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Volume 223 Issue 8

20 October 2025

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Editor’s choice

Access to mental health services continues to be under duress

Aajuli Shukla

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 383-383 Free

Perspective

Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Australia: how its current commercial model for diagnosis and treatment is encouraging misdiagnosis

Richard CJ Bradlow, Ferghal Armstrong and Edward Ogden

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 384-386 Open Access

The importance of universal child and family health services for equitable early development

Anna MH Price, Elodie O’Connor and Sharon R Goldfeld

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 387-390 Open Access

From words to action: time for Australia to take shared decision making implementation seriously

Tammy C Hoffmann, Kirsten J McCaffery, France Légaré, Mina Bakhit and Marguerite Tracy, For the Australian Shared Decision Making Research Network

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 391-396 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

A case of Lyme carditis in a returned traveller: a rare cause of reversible heart block in Australia

Eunice Chuah, Hari Sritharan, Zachariah Seidman, Avedis A Ekmejian and Karin Chia

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 397-399 Free

Medical history

The forgotten pandemic: Hong Kong influenza in Australia (1968–1970)

Matthew Brown, Alan W Hampson and John Gerrard

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 400-403 Open Access

Research

The first live term birth following uterus transplantation in Australia

Rebecca Deans, Brigitte Gerstl, Antonia W Shand, Sarah Lyons, Aaron Budden, Helen L Barrett, Grant Luxton, Mangalee Fernando, Kenneth Yong, Karen Keung, Kaushalya Arulpragasam, Henry Pleass, King Man Wan, Eva Kehag, Jana‐Emily Pittman, Mianna Lotz, Maria Fenn, Erin Nesbitt‐Hawes, Lily Byun, Katrina Tang, Mats Brannstrom and Jason Abbott

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 404-409 Open Access

Identifying modifiable causes of stress in clinicians and administrators working in New South Wales psychiatric emergency care centres, 2023–24: a qualitative study

Jacqueline P Huber, Alyssa Milton, Matthew Brewer, Kat Fry, Sean Evans, Jason Coulthard and Nicholas Glozier

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 410-417 Open Access

Effectiveness of COVID‐19 vaccine boosters for reducing COVID‐19 mortality among people aged 65 years or older, Australia, August 2023 – February 2024: a retrospective observational cohort study

Bette Liu, Anish Scaria, Sandrine Stepien and Kristine Macartney

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 418-422 Open Access

Research letter

Medication delivery and dispensing interval preferences of people who use antihypertensive medications in Australia: a survey study

Carissa Bonner, Michael A Fajardo, Rachael M Keast, Emily Atkins, Niamh Chapman, Kristie R Weir, Anthony Rodgers and Aletta E Schutte

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 423-425 Open Access

Guideline summary

Clinical practice guidelines for hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance for people at high risk in Australia: summary of recommendations

Jacob George, Nicole L Allard, Stuart K Roberts, Leon A Adams, Jane Davies, Behzad Hajarizadeh, Jennifer H MacLachlan, Suzanne E Mahady, Rosalie Altus, Catherine Brown, David C Fry, Belinda Greenwood‐Smith, Natali Smud, Patricia C Valery, Nafisa Yussf, Kate Broun, Denise Campbell, Karen Canfell, Chelsea Carle Harrison, Victoria Freeman, Paul Grogan, Catherine Holliday, Suzanne Hughes, Anna Kelly, Cathelijne Kemenade, Claire Latumahina, Amanda McAtamney, Megan Varlow, Joachim Worthington, Susan Yuill and Eleonora Feletto

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 426-436 Open Access

Letter to the editor

A future for the hospital‐in‐the‐home (HITH) deteriorating patient: shifting the paradigm

Davide R Tomassoni and Iftah Amith

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 437-437 Free

A future for the hospital‐in‐the‐home (HITH) deteriorating patient: shifting the paradigm

Aaron BO Wong and Brian H Le

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 438-438 Free

Concurrent use of hormonal long‐acting reversible contraception by women of reproductive age dispensed teratogenic medications, Australia, 2013–2021

Aaron E Boyce, Tony Caccetta, Jo‐Ann See and Rosemary L Nixon AM

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 439-439 Free

Concurrent use of hormonal long‐acting reversible contraception by women of reproductive age dispensed teratogenic medications, Australia, 2013–2021

Michelle KY Chen, Adrian Lim and Deshan F Sebaratnam

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 440-440 Free

Notification

NOTIFICATION: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (8): 441-441 Free