AMJ

The AMJ featured the work of students throughout 2009. Global issues were tackled from the student perspective. Many papers reported the undue influence and adverse impact of commercial interests on health care. The AMJ also published investigator led projects with a more traditional clinical focus. Experts in design and or health reform framed the interests of researchers who presented evidence for interventions promoting health and reducing the burden of illness.

John Zaccaria describes his cancer journey and the establishment of the Strike A Chord Foundation.

This review provides an overview on the application of Heat Therapy (HT) combined with conventional cancer treatment modalities, mainly radiotherapy. The article also introduces mechanism of HT, heating delivery modes, thermometry, and it summarizes results of randomized trials form Western research groups.

Diarrhoea is common in children under five years of the age in Nepal. There may be several reasons for the higher incidence of infant as well as maternal mortality in Nepal and other developing countries, but one of the main causes of child death in Nepal is diarrhoeal disease. About one half of the children with diarrhoea under the age of five are not taken to health centers.

To make a difference in closing the gap in life expectancy between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people in Australia, the authors propose that there is a move away from Chronic Disease Self-Management in remote health care, and switch to supporting Community Developed Models of Chronic Disease Care (CDM-CDC).

This study aims to document the pattern of use of antibiotics in the government hospital of Penang state, Malaysia. The team reports the use of high doses of antibiotics in the six months prior to a notable rise in resistant infections.

Fluconazole is generally well tolerated but the possibility of it causing sensitization and allergic reactions should be born in mind, especially in case of long term therapy in patients with recurrent infections. Any new, localised skin lesion, during the course of such therapy, should be considered potentially drug induced unless proved otherwise.