Last week, at a ceremony on the University of Wollongong campus on the beautiful lands of the Wandi Wandian and Dharawal Peoples @mja.com.au were honoured to receive a walking stick from Uncle Paul Scott who carved it for the 2025 Special Issue on Indigenous Health. www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Key finding: "Extreme heat, floods, bushfires, poor air quality & communicable diseases will escalate health risks. Those with pre-existing health conditions, including mental ill-health, are most at risk. This includes the very young & our older populations... www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

It's been a long road to an Australian CDC - and one of the first discussions of this was in a conference report published back in 1987 in @mja.com.au onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Australian CDC will provide central, credible information, with threats like bird flu, and #PublicHealth misinformation and falling immunisation rates, PHAA CEO Adj Prof Terry Slevin told AAP. The bills to establish the CDC were introduced to parliament on 3 Sept. Read story: shorturl.at/Agzk7

🔔 NEW in InSight+ The National Mental Health Commission’s 2024 Report Card shines a spotlight on the urgent need for a more coordinated and equitable mental health system in Australia. Read more: buff.ly/74Qs4Ct

This week in InSight+ While health care practitioners are aware of “Doctor Google”, they may not be aware that their patients are turning to AI chatbots for mental health information, clinical advice, and real-time support. buff.ly/NHofB2Y

Health care both contributes to and is affected by climate change. InSight+ spoke with researchers who recommend that Australia follow other nations and commit to considering environmental impact in healthcare technology assessments buff.ly/a4PWVgL

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Important new paper published online first in @mja.com.au today on the public health impacts of mining in Australia. We are familiar with the #environmental and #climate effects of mining but the health impacts of mining in the general population are poorly studied. www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Very important stance by the journal. NB this kind of interference and its intensity might seem to be a new thing but it's not uncommon for academic journals to have to resist pressure like this from time to time. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Innovative approaches to fall prevention in community‐dwelling older adults ✍️ Kim Delbaere, Catherine Sherrington, Catherine M Said and Vasikaran Naganathan buff.ly/xIY4PQG

Listen to the latest MAJ podcast, as we celebrate 10 years of clinical care standards with Chief Medical Officer of the Commission Conjoint Professor Carolyn Hullick and Clinical Care Standards Director Dr Alice Bhasale 🎧 buff.ly/pmavSGs

Some history from an Indigenous scholar on the weaponisation of starvation to acquire land www.croakey.org/some-history...

Very proud that the current issue of @mja.com.au focuses on #healthy #ageing - one of today's most important societal health challenges. buff.ly/s3JLbtv Articles on: fall prevention; indicators of quality & safety of long term aged care; models of care across settings supporting ageing in place

Some fascinating history here including reference to the 1934 account in @mja.com.au of Weil's disease in cane workers in Northern Queensland. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Fascinating @mja.com.au podcast on 10 years of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality with Commission Chief Medical Officer Conjoint Prof Carolyn Hullick & Clinical Care Standards Director Dr Alice Bhasale www.mja.com.au/podcast/223/... Hear more at this webinar safetyandquality.tv/ccs-10/

A new study has found significant variations in the quality of aged care across Australia, highlighting the need for targeted quality improvement programs Read more: buff.ly/FQbGHu9

Care about #reproducibility in research & publishing? Join this webinar on Aug 27th, jointly organised by @aimosinc.bsky.social & @ausrepro.bsky.social on statistical reproducibility with @michelenuijten.bsky.social & @tomhardwicke.bsky.social Free - register here qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔔 This week in InSight+ Five stories of excellence from across Australia reveal how health services are using the Clinical Care Standards to drive meaningful improvements in safety, consistency and outcomes for patients. buff.ly/F1ekFXI

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Dialysis care in Australia: a call for reform and innovation ✍️ Dharshana Sabanayagam, Angela Makris, Frederika Sciberras, Nicole J Scholes‐Robertson and Germaine Wong buff.ly/OUoBdVO

Editors of @nejm.org and @jama.com pushing back against US administration's criticism of independent medical journals www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Heard the news about the UK lowering the voting age to 16? www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Here's the rationale for this in Australia - published last year as part of VicHealth Future Healthy Countdown 2030 supplement in @mja.com.au www.mja.com.au/journal/2024... www.mja.com.au/journal/2024...

