Podcasts
Improving outcomes for parents following miscarriage, with Dr Melanie Keep
Dr Melanie Keep
Vol 215, Issue 8: 18 October 2021. Dr Melanie Keep is a Senior Lecturer in Cyberpsychology and eHealth at the University of Sydney. She talks about her own experience of miscarriage and how things can be done to improve the resourcing of post-miscarriage care for both doctors and patients. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. This accompanies Dr Keep's Reflection available at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/8/silence-around-miscarriage-hurts-health-care-and-bereaved-parents ...
Potentially harmful compounds in e-liquids, with Associate Professor Alexander Larcombe
Associate Professor Alexander Larcombe
Vol 215, Issue 8: 11 October 2021. Associate Professor Alexander Larcombe is Program Head of Respiratory Health at Telethon Kids Institute in Perth. He discusses the potentially harmful chemical compounds he and his colleagues found in a range of e-liquids available for purchase in Australia. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. The research is free to access and can be found at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/potentially-toxic-compounds-found-vaping-liquids ... Guidance for GP...
Health care reform on the frontlines, with Professor Claire Jackson and Professor Diana O'Halloran
Professor Claire Jackson and Professor Diana O'Halloran
Vol 215, Issue 7: 4 October 2021. Professor Claire Jackson is Director of the MRI-UQ Centre for Health Reform and Integration. Professor Di O'Halloran is from the Department of General Practice at the Western Sydney University. They talk about how to reform the 40-year-old Australian health care system to produce better outcomes for both patients and health care providers. To accompany their MJA Perspective at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/7/reforming-our-health-care-system-time-rip...
Treating alcohol disorders in 2021, with Professor Paul Haber
Professor Paul Haber
Vol 215, Issue 7: 4 October 2021. Professor Paul Haber is Clinical Director of Drug Health Services, Sydney Local Health District, and professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Sydney’s Central Clinical School. He discusses the treatment of alcohol problems, to accompany an MJA Supplement and Editorial on the subject. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. Supplement available at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/7/new-australian-guidelines-treatment-alcohol-problems-...
Refugee and asylum seeker health in primary care, with Dr Rebecca Farley
Dr Rebecca Farley
Vol 215, Issue 7: 27 September 2021. Dr Rebecca Farley is a GP and Senior Medical Officer with Mater Refugee Health in Brisbane. She discusses how GPs can make their consulting room a safe and trusted place for refugees and asylum seekers. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. For more information, see the Australian Refugee Health Practice Guide at http://refugeehealthguide.org.au/ ... For interpreters, see TIS National at https://www.tisnational.gov.au/ ... 27 mins, 5 secs.
Sex disparities in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes, with Professor Roxana Mehran
Professor Roxana Mehran
Vol 215, Issue 6: 20 September 2021. Professor Roxana Mehran is Director of the Center for Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She discusses why women with acute coronary syndromes are underdiagnosed, suffer delays in treatment and are often sent home undertreated compared with their male counterparts. To accompany her coauthored editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/3...
Conversation with Dr Omar Khorshid, Federal President of the Australian Medical Association
Dr Omar Khorshid
Vol 215, Issue 5: 6 September 2021. Dr Omar Khorshid is the Federal President of the Australian Medical Association. He talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell, about COVID-19, the vaccine rollout, how the hospital system may cope with "living with" the virus, and the other important issues the AMA is advocating even while COVID dominates the media. 15mins, 50secs.
Cardiac complications of pre-Delta COVID-19, with Dr Kunwardeep Bhatia
Dr Kunwardeep Bhatia
Vol 215, Issue 5: 6 September 2021. Dr Kunwardeep Bhatia is a cardiology advanced trainee at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He and colleagues from 21 hospitals across four states investigated cardiac complications in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 through January 2021. Their research is available, open access, at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/6/incidence-cardiac-complications-patients-hospitalised-covid-19-australia-aus ... Dr Bhatia chats with MJA news and online editor...
Doherty Institute's award-winning SARS-CoV-2 research team
Dr Mike Catton, Dr Julian Druce, Dr Leon Caly
Vol 215, Issue 5: 30 August 2021. The winners of the MJA/MDA National Prize for Excellence in Medical Research has been awarded to the team at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity for their world-class study -- Isolation and rapid sharing of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) from the first patient diagnosed with COVID‐19 in Australia, which can be found at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/10/isolation-and-rapid-sharing-2019-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-first-pat...
Dr Karen Price, President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Dr Karen Price
Vol 215, Issue 5: 26 August 2021. Dr Karen Price is the President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She talks about COVID-19 and the special burden on GPs, new CPD requirements, self-reflection, and the future of general practice. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 21 mins, 53 secs.