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Perspectives
Virtual medicine: how virtual reality is easing pain, calming nerves and improving health
Virtual reality has been used to help treat anxiety, control pain, support physical rehabilitation and distract patients during wound care
Brennan MR Spiegel
Developing a sustainable health care system: the United Kingdom experience
High quality care depends on addressing the social and environmental determinants of health and disease
David Pencheon
The Lancet Countdown down under: tracking progress on health and climate change in Australia
Australia is set to join a global initiative to track progress on health and climate change
Ying Zhang · Paul J Beggs
Tackling the worsening epidemic of Buruli ulcer in Australia in an information void: time for an urgent scientific response
Understanding the risk factors for Buruli ulcer is key to developing a health care intervention
Daniel P O'Brien · Eugene Athan · Kim Blasdell · Paul De Barro
Whole genome sequencing provides better diagnostic yield and future value than whole exome sequencing
The higher cost of whole genome sequencing is justified through better diagnostic yields and the potential for future analysis
John S Mattick · Marcel Dinger · Nicole Schonrock · Mark Cowley
Disease-modifying approaches for Parkinson disease
A new era of disease modification in the field of neurodegeneration has differing approaches that will hopefully improve outcomes for people with Parkinson disease
Simon JG Lewis
Exercise: an essential evidence-based medicine
Despite all the evidence, doctors do not regularly prescribe physical activity and exercise
Anita Green · Craig Engstrom · Peter Friis
How exercise medicine has evolved from sports medicine
An evolving medical specialty with the potential to improve the health of all Australians
John W Orchard
An update to the AIS–AMA position statement on concussion in sport
The best approach is to take concussion seriously, treat each case carefully and be conservative with return to sport processes
Lisa J Elkington · Silvia Manzanero · David C Hughes
The gaps in specialists’ diagnoses
Specialists need broader expertise in diagnosing clinical problems
Ian A Scott · Donald A Campbell
Will Australia have a fit-for-purpose medical workforce in 2025?
To produce a fit-for-purpose medical workforce, Australia needs streamlined training pathways in all medical disciplines
Roger P Strasser
Potential solutions to improve the governance of multicentre health services research
We need to improve bureaucratic behaviour in health services research
Robyn Clay-Williams · Natalie Taylor · Jeffrey Braithwaite
Oral disease contributes to illness burden and disparities
Oral health cannot be isolated from physical or mental health and should form part of comprehensive care
Steve Kisely · Ratilal Lalloo · Pauline Ford
Preparation for general practice vocational training: time for a rethink
Improving GP registrars’ readiness for vocational training and transition into practice
Susan M Wearne · Parker J Magin · Neil A Spike
Cord clamping in term and pre-term infants: how should clinicians proceed?
Evidence favours delayed cord clamping in most newborns, but further studies are needed
Graeme R Polglase · Michael Stark
The other source of government funding for medical research that needs reform
Gifted funding runs the risk of bypassing peer review
Anthony F Jorm
Choosing Wisely Australia: changing behaviour in health care
Conversations are key to changing behaviours in a complex health care system
Robyn Ann Lindner
Compassion and evidence in prescribing cannabinoids: a perspective from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
The RACP emphasises the need for caution until there is sufficient quality evidence to support the use of medicinal cannabis
Jennifer H Martin · Yvonne Bonomo · Adrian DB Reynolds
Disease prestige and the hierarchy of suffering
Suffering should not be hierarchical, and care should not be predicated on the prestige that a disease attracts
Louise Stone
Botulinum toxin for spasticity: a case for change to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
Current permissible use of botulinum toxin in Australia does not match newer understandings of human impairment and functioning
Anupam Datta Gupta · David H Wilson
Investing in men’s health in Australia
Building leadership, governance and evaluation capacity to improve men’s health outcomes
James A Smith · Mick Adams · Jason Bonson
Regulating e-cigarettes in Australia: implications for tobacco use by young people
Policy decisions surrounding the regulation of e-cigarettes need to account for their potential unintended harm on youth
Luke Wolfenden · Emily Stockings · Sze Lin Yoong
Australia urgently needs a quality improvement approach to emergency laparotomy
A prospective quality improvement register will reduce variations in outcomes and care following emergency laparotomy
Katherine J Broughton · Robert J Aitken
The future of health care in Australia
Our future health system must focus on overcoming health inequality
The Hon Catherine King
Challenging how tobacco is sold in Australia
Despite being addictive and deadly, tobacco is widely accessible in all communities
Becky Freeman