For the end of #NAIDOC week, here's a round up of the articles in @mja.com.au Special Issue on Indigenous Health titled “Carving our path with spirit, strength and solidarity” The beautiful cover features The Red Belly Black Snake Walking Stick, a powerful carving by Uncle Paul Scott. #NAIDOC2025

The MJA is proud to publish a Special Issue on Indigenous Health titled “Carving our path with spirit, strength and solidarity” Available online at buff.ly/O5ARJkz or as an eJournal at buff.ly/BUAR6CA #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2025

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Smartphone‐activated volunteer responders and survival to discharge after out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2018–23: an observational cohort study buff.ly/MarSfcD

With the threat of H5N1 avian influenza looming, it is essential people working at the human-animal interface are prepared and protected. buff.ly/rpVME4L

Have been looking across Bluesky for @mja.com.au authors, reviewers and collaborators. This is just a starter - if I missed you please reach out! go.bsky.app/Cfpn6SD

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Optimising our response to a potential H5N1 avian influenza pandemic: preparing to protect people working at the human–animal interface ✍️ Kerrie Wiley, Catherine King, Holly Seale and Chris Degeling buff.ly/OUjFXFy

Join us for a special event featuring @mja.com.au Editor-in-Chief, Professor @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, who will give an insider's view on how to outsmart scammers in research and publishing, what to beware of how to thrive. 🗓 Wednesday 16 July 2025, 4–6pm 📍 QUT Gardens Theatre 🎫 bit.ly/42QEGT2

Social media algorithms reward engagement, but chasing likes can cost doctors dearly, writes Dr Maria Li. buff.ly/Xj5XKbg

New research examines how COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations could be reduced through national vaccine campaigns. buff.ly/0GQPKaz

The latest MJA podcast is out now! Join Associate Professors Martin Brown and Fred Joshua as they discuss pulmonary hypertension 🎧 buff.ly/OQueT1J

In @mja.com.au today Annual COVID‐19 vaccination campaigns at same time as flu vaccination could reduce COVID‐19‐related hospitalisations & makes campaign logistics simpler www.mja.com.au/journal/2025... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... @burnetinstitute.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Health minister Mark Butler urges Australians to stay up-to-date with COVID-19 boosters. @Mark_Butler_MP Live news blog: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A new COVID-19 variant is driving up infections in Australia. Here's what to know about NB.1.8.1 -a good summary. Even shorter version, same virus, different jacket; current Aus vaccine has a role, but few people getting it. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Fantastic, important talks on their work on threats to reproducibility in published research from @jabyrnesci.bsky.social & Prof Ben Mol today at the @ausrepro.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social session Essential knowledge for researchers, editors, publisher and funders and readers.

This week in InSight+ The World Medical Association is taking steps to put doctors’ wellbeing front and centre with a review of their Statement on Physicians’ Wellbeing, writes Professor Steve Robson. buff.ly/mvEV27J

This week in InSight+ The World Medical Association is taking steps to put doctors’ wellbeing front and centre with a review of their Statement on Physicians’ Wellbeing, writes Professor Steve Robson. buff.ly/mvEV27J

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Nirsevimab immunisation of infants and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)‐associated hospitalisations, Western Australia, 2024: a population‐based analysis buff.ly/XI811jj

The Medical Journal of Australia joins with medical journals around the world to call for the re-establishment of the World Health Organization’s mandate on addressing the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war buff.ly/rQegqeF

Important upcoming update of @worldmedicassist.bsky.social on Statement on Physicians’ Wellbeing. @drsteverobson.bsky.social‬ writes in @mja.com.au InSight+ this "has the potential not only to make for a better system but for a less fragile workforce." insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/20/worl...

Important topic mforum.com.au/period-pover... - and good to see it discussed in the context of this @mja.com.au paper on menstrual pain in Australian adolescent girls www.mja.com.au/journal/2024...

This issue of @mja.com.au has 2024 @racgp.bsky.social & Healthy Bones Australia guideline for osteoporosis management & fracture prevention www.mja.com.au/journal/2025... Great podcast with Prof Peter Wong from @westmeadinst.bsky.social & Healthy Bones Australia www.mja.com.au/podcast/222/...

Enjoyed this podcast from Dr Michael Wright, President of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, talking on the future of GPs & highlighting research in the @mja.com.au GP issue www.mja.com.au/journal/2025... www.mja.com.au/podcast/222/... @racgppresident.bsky.social @racgp.bsky.social

There's medical interest in #mushrooms right now & and not a lot published from Australia. @mja.com.au has published various papers on the toxicity of #Amanita species, including a case series in 2013 doi.org/10.5694/mja1... and descriptions from 1943 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...

The fabulous people from Australian National CPAS, including Dr Will Grant, pointed me to this podcast featuring an alarming 1964 @mja.com.au paper on Irukandji jellyfish irukandji jellyfish onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1964.tb114424.x podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

At @mja.com.au we were intrigued by this case of what happens if you are unlucky enough to get on the wrong side of a platypus. They may look cute but the hind leg spur is fearsome and their venom packs a punch. Best admired from a distance. www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

What are the major parties offering for health this Federal election? @mja.com.au InSight+ took at look at the policies of Labor, LNP and the Greens. #auspol #ausvotes insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/16/elec...

Listen to the latest MJA podcast, as Professor Peter Wong discusses the updated guidelines to osteoporosis management 🎧 buff.ly/PzO5qAp

As organisations of doctors and humanitarian workers, both DEA and MSF are witnessing how climate change affects human health. Together we have published an open letter to all federal election candidates, calling for climate action to protect human health. Read about it in the @mja.com.au InSight 👇