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Volume 219 Issue 2

17 July 2023

Editor’s choice

Taking a wide view of what affects health and health care

Virginia Barbour

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 45-45 Free

Perspectives

Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for pandemic response products in the World Health Organization pandemic accord need Australia's support

Deborah Gleeson, James Scheibner and Dianne Nicol

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 46-48 Open Access

Sleepwalking towards more harm from asthma

Christine R Jenkins, Philip G Bardin, John Blakey, Kerry L Hancock, Peter Gibson and Vanessa M McDonald

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 49-52 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Unusual hepatitis B virus findings in blood donors

Christopher D Swan, Clive R Seed, Claire E Styles and Iain B Gosbell

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 53-55

Snapshot

Calcinosis cutis of the thumb

Mitchell Hunter‐Dickson and Jessica Conway

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 56-56

Medical history

Treaties for “offshoring” hospital treatment of Asian patients from Christmas Island, 1963–1985: a racist chapter in the history of Australian medical care

Simon Barraclough, Alison Hughes and John Oldroyd

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 57-59 Open Access

Editorials

Advancing our knowledge of people who die by suicide in order to improve suicide prevention

David M Lawrence and Barbara Sheil

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 60-61

Health economic aspects of inherited retinal diseases: looking for cost‐effective treatments

Benjamin Kamien, Rachael Heath Jeffery and Fred K Chen

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 61-62

Research

Psychotropic and other medicine use at time of death by suicide: a population‐level analysis of linked dispensing and forensic toxicology data

Kate M Chitty, Nicholas A Buckley, Jessy Lim, Zein Ali, Jennifer L Schumann, Rose Cairns, Benjamin Daniels, Sallie A Pearson, David B Preen and Andrea L Schaffer

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 63-69 Open Access

The health care and societal costs of inherited retinal diseases in Australia: a microsimulation modelling study

Deborah Schofield, Joshua Kraindler, Owen Tan, Rupendra N Shrestha, Sarah West, Natalie Hart, Liny Tan, Alan Ma, John R Grigg and Robyn V Jamieson

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 70-76 Open Access

Research letter

Consistent mask use and SARS‐CoV‐2 epidemiology: a simulation modelling study

Joshua Szanyi, Samantha Howe, Tim Wilson and Tony Blakely

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 77-79 Open Access

Guideline summary

Clinical practice guideline for deprescribing opioid analgesics: summary of recommendations

Aili V Langford, Christine CW Lin, Lisa Bero, Fiona M Blyth, Jason Doctor, Simon Holliday, Yun‐Hee Jeon, Joanna Moullin, Bridin Murnion, Suzanne Nielsen, Rawa Osman, Jonathan Penm, Emily Reeve, Sharon Reid, Janet Wale, Carl R Schneider* and Danijela Gnjidic*

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 80-89 Open Access

Letters

Young‐onset dementia diagnosis, management and care

Melanie Bahlo

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 90-90

Young‐onset dementia diagnosis, management and care

Samantha M Loi, Monica Cations and Dennis Velakoulis

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 90-90