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Volume 224, published ahead of Issue 1

January 2026

Editor’s choice

MJA in 2026: New Processes and a New Look

Virginia Barbour

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70139

Perspective

Specialty College Selection: Why Change is Critical to Support a Future Rural Workforce

Matthew R. McGrail, Jenny May AM, Katherine Logan

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70121

Inequity Is Our Biggest Killer: Looking Upstream to Tackle the Burden of Disease in Australia

Saman Khalatbari-Soltani, Edward Jegasothy, Seye Abimbola, Anita van Zwieten

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70119

The Need for National Minimum Healthcare Standards in Australian Custodial Settings

Thileepan Naren, Damien Linnane, Dallas Widdicombe, Jocelyn Chan, Stuart Kinner

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70116

The Influence of Managerialism on Medical Professionalism: Challenges, Risks and Future Directions

Evelyn He, Behnam Shaygi, Anousha Yazdabadi, Christen D. Barras, Paul M. Parizel, Hamed Asadi

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70117

A match made in health care: can ethics and governance better support impactful implementation research?

Natalie Taylor, Zhicheng Li, Cathelijne van Kemenade, Jackie Curtis, Patrick Bolton

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70109

How Can We Ensure Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information for Adolescents in Light of Australia's Social Media Restrictions?

Olena Ivanova, Anisa R. Assifi, Danielle Mazza

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70134

Medical education

Snapshot

Localised Herpes Simplex Following Midline Laparotomy

Jessica S. Bulluss, Paul Chee, Matthew J. Verheyden

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70122

Lessons from practice

Treatment Failure and Post-Artesunate Delayed Haemolysis in a Returned Traveller From Uganda With Partially Drug-Resistant Severe Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

Jye Travis, Kate McCarthy, Paul Chapman, Lawrence Huang, Angelica Tan, Qin Cheng, Bridget E. Barber

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70136

Lessons from practice

Diagnosing Acute Kava Dermopathy: A Case Report of a Characteristic Cutaneous Eruption

Ali Abid, Nicholas Allen, Abeer Hagelamin, Christopher Henderson, Artiene Tatian

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70120

Ethics and law

Genomic Newborn Screening: Commodity or Public Good?

Christopher Gyngell, Sebastian Lunke, Danya Vears, Zornitza L. Stark

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70135

Research

Valproate Prescribing for Female Adolescents and Management of the Associated Teratogenicity Risk, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, 2022–2024: A Retrospective Audit of Medical Records Data

Briana Davis, Monica S. Cooper, Michael South, Jeremy L. Freeman, Emma Macdonald-Laurs

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70126

Early Palliative Care and Quality of End-of-Life Care for People With Terminal Cancer, Victoria, 2018–2023: A Retrospective, Population-Based Cohort Study

Chris Schilling, Olivia Wawryk, Anna Collins, Vijaya Sundararajan, Brian H. Le, Jennifer Philip

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70128

Early Cessation of Acetylcysteine Treatment After Paracetamol Overdose (NACSTOP 2): A Non-Inferiority Randomised Controlled Trial

Anselm Wong, Richard McNulty, Sarah E. Hodgson, Naren Gunja, Andis Graudins

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70114

Health Impairment Notifications About Doctors to the Australian Medical Regulator, 2012–2022: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Marie M. Bismark, Dilanka Hettiarachchi, Martin Fletcher, Owen Bradfield, Anu Tayal, Yamna Taouk

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70131

Strengthening Care for Children (SC4C), an Integrated Paediatrician‒General Practitioner Model for Reducing Hospital Referral Rates: a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

Harriet Hiscock, Cecilia Moore, Sonia Khano, Lena  A. Sanci, Kim M. Dalziel, Gary Freed, Douglas I. R. Boyle, Tammy Meyers Morris, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Jane Le, Yvonne A. Zurynski, Susan Woolfenden and Raghu Lingam

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70115

Research letter

Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplantation in South Australia: A Preliminary Evaluation of a 10-Year Experience

Gorjana Radisic, Colleen Etherton and Alice Rickard, Merle Weetra, Denghao Wu, Sanjeev Khurana, Bhanu Mariyappa, Jenny Harrington, Tom Loudovaris, Gordon Thomas, Henry C. C. Pleass, Alex Brown, Thomas W. Kay, Christopher J. Drogemuller, David J. Torpy, Richard Couper, John Chen, Patrick T. Coates

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70129

Adolescent Pregnancy Among Girls Known to Child Protection Services: An Australian Longitudinal Cohort Study Using Data Linkage

Oliver Watkeys, Kimberlie Dean, Kristin R. Laurens, Stacy Tzoumakis, Vaughan J. Carr, Melissa J. Green

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70130

Letter to the editor

Severe Hypoglycaemia Secondary to Chronic Opioid-Induced Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Suppression: An Under-Recognised Phenomenon

Adam Morton

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70125

Severe Hypoglycaemia Secondary to Chronic Opioid-Induced Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Suppression: An Under-Recognised Phenomenon

Michael Do, Annabelle Hayes, Malgorzata Brzozowska

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70124

Implementing Voluntary-Assisted Dying in New South Wales Correctional Settings

Daniel Mogg, Michael H. Levy

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70118

Erratum

Erratum

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70137