The Medical Journal of Australia
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📤 1915
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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 Values in health and health care for Indigenous people globally: an umbrella review ✍️ Lynda J Coe, Yvonne Dimitropoulos, Kiri Mealings, Dylan Barnes and Catherine M McMahon
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🔔 New in InSight+ An Australian MD, and a mycologist, have been the first to publish a study on Wood-lover’s Paralysis, a rare toxidrome associated with ingesting species of ‘magic mushrooms.’ Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia An Aboriginal women‐led approach to design a maternal and child health model when cardiometabolic complications are experienced in pregnancy in South Australia
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Listen to the latest MJA podcast! Join Dr Helen Do and Dr Aparna Raniga as they discuss advances in glaucoma and age-related macular disease management 🎧
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🔔 NEW in the MJA Country revealing the way: evaluating Elder‐governed cultural therapy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people with mental health conditions ✍️ Alasdair Vance, Janet McGaw, Jo Winther, Naomi Tootell, Herb Patten and Sandra Eades
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This week in InSight+, Dr Linda Mayer discusses how Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Difference (FASD) should be reframed through a neurodivergent perspective, free of bias and stigma Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Beyond endorsement: reflecting on the 18th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ✍️ Sophie Pitt
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3 days ago
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In this week's InSight+, Dr Jasmine Davis examines what happens when conscientious objection moves from an individual stance to an institutional one Read more:
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3 days ago
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Alison Bush memorial oration: supporting First Nations community‐designed and led maternal health initiatives ✍️ Karel Williams
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4 days ago
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The first successful birth from a transplanted uterus in Australia offers hope to infertile women who wish to one day give birth to their own child. Read more:
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4 days ago
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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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🔔 The latest MJA issue is out now! 🔔 Available online at
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Featuring updates on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection ✍️ Heather McCormack, Troy Combo and Bridget G Haire
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7 days ago
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Australia’s health system is under increasing pressure to meet the needs of an ageing and evolving population. But are we planning for the right kind of care? Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Voluntary assisted dying: challenges in Northern Territory remote Aboriginal communities ✍️ Geetanjali Lamba, Kane Vellar, C Paul Burgess, Camille La Brooy and Paul A Komesaroff
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8 days ago
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It’s becoming increasingly difficult for young adults to tell the difference between accurate and misleading reproductive health information on TikTok. This can shape their reproductive beliefs and ultimately, their reproductive choices Read more:
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8 days ago
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Explaining risk in chronic conditions: the Yolŋu science of signs ✍️ Emma Haynes, Alison Mitchell, Minitja Marawili (Yolŋu) and Dawn C Bessarab (Bardi
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9 days ago
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Australia will soon have its own ‘centre for disease control’. Let’s not repeat the chaos of the US Read more:
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9 days ago
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The contribution of evidence‐based practice and the practice‐based evidence approaches to contemporary Australian psychology: implications for culturally safe practice
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The contribution of evidence‐based practice and the practice‐based evidence approaches to contemporary Australian psychology: implications for culturally safe practice
Adopting a broader and more inclusive approach to evidence represents an important step toward addressing the persistent inequities experienced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples…
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, but at what environmental cost? Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Incidence of GLP‐1 receptor agonist use by women of reproductive age attending general practices in Australia, 2011–2022: a retrospective open cohort study
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As prescriptions of GLP-1 receptor agonists for women increase, so too do the number of unexpected pregnancies, prompting calls for clearer prescribing guidelines Read more:
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🔔 The latest MJA issue is out now! 🔔 Available online at
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Featuring updates on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research
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12 days ago
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Assessment of metabolic dysfunction‐associated fatty liver disease in primary care: a consensus statement summary
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13 days ago
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The latest MJA issue is out now! Available online at
