Volume 215, Issue 9 | The Medical Journal of Australia

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

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Perspectives

The 2021 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb

Paul J Beggs, Ying Zhang, Alice McGushin, Stefan Trueck, Martina K Linnenluecke, Hilary Bambrick, Helen L Berry, Ollie Jay, Lucie Rychetnik, Ivan C Hanigan, Geoffrey G Morgan, Yuming Guo, Arunima Malik, Mark Stevenson, Donna Green, Fay H Johnston, Celia McMichael, Ian Hamilton and Anthony G Capon

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Climate, extreme heat and human health: risks and lessons for Australia

Tarun S Weeramanthri, Simon Quilty and Sharon L Campbell

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 393-395

Breakthrough climate litigation positions courts to combat the health impacts of climate change

Katherine Owens

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 395-397

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Violaceous skin lesions on a returned traveller

David WJ Griffin, Jenny SJ Wong, Orla Morrissey and Cristina Mateevici

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 398-400

Lessons from practice

Mucormycosis: early treatment is the key to survival

Timothy R Holmes, Jenny L Hepschke, Ian Jacobson and Anthony Maloof

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 401-403

Snapshot

Eczema coxsackium

Hsing‐Jou Su and Chun‐Bing Chen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 403-403

Paediatric dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: a neglected scar‐like plaque in a child

Yi‐Teng Hung, Jennifer Wu and Chun‐Yu Cheng

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 404-404

Erythema ab igne

Emily K Kozera and Deshan F Sebaratnam

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 405-405

A non‐healing ulcer: amelanotic melanoma

Michelle KY Chen and Deshan Frank Sebaratnam

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 405-405

Ethics and law

Voluntary assisted dying and telehealth: Commonwealth carriage service laws are putting clinicians at risk

Eliana Close, Katrine Del Villar, Lindy Willmott and Ben P White

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 406-409

Editorials

Who cares about climate?

Hugh Montgomery and Fintan Hughes

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 410-411

Measurement is the key to delivering culturally responsive care

Margaret P Kay

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 412-413

Research

Gun violence in Australia, 2002–2016: a cohort study

Joel Negin, Jane Bell, Lorraine Ivancic, Philip Alpers and Natasha Nassar

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 414-420 Free

OPTIMISE: a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of an intervention to improve primary care for refugees in Australia

Grant M Russell, Katrina Long, Virginia Lewis, Joanne C Enticott, Nilakshi Gunatillaka, I‐Hao Cheng, Geraldine Marsh, Shiva Vasi, Jenny Advocat, Shoko Saito, Hyun Song, Sue Casey, Mitchell Smith and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 420-426 Open Access

Modelling direct and herd protection effects of vaccination against the SARS‐CoV‐2 Delta variant in Australia

Emma S McBryde, Michael T Meehan, Jamie M Caldwell, Adeshina I Adekunle, Samson T Ogunlade, MD Abdul Kuddus, Romain Ragonnet, Pavithra Jayasundara, James M Trauer and Robert C Cope

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 427-432 Free