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The potential benefits of a needle and syringe program in Australian prisons
Needle and syringe programs are evidence-based best practice interventions that reduce the harm associated with needle sharing
Alexander J Thompson · Michael H Levy
The costs and benefits of a prison needle and syringe program in Australia, 2025–30: a modelling study
Each dollar spent on a needle and syringe program in Australian prisons could save $2.60 in treatment costs
Farah Houdroge · Samantha Colledge‐Frisby · Nadine Kronfli · Rebecca J Winter · Joanne Carson · Mark Stoove · Nick Scott
Long COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave
Mulu Woldegiorgis · Rosemary J Korda · Paul V Effler
Tick tock: the travelling time bomb
A 62-year-old man from Connecticut, USA, presented to the emergency department with a six-day history of a febrile illness featuring headache, fatigue, malaise and anorexia
Matthew AK Martin · Maxwell E Olenski
Decentralised COVID‐19 molecular point‐of‐care testing: lessons from implementing a primary care‐based network in remote Australian communities
The First Nations COVID-19 molecular point-of-care (POC) testing program was part of the Australian pandemic response, ensuring equitable testing access and minimising diagnosis delays. To inform future pandemic preparedness, we reviewed the POC framework to provide key recommendations.
Belinda Hengel · Rebecca J Guy · Dawn Casey · Lorraine Anderson · Kirsty Smith · Kelly Andrewartha · Tanya D Applegate · Amit Saha · Philip Cunningham · Lucas DeToca · William D Rawlinson · Marianne Martinello · Annie Tangey · Prital Patel · Mark DS Shephard · Susan Matthews · Louise Causer
Management of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer) in Australia: consensus statement
The emergence of Buruli ulcer in previously non-endemic areas highlights the importance of increasing clinician and community awareness of this disease
Stephen Muhi · Victoria RV Cox · Matthew O'Brien · Jonathan T Priestley · Jodie Hill · Adrian Murrie · Anthony McDonald · Peter Callan · Grant A Jenkin · N Deborah Friedman · Kasha P Singh · Callum Maggs · Peter Kelley · Eugene Athan · Paul DR Johnson · Daniel P O'Brien
Putting international practice into action: the first case of lung transplantation for COVID‐19 in Victoria, Australia
A 61-year-old previously healthy man presented to hospital with acute type 1 respiratory failure after five days of coryzal symptoms and a positive COVID-19 rapid antigen test
Melanie Wong · Bradley Gardiner · Rob Stirling · Golsa Adabi · Brooke Riley · Jyotika D Prasad · Gregory I Snell
Human case of diphyllobothriasis in Australia
In 2024, a 30-year-old female resident of Melbourne, Australia, with no past medical history presented to the Royal Melbourne Hospital
Sadid F Khan · Anson V Koehler · Alistair Tinson · Maidhili Chinnappan · Harsha Sheorey · Robin B Gasser
Prolonged SARS‐CoV‐2 shedding in a lung transplant recipient: time for flexibility in infection prevention?
A 39-year-old woman underwent bilateral sequential lung transplantation for fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis in May 2022
Alyssa Pradhan · David Pham · Alexander Brennan · Jen Kok · Priya Garg
Japanese encephalitis transmission in Australia: challenges and future perspectives
Discussion of challenges and recommendations for future Japanese encephalitis scenarios in Australia, including surveillance systems, a national centre for disease control, improved data sharing and increased funding
Caroline K Dowsett · Francesca Frentiu · Gregor J Devine · Wenbiao Hu
Castleman disease following post‐coronavirus disease 2019 multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults
A 50-year-old man presented with one week of progressive dyspnoea, abdominal pain and malaise, together with one month of enlarging capillary haemangiomas
Katherine J Punshon · Anugrah Chrispal
Clinical phenotype of COVID‐19 vaccine‐associated myocarditis in Victoria, 2021–22: a cross‐sectional study
A threefold or greater increase in troponin level may be a clinically useful predictor of cardiac MRI abnormalities
Julia Smith · Silja Schrader · Hannah Morgan · Priya Shenton · Annette Alafaci · Nicholas Cox · Andrew J Taylor · James Hare · Bryn Jones · Nigel W Crawford · Jim P Buttery · Hazel J Clothier · Daryl R Cheng
Knowledge about COVID‐19 vaccines among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and attitudes to and behaviours regarding COVID‐19 and influenza vaccination: a survey
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are confident about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines
Shea Spierings · Victor M Oguoma · Anthony Shakeshaft · Jim Walker · Maree Toombs · James S Ward
Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae causing emphysematous pyelonephritis: a life‐threatening pathogen within Australian communities
Katherine GC Ong · John R Dyer · Dickon Hayne
Barriers, facilitators and next steps for sustaining and scaling virtual hospital services in Australia: a qualitative descriptive study
As virtual hospital services become more mainstream, gaps in evidence and practice must be addressed by future research and policy changes to maximise the benefits
Nicki Newton · Kavisha Shah · Miranda Shaw · Emma Charlston · Melissa T Baysari · Angus Ritchie · Chenyao Yu · Adam Johnston · Jagdev Singh · Meredith Makeham · Sarah Norris · Liliana Laranjo · Clara K Chow · Tim Shaw
The New South Wales Pharmacy Trial for herpes zoster: on the nose?
Christian P Pappas · Timothy R Holmes · Minas T Coroneo
Towards a cure for long COVID: the strengthening case for persistently replicating SARS‐CoV‐2 as a driver of post‐acute sequelae of COVID‐19
A look at the latest evidence on long COVID, focusing on viral persistence and the possibility of this as a main driver in long COVID symptoms
Michelle JL Scoullar · Gabriela Khoury · Suman S Majumdar · Emma Tippett · Brendan S Crabb
Primary peritonitis in a previously healthy prepubertal female patient
A nine-year-old female patient presented with a two-week history of vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, and a one-week history of dysuria with macroscopic haematuria
Danjel Miladinovic · Warren Hargreaves
Scabies: a clinical update
Updated epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of scabies, including emerging treatments
Laxmi Iyengar · Alvin H Chong · Andrew C Steer
Long COVID in Victoria
Almost five years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still major gaps in our knowledge as to the pathophysiology, treatment and prognosis of long COVID
David A Watters · Lance Emerson
An allied health model of care for long COVID rehabilitation
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is the most effective solution to improve quality of life for patients with long COVID
Joanne M Wrench · Leigh R Seidel Marks
Living with long COVID and its impact on family and society: a couple's view
Long COVID affects society in many ways, including the workforce and voluntary roles
Karlie M Flannigan · Gerard M Flannigan
Persistent symptoms after COVID‐19: an Australian stratified random health survey on long COVID
Improved community understanding of long COVID is required, and health systems need to develop clear pathways for treating patients, especially for those with persistent impairment
Alex Holmes · Lance Emerson · Louis B Irving · Emma Tippett · Jeffrey M Pullin · Julie Young · David A Watters · Adina Hamilton