Volume 222, Issue 8 | The Medical Journal of Australia

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Editor’s choice

What's past is prologue

Michael Skilton

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 375-376 Free

Perspective

The potential of maternal and child health service data in Australia: how lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic can accelerate data‐informed decision making

Ashleigh Shipton, Meredith O'Connor, Melissa Wake, Sharon Goldfeld, Helen Lees, Catina Adams, Kristina Edvardsson, Leesa Hooker, Jatender Mohal, Rhiannon M Pilkington and Fiona K Mensah

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 377-380 Open Access

Exploring the role of urine drug screening in opioid agonist therapy

Grace FitzGerald, Sione Crawford, Adrian J Dunlop, Jon Cook, Dean Membrey, Paul MacCartney and Thileepan Naren

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 381-383 Open Access

Cultural safety, the LGBTQI+ community and international medical graduate training

Cindy Towns, Charlene Rapsey and Rhea Liang

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 384-386 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Platypus envenomation

Irene M Moyer de Miguel, Jennifer C Jamieson, Lori Coulson and Ingrid Berling

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 387-389 Free

Ethics and law

Should self‐administered voluntary assisted dying be supervised? A Queensland case

Eliana Close, Katrine Del Villar and Ben P White

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): n/a-n/a Open Access

Editorial

The potential benefits of a needle and syringe program in Australian prisons

Alexander J Thompson and Michael H Levy

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 394-395 Free

Research

The costs and benefits of a prison needle and syringe program in Australia, 2025–30: a modelling study

Farah Houdroge, Samantha Colledge‐Frisby, Nadine Kronfli, Rebecca J Winter, Joanne Carson, Mark Stoove and Nick Scott

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 396-402 Open Access

Incidental findings during lung low‐dose computed tomography cancer screening in Australia and Canada, 2016–21: a prospective observational study

Asha Bonney, Diane M Pascoe, Mark W McCusker, Daniel Steinfort, Henry Marshall, Annette McWilliams, Fraser J Brims, Emily Stone, Paul Fogarty, Jeremy D Silver, Brad Milner, Elizabeth Silverstone, Eugene Hsu, Duy Nguyen, Christopher Rofe, Cameron White, XinXin Hu, John Mayo, Renelle Myers, Kwun M Fong, Renee Manser and Stephen Lam

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 403-411 Open Access

Social determinants of health and intensive care unit admission rates and outcomes for children, Australia, 2013–2020: analysis of national registry data

Katie M Moynihan, Vanessa Russ, Darren Clinch, Lahn Straney, Johnny Millar, Marino Festa, Natasha Nassar, Shreerupa Basu, Thavani Thavarajasingam, Debbie Long, Paul J Secombe and Anthony J Slater, for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group and Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 412-421 Open Access

Letter to the editor

Updating the diagnosis and management of iron deficiency in the era of routine ferritin testing of blood donors by Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

Jason Abbott, Kirsten I Black and Elizabeth Marles

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 422-422 Free