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Research letters

Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Victoria, 2006–18

Jane Oliver, Myra Hardy, Joshua Osowicki, Daniel Engelman, Andrew C Steer and Katherine Gibney

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 201-202 Free

Perspectives

Using after‐action reviews of outbreaks to enhance public health responses: lessons for COVID‐19

Craig B Dalton, Martyn D Kirk and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 4-9 Free

Christmas competition

The CRECHE study: testing the urban myth that chocolate Santa Clauses are re‐wrapped Easter Bunnies

Dirk Stengel, Alexander Hönning, Stephan Just, Sven Mutze, Axel Ekkernkamp, Tobias Ohmann, Hajo Haase, Patric Kröpil and Leonie Gölz

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 531-535 Free

Christmas competition

Garlic as a vampire deterrent: fact or fiction?

Evangeline Mantzioris and Philip Weinstein

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 541-543 Free

Editorial

Goodbye, 2021: a year of triumphs and failures

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 492-497 Free

Perspective

Policy considerations for mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation

Julie Leask, Holly Seale, Jane H Williams, Jessica Kaufman, Kerrie Wiley, Abela Mahimbo, Katrina K Clark, Margie H Danchin and Katie Attwell

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 499-503 Free

Letters

Screening and brief interventions for harmful alcohol use: where to now?

Jana Malinovská and Jan Brož

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 525-525

Letters

Screening and brief interventions for harmful alcohol use: where to now?

Chris B Holmwood

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 526-526

Research letters

Lifestyle risks for chronic disease among Australian adolescents: a cross‐sectional survey

Katrina E Champion, Cath Chapman, Lauren A Gardner, Matthew Sunderland, Nicola C Newton, Scarlett Smout, Louise K Thornton, Leanne Hides, Nyanda McBride, Steve J Allsop, Katherine Mills, Frances Kay‐Lambkin, Maree Teesson and Tim Slade, the Heath4Life team †

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (3): 156-157 Free

Perspectives

It is time for governments to support retailers in the transition to a smoke‐free society

Coral E Gartner, April Wright, Marita Hefler, Andrew Perusco and Janet Hoek

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 446-448

Editorial

Is it time to abandon clinical breast examination?

Belinda E Kiely and Annabel Goodwin

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 458-459

Letters

The absence of women involved in the criminal justice system from Australia’s national discussion on preventing family and domestic violence

Melissa Willoughby and Stuart A Kinner

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 487-487

Editorials

The implications of living with COVID‐19 for intensive care in Australia

Raymond Raper

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 511-512 Free

Research

Increasing ICU capacity to accommodate higher demand during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Edward Litton, Sue Huckson, Shaila Chavan, Tamara Bucci, Anthony Holley, Evan Everest, Sean Kelly, Steven McGloughlin, Johnny Millar, Nhi Nguyen, Mark Nicholls, Paule Secombe and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 513-517 Free

Editorials

Who cares about climate?

Hugh Montgomery and Fintan Hughes

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 410-411

Research

Barbiturate‐related hospitalisations, drug treatment episodes, and deaths in Australia, 2000‒2018

Shane Darke, Agata Chrzanowska, Gabrielle Campbell, Emma Zahra and Julia Lappin

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 194-198 Free

Letters

Screening for hydroxychloroquine retinopathy in Australia

Adrian T Fung, Vicky Lu and Heather G Mack

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 434-434 Free

Consensus statement summaries

Cancer Australia consensus statement on COVID‐19 and cancer care: embedding high value changes in practice

Vivienne Milch, Rhona Wang, Carolyn Der Vartanian, Melissa Austen, Debra Hector, Cleola Anderiesz and Dorothy Keefe

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 479-484 Free

Perspectives

The 2021 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb

Paul J Beggs, Ying Zhang, Alice McGushin, Stefan Trueck, Martina K Linnenluecke, Hilary Bambrick, Helen L Berry, Ollie Jay, Lucie Rychetnik, Ivan C Hanigan, Geoffrey G Morgan, Yuming Guo, Arunima Malik, Mark Stevenson, Donna Green, Fay H Johnston, Celia McMichael, Ian Hamilton and Anthony G Capon

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 390-392.e22 Free

Perspectives

Climate, extreme heat and human health: risks and lessons for Australia

Tarun S Weeramanthri, Simon Quilty and Sharon L Campbell

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 393-395

Letters

Non‐invasive prenatal testing: clinical utility and ethical concerns about recent advances

Alison McLean and Kathy Wu

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 384-384.e1

Perspectives

Breakthrough climate litigation positions courts to combat the health impacts of climate change

Katherine Owens

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 395-397

Letters

Non‐invasive prenatal testing: clinical utility and ethical concerns about recent advances

Joseph Thomas, James Harraway and David Kirchhoffer

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 384-384.e1

Editorials

Self‐collection for HPV screening: a game changer in the elimination of cervical cancer

Karen Canfell, Megan A Smith and Deborah J Bateson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 347-348 Free

Editorials

Towards risk‐stratified population breast cancer screening: more than mammographic density

John L Hopper and Tuong Linh Nguyen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 350-351