The Medical Journal of Australia
@mja.com.au
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The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is Australia's leading peer-reviewed general medical journal.
🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia What fully funded public schools could do ✍️ Pasi Sahlberg and Trevor Cobbold
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The power of recognising more: a qualitative study of young people’s perspectives on broader recognition for learning and wellbeing
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Australian and New Zealand joint society consensus statement on genetic testing for monogenic diabetes in adults
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Sharing custodianship of learning: development of an Indigenous Nation‐led learning charter model centring self‐determination and wellbeing ✍️ Hayley McQuire and Melinda Mann
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🔔 NEW in the MJA The detection of avian influenza virus in human pathology laboratories in Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific nations ✍️ Lisa M Sedger, Vishal Ahuja, Katherine A Lau, Deane L Byers, Torsten Theis, Peter D Kirkland and Catherine Pitman
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The First Future Healthy Countdown 2030 progress report: tracking Australian children and young people’s health and wellbeing to drive accountability
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Cause‐specific mortality among Queensland people with cirrhosis, by cirrhosis aetiology and decompensation status, 2007–22: a retrospective cohort study
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Addressing the unnatural divide: why health and education are the necessary foundations of equitable child outcomes ✍️ Pasi Sahlberg, Angelica Ojinnaka‐Psillakis and Sharon R Goldfeld
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Future Healthy Countdown 2030: learning and employment pathways for healthy children and young people Available now as a supplement in the MJA:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Opioids and the challenges of managing chronic non‐cancer pain in rural Australia: a qualitative study ✍️ Jessica A Thomas, Jill Benson, Philip Davidson and Paul R Ward
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Here’s why a plan to turn private hospital giant Healthscope into a charity is stirring debate
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Here’s why a plan to turn private hospital giant Healthscope into a charity is stirring debate
Back in May, the parent companies of private hospital operator Healthscope fell into receivership, burdened
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Federal health workforce policy in Australia and its implications: a descriptive policy document review ✍️ Stephanie M Topp, Thu Nguyen and Lana M Elliott
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People experiencing the impacts of complex trauma benefit from medical practice which is trauma-informed, writes Blue Knot Foundation president, Dr Cathy Kezelman Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Building a health workforce to meet future population needs ✍️ Shona M Bates, Ben Harris‐Roxas and Patricia M Davidson
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This week, InSight+ spoke with leading Australian autism experts about why Trump and RFK Jr are using autism as a political wedge issue. Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Medicolegal consequences of doctors accepting bequests and gifts under a patient’s will ✍️ Nicole E Kroesche, Tina L Cockburn, Kelly Purser and Karen A Sullivan
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🔔 This week in InSight+ Australia’s first evidence-based guidelines for male infertility will serve as a long overdue clinical aid to practitioners who provide fertility care to men. Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Splenic injury in severe cases of the zoonoses Q fever and rickettsial infection: diagnostic challenges ✍️ Ashleigh Drury, Philippa Harrison and Aiveen Bannan
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Australians living with severe mental illness continue to die around 15 years earlier than the general population due to preventable physical health conditions, prompting calls for lifestyle interventions to become a core part of mental health care. Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Mild traumatic brain injury and concussion and persisting post‐concussion symptoms: new guidelines to support evidence‐based assessment and management in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand 👉
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🔔 This week in InSight+ Are we at the point where not using AI in medicine poses risk? Read more:
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Listen to the latest MJA podcast, where Associate Professor Darren Katz discuses Australia's first male infertility guidelines:
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MJA Podcasts 2025 Episode 21: Australia's first male infertility guidelines
Australia now has its first Male Infertility guidelines.The Guidelines are featured today as an Online First ahead of their official publication in MJA later this year.Associate Professor Darren Katz…
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The first Australian evidence‐based guidelines on male infertility ✍️ Darren J. Katz, Liza O’Donnell, Robert I. McLachlan, Tim J. Moss, Clare V. Boothroyd, Veena Jayadev and Sarah R. Catford
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The latest MJA issue is out now! Available online at
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Eat kiwifruit for constipation, new guidelines say. But ditch the high-fibre diet 👉
