Vol 215, Issue 11: 6 December 2021. Professor Alta Schutte is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at UNSW Sydney, and a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health. Professor Markus Schlaich is the Dobney Chair of Clinical Research at the University of Western Australia. They discuss hypertension control rates in Australia and why they need urgent improvement, and how we can do that. This podcast accompanies their MJA Perspective, published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 

Vol 215, Issue 11: 29 November 2021. Adjunct Associate Professor James Branley heads the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Nepean Hospital. Associate Professor Lucy Morgan is a respiratory physician treating COVID-19 patients at Nepean and Concord Hospitals. They discuss how to save lives in the first few days of COVID-19 symptoms. To accompany the full webinar, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQj6SVEsa6M&t=1781s ...  CDNA National guidelines for public health units treating COVID-19 -- https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cdna-song-novel-coronavirus.htm ... National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce Living Guidelines -- https://covid19evidence.net.au/ ... Lung Foundation of Australia resources for patients and doctors -- https://lungfoundation.com.au/lung-health/protecting-your-lungs/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/resources/  

 Vol 215, Issue 11: 22 November 2021. Associate Professor Sheena Sullivan is Head of Epidemiology at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, at the Peter Doherty Institute. She talks about the impact of opening the international borders on influenza cases and severity this coming summer. To accompany her editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/1/preparing-out-season-influenza-epidemics-when-international-travel-resumes, and research by Marsh et al, at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/1/drivers-summer-influenza-epidemic-new-south-wales-2018-19 ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 10: 8 November 2021. Professor Patrick McGorry AO is the Executive Director of Orygen and a founding director of headspace. He talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about the realities of youth mental health in Australia and what urgent action needs to be taken. To accompany his editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/2/reality-mental-health-care-young-people-and-urgent-need-solutions and research by Iorfino et al at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/2/social-and-occupational-outcomes-young-people-who-attend-early-intervention 

Vol 215, Issue 9: 1 November 2021. Professor Shane Darke is from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW Sydney. He discusses trends in barbiturate use over the past two decades. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. WARNING: This podcast contains discussions of self-harm and suicide. If this raises issues for you, please reach out for help -- DRS4DRS: 1300 374 377; Lifeline 13 11 14; beyondblue: 1300 22 4636; Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467. Professor Darke's research can be found at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/2/barbiturate-related-hospitalisations-drug-treatment-episodes-and-deaths ...  

Vol 215, Issue 9: 25 October 2021. Associate Professor Asha Bowen is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Perth Children's Hospital; Dr Brendan McMullan is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Sydney Children's Hospital; and Dr David Fraile-Navarro is Research Fellow at Cochrane Australia. They discuss new living guidelines for the clinical care of children and teenagers with COVID-19. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. The MJA summary is at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/5/clinical-care-children-and-adolescents-covid-19-recommendations-national-covid ... the full guidelines are at https://covid19evidence.net.au/ ...

Vol 215, Issue 9: 25 October 2021. Professor Hugh Montgomery is an intensive care specialist and Director of the Centre for Human Health and Performance at University College London. A long-time climate change advocate, Professor Montgomery talks about the prospects for COP26 and what individual doctors and health care systems can do to mitigate the damage done. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. To accompany the MJA-Lancet Countdown report at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/9/2021-report-mja-lancet-countdown-health-and-climate-change-australia

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 ... see also PinkElephants Support Network at https://www.pinkelephants.org.au/ ... SANDS at https://www.sands.org.au/ ... and an article by Dr Jade Bilardi at https://theconversation.com/the-dos-and-donts-of-supporting-women-after-a-miscarriage-98163

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 GPs on the new prescribing legislation for e-cigarettes can be found at https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/supporting-smoking-cessation

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-band-aid ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

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-overview-recommendations ... Editorial available at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/7/treatment-alcohol-problems-current-status-and-future-directions ... Full guidelines available at https://alcoholtreatmentguidelines.com.au/

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/ 

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/sex-disparities-continue-characterise-management-non-st-elevation-acute-coronary ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

 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. 

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, Cate Swannell.

 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-patient ... Dr Mike Catton, Dr Julian Druce and Dr Leon Caly talk with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about the research and impact it's had around the world. 

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.