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Featuring updates on chronic liver disease, spinal cord implants, and silicosis research
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Silicosis research priorities for health care, research, and health and safety professionals, and for people exposed to silica in Australia: a research priority setting exercise
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Reducing unprofessional practices in referrals to abortion care: proposing a minimum professional standard ✍️ Shelly Makleff, Bronwen Merner, Kirsten I Black and Louise Keogh
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A warm, wet spring means more mozzies. How to protect yourself from the diseases they spread:
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🔔 New in InSight+ Health health check pop-up at the Boxing Day Test match and participating pharmacies found up to seven in ten people had an undiagnosed cardiovascular risk factor. Read more:
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15 days ago
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The epidemiology of haemodialysis catheter infections in Australia, 2016–20: a prospective cohort study
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Linguistic manoeuvres: obstetric violence camouflages harm and loss of consent from birth ✍️ Harsha Ananthram, Liz Sutton, Rebecca Matthews, Nadine Montgomery, James Titcombe and Ajay Rane
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🔔 New in InSight+ Despite existing guidelines and codes of conduct, many practitioners are failing to refer patients for abortion in a professional manner. Read more:
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🔔 New in InSight+ Most research participants want to know the results of the studies they contribute to, yet many never hear back Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Assessment of metabolic dysfunction‐associated fatty liver disease in primary care: a consensus statement summary
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Rebecca Matthews
19 days ago
🚨 New Perspectives article in
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🚨 “Linguistic manoeuvres: obstetric violence camouflages harm and loss of consent from birth” By Dr. Harsha Ananthram
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Nadine Montgomery
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Prof. Ajay Rane & 🙋♀️ ➡️
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The Medical Journal of Australia
MJA Editor-in-Chief
18 days ago
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
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Australia is about to get a centre for disease control. How will it tackle public health challenges? | Allen Cheng for the Conversation
Immediate issues for the agency will include bird flu, immunisation and misinformation, as well as the challenges of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. But there’s a lot we don’t know yet – and can w...
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The Medical Journal of Australia
Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination
18 days ago
Read the Insight piece from Mary Bagita-Vangana, Holger Unger and
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reposted by
The Medical Journal of Australia
Menzies School of Health Research
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Great to see the work of Menzies Principal Research Fellow Professor
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and Senior Research Fellow A/Prof Holger Unger, alongside collaborator Dr Mary Bagita-Vangana, featured in Insight+.
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Treatment outcomes for people with hepatitis C referred to tertiary care in Victoria, 2021–22: a retrospective observational study
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🔔 New in InSight+ Latest global evidence shows exercise, dairy-rich diet and vitamin D can help reduce falls in aged care homes Read more:
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🔔 New in InSight+ Latest global evidence shows exercise, dairy-rich diet and vitamin D can help reduce falls in aged care homes Read more:
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Treatment outcomes for people with hepatitis C referred to tertiary care in Victoria, 2021–22: a retrospective observational study
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia The epidemiology of haemodialysis catheter infections in Australia, 2016–20: a prospective cohort study
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🔔 New in InSight+ Most research participants want to know the results of the studies they contribute to, yet many never hear back Read more:
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🔔 New in InSight+ Despite existing guidelines and codes of conduct, many practitioners are failing to refer patients for abortion in a professional manner. Read more:
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18 days ago
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Linguistic manoeuvres: obstetric violence camouflages harm and loss of consent from birth ✍️ Harsha Ananthram, Liz Sutton, Rebecca Matthews, Nadine Montgomery, James Titcombe and Ajay Rane
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Silicosis research priorities for health care, research, and health and safety professionals, and for people exposed to silica in Australia: a research priority setting exercise
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18 days ago
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🔔 New in InSight+ Health health check pop-up at the Boxing Day Test match and participating pharmacies found up to seven in ten people had an undiagnosed cardiovascular risk factor. Read more:
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18 days ago
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A warm, wet spring means more mozzies. How to protect yourself from the diseases they spread:
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19 days ago
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Reducing unprofessional practices in referrals to abortion care: proposing a minimum professional standard ✍️ Shelly Makleff, Bronwen Merner, Kirsten I Black and Louise Keogh
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