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Clinical practice guidelines for hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance for people at high risk in Australia: summary of recommendations 👉
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This week in InSight+ The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare has resulted in a gap of understanding in how AI can best serve Indigenous people Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the MJA Medication delivery and dispensing interval preferences of people who use antihypertensive medications in Australia ✍️ Carissa Bonner, Michael A Fajardo, Rachael M Keast, Emily Atkins, Niamh Chapman, Kristie R Weir, Anthony Rodgers and Aletta E Schutte
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This week in InSight+ The phasing out of anaesthetic gasses with high climate impact is having a positive impact on health care’s carbon footprint, according to new research Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the MJA Effectiveness of COVID‐19 vaccine boosters for reducing COVID‐19 mortality among people aged 65 years or older, Australia, August 2023 – February 2024: a retrospective observational cohort study ✍️ Bette Liu, Anish Scaria, Sandrine Stepien and Kristine Macartney
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This week in InSight+ There is mounting evidence that too many people placed on community treatment orders don’t experience the potential benefits, such as minimising admissions to hospital Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the MJA Identifying modifiable causes of stress in clinicians and administrators working in New South Wales psychiatric emergency care centres, 2023–24 ✍️ Jacqueline P Huber, Alyssa Milton, Matthew Brewer, Kat Fry, Sean Evans, Jason Coulthard and Nicholas Glozier
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🔔 This week in InSight+ New data shows wide variation in university graduates entering general practice and rural generalist training 👉 Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The first live term birth following uterus transplantation in Australia 👉
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A recently released report by the Lancet Psychiatry Physical Health Commission highlights how prescribers and patients can make evidence-based decisions in maximising benefit and minimising side-effects from psychiatric medications. Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Greenhouse gas emissions associated with anaesthetic gases in Australia, 2002–2022: a retrospective descriptive analysis ✍️ Krista Verlis, Jessica F Davies, Forbes McGain, Hayden Burch, Alexandra L Barratt and Luise Kazda
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The latest MJA issue is out now! Available online at
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Australia: how its current commercial model for diagnosis and treatment is encouraging misdiagnosis ✍️ Richard CJ Bradlow, Ferghal Armstrong and Edward Ogden
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A new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia examines the complex interplay of socio-economic position with ten of Australia’s most prevalent chronic diseases. Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The forgotten pandemic: Hong Kong influenza in Australia (1968–1970) ✍️ Matthew Brown, Alan W Hampson and John Gerrard
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An Indigenous-led cancer prevention and care project will create better connections, communication, and cultural safety, in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Northern Queensland Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia A case of Lyme carditis in a returned traveller: a rare cause of reversible heart block in Australia ✍️ Eunice Chuah, Hari Sritharan, Zachariah Seidman, Avedis A Ekmejian and Karin Chia
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🔔 New in InSight+ A diverse group of health system organisations from across Australia are sharing their knowledge and expertise of what works in reducing health care emissions, and where to focus next. Read more:
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NEW in the MJA From words to action: time for Australia to take shared decision making implementation seriously Tammy C Hoffmann, Kirsten J McCaffery, France Légaré, Mina Bakhit and Marguerite Tracy, For the Australian Shared Decision Making Research Network
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🔔 New in InSight+ Recent legislation mandated uploading of radiology results to My Health Record with an imposed a 7-day delay in the patient accessing their results. But are there risks to such a delay? Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The importance of universal child and family health services for equitable early development ✍️ Anna MH Price, Elodie O’Connor and Sharon R Goldfeld
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🔔 New in InSight+ Australian researchers unlocking secrets of COVID-19 may have landed on new ways to reduce organ injury from heart attacks and stroke Read more:
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Listen to the latest MJA podcast, as Professor Vivienne Milch discusses the National Lung Cancer Screening Program 🎧
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🔔 This week in InSight+ Conjoint Professor Carolyn Hullick discusses the findings of the landmark Sepsis Epidemiology Report Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Socio‐economic position and the prevalence of ten chronic diseases in Australia, 2021: a whole of population census data analysis ✍️ Joanna Y Gong, Emily D Williams, Agus Salim, Spiros Fourlanos, Jonathan E Shaw and Dianna J Magliano
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