size of lungs in professional divers)(aspirin and prostate cancer reduction)(conduct disorder in children linked to later criminal behavior)
• Tricyclics effective for pain and migraine.
• Error plan launched.(Brief Article)
• Access hampers Indigenous care.(Brief Article)
• Dramatic decline in disease.(meningococcal infections)(Brief Article)
  by McCredie, Jane
• FDA under fire over panel's drug links.(New England Journal of Medicine)(Brief Article)
  by McCredie, Jane
• If I were health minister for a day.
• There's rural ... and there's rural.(medical practice )
• Drug-resistant gonorrhoea surges.(Brief Article)
• OTD supervision under scrutiny.
• Acupuncture register plan needles medics.(Brief Article)
• Medical board under fire.(Brief Article)
  by Limprecht, Eleanor
• In my experience.
  by Wijesinha, Sanjiva
• The cost of living.
  by Leeder, Stephen
• GPs taking on the mental health burden.
• Better Outcomes report controversy.(Brief Article)
• GPs will pay for 'woolly thinking'.
• Buccal beats rectal for seizures.(Brief Article)
  by McCredie, Jane
• Hope, not science, driving trust in alternative therapies.(surveys on usage of alternative medicine )(Brief Article)
  by Howe, Megan
• Starved of attention.(usage of alternative medicine)
  by Howe, Megan
• In Brief.
• Small doses.(Brief Article)
• Religious prejudice has no place in theory or practice.
• Power of prayer fails to rise to clinical test.(Brief Article)
  by Nogrady, Bianca
• Family and fun this GP's mantra.(Interview)
  by Walton, Natalie
• Two philanthropists in a pod.(Brief Article)
  by Nogrady, Bianca
• Coping with death.
• Thumbs up for psych advice hotline.(Brief Article)
• If I were health minister for a day --.(personal narratives)
• Boom now, bust later.(Brief Article)
• Red tape strangling asthma plan.(Brief Article)
  by Nogrady, Bianca
• Controlling the data deluge.(storage of medical records electronically)
  by Ferguson, Heather
• The clock is ticking.(service entitites to general practitioners)
  by McMaster, Terry
• PBS: ADHD drug listed.
• Expert struck off over SIDS cases.
• In Brief.(teenage girls tless of an increase in systolic blood pressure in response to stress than male teenagers)(two molecules in pineapple stems have anti-tumour activity)(Indigenous elderly focus of manual to aid communication)
• Fired up in Indian desert.
  by Walton, Natalie
• Mean Girls.(bullying)
  by Carr-Gregg, Michael
• Breast atypia ups cancer risk.