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Volume 215 Issue 6

20 September 2021

News

News briefs

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 243-244

Perspectives

Australian and New Zealand approach to diagnosis and management of vaccine‐induced immune thrombosis and thrombocytopenia

Vivien M Chen, Jennifer L Curnow, Huyen A Tran and Philip Y‐I Choi

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 245-249.e1 Open Access

Why we should and how we can increase medical school admissions for persons with disabilities

Liz Fitzmaurice, Kenneth Donald, Carl Wet and Dinesh Palipana

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 249-251.e1

Placebos in clinical care: a suggestion beyond the evidence

Christopher G Maher, Adrian C Traeger, Christina Abdel Shaheed and Mary O'Keeffe

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 252-253.e1 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria: an easily missed entity

Muhajir Mohamed and Jeanette Koay

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 254-256.e1

Lessons from practice

Methaemoglobinaemia associated with the atypical use of sodium nitrite as a food additive

Caitlin O’Neill, Zeina Najjar, Andrew Ingleton, Alan Edwards, Andrew Dawson and Leena Gupta

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 256-257.e1

Snapshot

Giant atrial myxoma leading to stroke

Mário LM Silva Júnior, Tereza EFC Albuquerque and Eduardo S Melo

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 258-258.e1

Erratum

Erratum

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 258-258

Editorial

Drug‐induced liver injury caused by herbal and dietary supplements: where to next?

Elliot Freeman and Stuart K Roberts

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 259-260

Research

Drug‐induced liver injury in Australia, 2009–2020: the increasing proportion of non‐paracetamol cases linked with herbal and dietary supplements

Emily Nash, Abdul‐Hamid Sabih, John Chetwood, Georgette Wood, Keval Pandya, Terry Yip, Avik Majumdar, Geoffrey W McCaughan, Simone I Strasser and Ken Liu

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 261-268 Free

The effects on mortality and the associated financial costs of wood heater pollution in a regional Australian city

Dorothy L Robinson, Joshua A Horsley, Fay H. Johnston and Geoffrey G Morgan

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 269-272 Free

Adding saliva testing to oropharyngeal and deep nasal swab testing increases PCR detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in primary care and children

Jane Oliver, Shidan Tosif, Lai‐yang Lee, Anna‐Maria Costa, Chelsea Bartel, Katherine Last, Vanessa Clifford, Andrew Daley, Nicole Allard, Catherine Orr, Ashley Nind, Karyn Alexander, Niamh Meagher, Michelle Sait, Susan A Ballard, Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, Deborah A Williamson, Nigel W Crawford and Katherine B Gibney

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 273-278 Open Access

Research letter

The incidence of cardiac complications in patients hospitalised with COVID‐19 in Australia: the AUS‐COVID study

Kunwardeep S Bhatia, William Gaal, Leonard Kritharides, Clara K Chow and Ravinay Bhindi, on behalf of the AUS‐COVID Investigators

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 279-279 Open Access

Narrative review

Interventional bronchoscopy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: more than a pipe dream

Alan M Carew, Jonathan P Williamson, Claude S Farah, Tajalli Saghaie, Martin Phillips and Alvin Ing

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 280-285

Letters

A hospital‐wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID‐19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field

Diana Egerton-Warburton, Lisa Kuhn and Daphne Flynn

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 286-286.e1 Free

We need a model of health and aged care services that adequately supports Australians with dementia

Jo‐Anne Rayner, Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh and Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 286-287