🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
Hearing Justice Through a Stethoscope: Advocacy, Climate Change and Medicine's Upstream Responsibilities
✍️ Francis Nona, Nina Lansbury, Rowena Maguire, Britta Wigginton
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Water bankruptcy is a serious public health issue that must be urgently addressed. Health practitioners have a responsibility to lead in shaping a future where water is protected and valued.
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
The Extent and Nature of Lived Experience Engagement in the Development of Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines, 2014–2025: A Scoping Review
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Pancreatic cancer must be recognised as a national health priority. By committing to earlier detection, personalised treatment approaches, and comprehensive supportive and palliative care, Australia can begin to change the trajectory of this disease.
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Childhood and Adolescent Asthma Hospitalisations in Queensland, Australia: A 20-Year Ecological Study Across Climate Zones
✍️ Jialu Wang, Javier Cortes-Ramirez, Janet Davies, Wenbiao Hu
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Biography programs are now a feature of many palliative care organisations in Australia. Volunteers are trained to visit patients and record the life stories they wish to tell, giving patients the opportunity to affirm identity, meaning and purpose in their lives.
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
The Impact of Hospital Bed Occupancy on Patient Flow and Emergency Department Access: A 25-Hospital Cohort Study
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A summary of the new Australian clinical guideline for diagnosing and managing acute coronary syndromes 2025 has been published in the Medical Journal of Australia
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
Strategies for Reducing Access Block and Waiting Time for Patients Seeking Emergency Hospital Care: Results of a Ward-Level Discrete Event Simulation at Queensland's Largest Public Hospitals
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Doctors are increasingly concerned about Queensland gun control reforms that include mandatory mental health reporting of high-risk patients to police.
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
Associations Between Hospital Occupancy, Emergency Department Function and Ambulance Delays, With Modelled Mitigation Strategies: Evidence From Acute Queensland Hospitals
✍️ David Mountain
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This week in InSight+
Dr Emma Hodge reflects on how three years in a medical wellbeing role has shifted her thinking from programs to systems, from individual resilience to organisational responsibility and from short-term fixes to sustainable initiatives.
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The MJA is pleased to announce a call for papers for a Special Collection on Indigenous Health, which will have a publishing run from NAIDOC week 2026 until the end of 2026. The call for papers runs from now until 31 March 2026.
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Bulk-billing rates are up. But there’s more to delivering the best possible care
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Leaders at the Waminda Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation in Nowra, NSW, have partnered with researchers to evaluate the Bulwul Balaang program for young Indigenous women.
They found that the program lays the foundations for lifelong health.
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New research from The University of Queensland suggests that ankylosing spondylitis may start when immune cells carry bacterial components from the gut to the joints in people who are genetically at risk.
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Social connections are key predictors of mental health in older adults. GPs are well placed to screen for social isolation and encourage patients to remain socially active as part of healthy ageing and depression prevention.
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A new calculator tool offers clinicians a quick, evidence-based way to identify patients at higher risk of post-stroke dementia, supporting earlier intervention and, ultimately, helping stroke survivors maintain independence and quality of life for as long as possible.
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
National Screening, National Responsibility: Turning Promise Into Progress for Lung Cancer Care
✍️ Fraser J. Brims
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In November, the Productivity Commission released its final report on the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement.
It found that while some good work is being done, the National Agreement hasn’t provided the vision and direction we need.
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
Hearing Justice Through a Stethoscope: Advocacy, Climate Change and Medicine's Upstream Responsibilities
✍️ Francis Nona, Nina Lansbury, Rowena Maguire, Britta Wigginton
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February 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the overturning of the Harradine Amendment by the Federal Parliament. Thanks to the efforts of many people, this parliamentary action opened the way for a cascade of reforms in abortion care for Australian women
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More GPs will be able to diagnose and treat ADHD – and experts say it’s a positive step
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This week in InSight+
Seileshia Calma Goodrem shares her experience of weight stigma while working in health research
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InSight+ brings you a quick summary of some of the latest research from the Medical Journal of Australia - featuring articles on lived experience in clinical guidelines, bowel cancer screening, and palliative care
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This week in InSight+
If we are to future-proof heart care in Australia, we must reimagine our national commitment to secondary prevention through cardiac rehabilitation
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The Australian Society of Psychiatrists (ASoP) was launched in November 2025 as a member-based, not-for-profit organization to advocate for the provision of best practice mental health care across Australia
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🔔 NEW GUIDELINES in the Medical Journal of Australia
Australian Clinical Guideline for Diagnosing and Managing Acute Coronary Syndromes 2025
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🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
The Association Between Access Block And Ambulance Ramping, And The Impact of COVID-19: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study of 25 Queensland Hospitals
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🔔 This week in InSight+
Hospitals secure federal funding, but health leaders look ahead to ballooning system
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