Volume 223, Issue 3 | The Medical Journal of Australia

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Editor’s choice

Important updates for clinical practice and health policy

Aajuli Shukla

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 113-113 Free

Perspective

New evidence supports a greater focus on streptococcal skin infections to prevent rheumatic fever

Michael G Baker, Julie Bennett, Teuila Percival, Alison Leversha, Jason Gurney and Nicole J Moreland

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 114-116 Open Access

Optimising our response to a potential H5N1 avian influenza pandemic: preparing to protect people working at the human–animal interface

Kerrie Wiley, Catherine King, Holly Seale and Chris Degeling

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 117-119 Open Access

Medical education

Key research skills

Platform trials: key features, when to use them and methodological challenges

Robert Mahar, Steve Webb, Ian Marschner, Andrew B Forbes and Katherine J Lee

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 120-122 Open Access

Ethics and law

Clinicians’ discretion to contact patients’ at‐risk relatives about their genetic risk: new guidance from Australia's privacy regulator provides timely clarification

Jane Tiller and Margaret FA Otlowski

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 123-126 Open Access

When may an adult woman with cognitive impairment still have capacity to consent to an abortion?

Julia P Duffy, Sam Boyle and Casey M Haining

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 127-131 Open Access

Editorial

Squeezing the opioid balloon: the need to assess both intended and unintended consequences of policies that target opioid supply but not demand

Benjamin Daniels and Jonathan Brett

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 132-133 Free

Research

Prescription opioid supply‐restricting policies and hospital use by people prescribed opioid medications, Victoria, 2018–22: a controlled interrupted time series analysis

Suzanne Nielsen, Louisa Picco, Bosco Rowland, Nadine E Andrew, Taya A Collyer, Samanta Lalic, Rachelle Buchbinder, Christopher Pearce, J Simon Bell, Dan I Lubman and Ting Xia

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 134-140 Open Access

Health and economic benefits of improving pre‐hospital identification of stroke in Australian women: a modelling study

Thomas Gadsden, Lei Si, Emily R Atkins, Cheryl Carcel, Xia Wang, Stephen Jan, Mark Woodward and Laura E Downey

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 141-148 Open Access

The incidence of and risk factors for hospitalisations and amputations for people with diabetes‐related foot ulcers in Queensland, 2011–19: an observational cohort study

Yuqi Zhang, Susanna M Cramb, Steven M McPhail, Rosana Pacella, Jaap J Netten, Ewan M Kinnear and Peter A Lazzarini

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 149-158 Open Access

Research letter

Symptom burden, quality of life, and diagnostic journey of people with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Australia, 2021–24: a descriptive patient registry data study

Marie‐Claire Seeley, Gemma Wilson, Eric Ong, Amy Langdon, Jonathan Chieng, Danielle Bailey, Kristina Comacchio, Amanda Page, Dennis H Lau and Celine Gallagher

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 159-160 Open Access

Consensus statement

Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) 2025 consensus recommendations for the screening, diagnosis and classification of gestational diabetes

Arianne Sweeting, Matthew JL Hare, Susan J Jersey, Alexis L Shub, Julia Zinga, Cecily Foged, Rosemary M Hall, Tang Wong and David Simmons

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 161-167 Open Access

Letter to the Editor

Is it time to retire the label “CALD” in public health research and practice?

Sabine Allida and Della Maneze

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 168-168 Free