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Medical education / Lessons from practice

Methaemoglobinaemia associated with the atypical use of sodium nitrite as a food additive

Caitlin O’Neill, Zeina Najjar, Andrew Ingleton, Alan Edwards, Andrew Dawson and Leena Gupta

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 256-257.e1

Research

Adding saliva testing to oropharyngeal and deep nasal swab testing increases PCR detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in primary care and children

Jane Oliver, Shidan Tosif, Lai‐yang Lee, Anna‐Maria Costa, Chelsea Bartel, Katherine Last, Vanessa Clifford, Andrew Daley, Nicole Allard, Catherine Orr, Ashley Nind, Karyn Alexander, Niamh Meagher, Michelle Sait, Susan A Ballard, Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, Deborah A Williamson, Nigel W Crawford and Katherine B Gibney

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 273-278 Free

Letters

A hospital‐wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID‐19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field

Diana Egerton-Warburton, Lisa Kuhn and Daphne Flynn

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 286-286.e1 Free

Research

The value of clinical breast examination in a breast cancer surveillance program for women with germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

Tamara Hettipathirana, Courtney Macdonald, Jing Xie, Kate Moodie, Chris Michael and Kelly‐Anne Phillips

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 460-464 Free

Perspectives

Updated Australian guidance for health care providers about “undetectable = untransmittable” for HIV

James H McMahon, Brent Allan, Daniel Grace and Nic Holas

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 201-202.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

The risk of ketogenic diets while breastfeeding: severe euglycaemic ketoacidosis

Nardeen S Habashy, Hwang Tan and Emily J Hibbert

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 208-209.e1

Editorials

Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health

Lukoye Atwoli, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, Raffaella Bosurgi, Fiona Godlee, Stephen Hancocks, Richard C Horton, Laurie Laybourn‐Langton, Carlos A Monteiro, Ian Norman, Kirsten Patrick, Nigel Praities, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, Eric J Rubin, Peush Sahni, Richard SW Smith, Nicholas J Talley, Sue Turale and Damián Vázquez

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 210-212 Free

Editorials

Excessive PSA testing in general practice

Justin J Coleman

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 215-216

Research

Modelling direct and herd protection effects of vaccination against the SARS‐CoV‐2 Delta variant in Australia

Emma S McBryde, Michael T Meehan, Jamie M Caldwell, Adeshina I Adekunle, Samson T Ogunlade, MD Abdul Kuddus, Romain Ragonnet, Pavithra Jayasundara, James M Trauer and Robert C Cope

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 427-432 Free

Letters

Recreational nitrous oxide misuse is resulting in serious neurological impairment and persistent disability among users

Simon Mosalski, Anne Tanner and Christine T Shiner

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 237-237.e1

Research letter

Public support for phasing out the sale of cigarettes in Australia

Emily Brennan, Sarah Durkin, Michelle M Scollo, Maurice Swanson and Melanie Wakefield

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 471-472 Free

Research

Screening outcomes by risk factor and age: evidence from BreastScreen WA for discussions of risk‐stratified population screening

Naomi Noguchi, Michael L Marinovich, Elizabeth J Wylie, Helen G Lund and Nehmat Houssami

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 359-365 Free

Perspectives

Effectiveness of COVID‐19 vaccines: findings from real world studies

David A Henry, Mark A Jones, Paulina Stehlik and Paul P Glasziou

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 149-151.e1 Free

Perspectives

Renewable energy use in Australian public hospitals

Hayden Burch, Matthew H Anstey and Forbes McGain

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 160-163.e1

Research letters

Background rates of hospital transfer and death in Australian aged care facilities: estimates to assist interpretation of rates after COVID‐19 vaccination

Hazel J Clothier, Yonatan M Mesfin, Steven Strange and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 180-181 Free

Editorials

COVID‐19 in children: time for a new strategy

Mary‐Louise McLaws

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 212-213 Free

Research

The effects on mortality and the associated financial costs of wood heater pollution in a regional Australian city

Dorothy L Robinson, Joshua A Horsley, Fay H. Johnston and Geoffrey G Morgan

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 269-272 Free

Letters

Superspreaders, asymptomatics and COVID‐19 elimination

Camilla Mattiuzzi and Giuseppe Lippi

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 140-140.e1 Free

Letters

Superspreaders, asymptomatics and COVID‐19 elimination

David Kault

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 140-140.e1 Free

Letters

Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a snapshot

Kate Furness, Donna Markham, Tamica Sturgess and Margaret O’Connor

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 142-142.e1

Perspectives

Investigating the health impacts of the Ranger uranium mine on Aboriginal people

Rosalie Schultz

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 157-159.e1 Free

Perspectives

Are COVID‐19‐safe Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics really possible?

Craig B Dalton and Joanne Taylor

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 54-55.e1 Free

Perspectives

Australia needs a prioritised national research strategy for clinical trials in a pandemic: lessons learned from COVID‐19

Asha C Bowen, Steven YC Tong and Joshua S Davis

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 56-58.e1 Free

Editorial

Non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease: raising awareness of a looming public health problem

Lucy Gracen and Elizabeth E Powell

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 75-76

Letters

Time to address the neglected burden of group A Streptococcus

Jeffrey W Cannon, Julie Bennett, Michael G Baker and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 94-94.e1