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Myocarditis in Australian children following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection or COVID‐19 vaccination: a retrospective case series

Patrick Walker, Timothy C Lai, Silja Schrader, Nigel Crawford and Daryl R Cheng

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 482-483 Free

Psychotropic medication prescribing for children and adolescents by general practitioners during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Rae‐Anne Hardie, Gorkem Sezgin, Lisa G Pont, Judith Thomas, Mirela Prgomet, Precious McGuire, Christopher Pearce and Andrew Georgiou

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (1): 26-27 Open Access

Self‐harm and suicidal ideation in children and adolescents in contact with child protection services

Kirstie O'Hare, Oliver Watkeys, Felicity Harris, Kimberlie Dean, Vaughan J Carr and Melissa J Green

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (11): 526-527 Open Access

Comparison of performance outcomes after general practice training in remote and rural or regional locations in Australia

Emily Anderson, Matthew R McGrail, Aaron Hollins, Louise Young, Lawrie McArthur, Belinda O'Sullivan and Tiana Gurney

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 408-409 Open Access

Over‐the‐counter cough and cold medicines: reported poisonings of children before and after the 2012 and 2020 labelling changes in Australia

Abrar Arbaeen, Nial J Wheate, Jared A Brown and Rose Cairns

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 410-411 Open Access

The impact on poisonings of up‐scheduling of modified release paracetamol to Schedule 3 (pharmacist only medicine)

Rose Cairns, Firouzeh Noghrehchi and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 412-414 Open Access

Bloodstream infection rates in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people in Central Australia, 2014–2018

Alice Coe, Richard J Woodman, Rob Baird and Lloyd Einsiedel

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 415-417 Open Access

The South Australian Emergency Department Admission Blood Psychoactive Testing (EDABPT) program: first results

Sam Alfred, Peter Stockham, Emma Partridge, Alastair Ward, Hannah Green, Jake Mallon, Chris Kostakis, Andrew Camilleri and Daniel Haustead

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 376-377 Open Access

A rise in invasive and non‐invasive group A streptococcal disease case numbers in Melbourne in late 2022

Aleece MacPhail, Wen Jie Isaac Lee, Despina Kotsanas, Tony M Korman and Maryza Graham

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 378-379 Open Access

The Queensland IMplementation of PRecision Oncology in brEast cancer (Q‐IMPROvE) pilot study

Amy E McCart Reed, Georgina Hollway and Sunil Lakhani, The Q‐IMPROvE study group

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 374-375 Open Access

Direct‐acting antiviral treatments in Australia for children with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Jessica A Eldredge, Michael O Stormon, Julia E Clark, Scott Nightingale, Brendan McMullan, Brooke Andersen, Christina Travers and Winita Hardikar

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 229-230 Free

Different estimates of the prevalence of dementia in Australia, 2021

Annette J Dobson, Leon Flicker, Osvaldo P Almeida, Michael Waller and Kaarin Anstey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 320-321 Open Access

Neurosyphilis‐related hospital admissions, Australia, 2007–20

Ei T Aung, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Jason J Ong and Eric PF Chow

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 180-181 Open Access

The investigation of sudden unexpected deaths in infancy in Australia

Heather E Jeffery, Angela E Carberry, Adrienne Gordon and Susan Arbuckle

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 262-263 Open Access

Distress and career regret among Australian orthopaedic surgical trainees

Carrie Kollias, Chris Conyard, Melissa Frances Formosa, Richard Page and Ian Incoll

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 265-266 Free

Diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in adults: Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry data, 2000–2019

Amelia Lin, Keith Wong, Simone K Visser, Helen Jo, Yasmeen Al‐Hindawi, Katrin Kosbab‐Jackson, Molly Cocks, Anastasia Volovets, Paul Haber, Kirsten Hammond, Nicole Taylor, Veronica Yozghatlian, Edmund MT Lau, Nathaniel S Marshall, Tara Aquino‐Salomon and Sheila Sivam

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 138-139 Free

Non‐fatal opioid overdose after release from prison among men who injected drugs prior to their imprisonment: a prospective data linkage study

Michael Curtis, Paul Dietze, Rebecca J Winter, Kasun Rathnayake, Karen Smith and Mark Stoove

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (2): 94-95 Open Access

Invasive group A streptococcal disease in the Northern Territory and the impact of melioidosis antibiotic prophylaxis

Johanna M Birrell, Rowena Boyd, Bart J Currie, Nicholas M Anstey, Asanga Abeyaratne, Sandawana William Majoni and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (10): 544-545 Free

Primary headache drug treatment in emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand

Kevin Chu, Anne‐Maree Kelly, Frances Kinnear, Gerben Keijzers and Sinan Kamona

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 366-367 Open Access

Myocarditis after COVID‐19 mRNA vaccination in Australia

Suraj K Varma, Ari E Horton, Anna L Taylor, Michael R Ditchfield, Sarah A Hope and Srinidhi JV Rao

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 260-261 Open Access

Infant feeding patterns before and after changes to food allergy prevention guidelines in Australia

Jennifer Koplin, Victoria Soriano, Merryn Netting and Rachel Peters

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 210-211 Open Access

Re‐assessing reactions to influenza vaccination initially classified as vaccine allergies

Beau Z Carr, Kymble Spriggs, Samar Ojaimi, Elizabeth Leahy and Sara L Barnes

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): 155-156 Free

Effect of a financial incentive on responses by Australian general practitioners to a postal survey: a randomised controlled trial

Alison C Zucca, Mariko Carey, Rob W Sanson‐Fisher, Joel Rhee, Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair, Christopher Oldmeadow, Tiffany‐Jane Evans and Simon Chiu

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 585-586 Open Access

The seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2‐specific antibodies in children, Australia, November 2020 – March 2021

Archana Koirala, Heather F Gidding, Kaitlyn Vette and Kristine Macartney, the PAEDS Serosurvey Group

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 43-45 Open Access

Value of single troponin values in the emergency department for excluding acute myocardial infarction in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Jaimi H Greenslade, Sara Berndt, Laura Stephensen, Katrina Starmer, Greg Starmer, William Parsonage, Victor Lau, Tileah Drahm‐Butler, Tania Davis, Virginia Campbell, Richard Stone, Robert Bonnin, Sarah Ashover, Tanya Milburn, Elizabeth Mowatt, Karlie Proctor, Anthony Brazzale and Louise Ann Cullen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 48-49 Free