Vol 215, Issue 4: 16 August 2021. Dr Laila Ibrahim is a paediatrician and researcher at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). Dr Nigel Crawford is Group Leader of Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination in the Community at MCRI. They discuss COVID-19 in children, to accompany their coauthored research at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/5/characteristics-sars-cov-2-positive-children-who-presented-australian-hospitals ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 4: 9 August 2021. Dr Dorothy Robinson is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales. She talks about pollution caused by wood heaters and the associated excess deaths and costs, to accompany her coauthored research at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/6/effects-mortality-and-associated-financial-costs-wood-heater-pollution-regional ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 3: 2 August 2021. Dr Adrian Sartoretto is a gastroenterologist and bariatric endoscopist with the BMI Clinic in Sydney. He talks about bariatric endoscopies and where they fit in the range of therapies for obesity. This podcast accompanies his coathored narrative review published by the MJA at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/4/endoscopic-bariatric-therapies-obesity-review ... with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 3: 26 July 2021. Professor Julie Leask is a social scientist and professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney. She is affiliated with the School of Public Health and Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and is visiting professorial fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. She talks about public health messaging and how people make decisions about vaccines. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 3: 26 July 2021. Dr Jessica Orchard is a Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney. She talks about sudden cardiac death in athletes -- how we screen for it, prepare for it, treat it and, hopefully, prevent it. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 2: 19 July 2021. Ms Heidi Welberry is from the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty is Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing. They discuss the association between changing GP and an increase in prescribing of antipsychotics for people with dementia entering a residential aged care facility. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 

Vol 215, Issue 2: 12 July 2021. Guilherme Franco is a biostatistician, and Dr Rae-Anne Hardie is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University's Australian Institute of Health Innovation. They discuss their research into prostate-specific antigen testing of asymptomatic men in Australia. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.   

Vol 215, Issue 1: 5 July 2021. Professor Jennifer May is Director of the Department of Rural Health at the University of Newcastle. Professor Anthony Scott is a health economist at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. They discuss the many layers and stakeholders involved in solving the problems of Australia's maldistributed rural medical workforce. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 215, Issue 1: 28 June 2021. Associate Professor Julia Brotherton is Medical Director of the VCS Foundation. Claire Zammit is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne. They talk about self-collection cervical screening and how to improve uptake by both practitioners and patients. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 11: 21 June 2021. Professor Susan Sawyer is Director of the Centre for Adolescent Health at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Dr Monika Raniti is a Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Adolescent Health at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Dr Ruth Aston is a Lecturer at the Centre for Program Evaluation at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. They discuss the Health Promoting Schools program. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 11: 21 June 2021. Dr Pallavi Prathivadi is a GP and PhD candidate at Monash University. Dr Liz Sturgiss is a GP and Senior Research Fellow, also at Monash University. They talk about the need to encourage more GPs to become opioid agonist prescribers. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 11: 14 June 2021. Professor Ben Cowie is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis. He talks about why he and his colleagues at the Doherty Institute believe universal screening for hepatitis B should be introduced for all Australian adults. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 10: 3 June 2021. Laureate Professor Nick Talley AC is Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia. He says Australia's vaccine rollout is a race, and we must prepare for a major outbreak. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 10: 31 May 2021. Associate Professor Deborah Yates, from the UNSW Sydney, is a respiratory physician and senior staff specialist at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney. She discusses the resurgence of dust-related pneumoconioses, and the release of new recommendations for early intervention and management. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell

Vol 214, Issue 10: 7 June 2021. Dr Eliana Close is a lawyer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at the Queensland University of Technology. She talks about the ethical and legal need for clear triage protocols to support clinicians when making difficult resource allocation decisions during pandemics and disasters. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 10: 7 June 2021. Dr Simon Judkins is an emergency physician and the Immediate Past President of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. He discusses the worsening crises of access blocking and overcrowding in Australia's emergency departments. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 9: 17 May 2021. Professor Garry Jennings is Chief Medical Advisor to the National Heart Foundation of Australia. He talks about coronary artery calcium scoring, and a new position statement providing guidance to clinicians about its use. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 9: 10 May 2021. Dr Caroline de Moel-Mandel is a GP and lecturer at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She discusses the changing trends in GP ownership models and how that might effect the quality of patient care. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 8: 3 May 2021. Dr Sandro Demaio is CEO of VicHealth. He discusses pathways to a stronger, more equitable health care system for all Australians by 2030, to accompany VicHealth's MJA Supplement and his own MJA editorial. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 8: 26 April 2021. Melissa Reader is the CEO of the Violet Initiative. Professor Ken Hillman is Professor of Intensive Care at the University of NSW, and is on the Clinical Committee of the Violet Initiative. They talk about the last stage of life and eliminating "regretful outcomes". With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 7: 19 April 2021. Dr Yumiko Kadota resigned as an unaccredited registrar after months of gruelling hours and exploitative work conditions. She talks about regaining the balance in her life and what changes she sees in the way trainees and registrars are treated. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 7: 12 April 2021. Dr Elly Redwood is a Basic Physician Trainee at Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Services. Professor David Brieger is an interventional cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at Concord Repatriation General Hospital. They talk about the importance of ambulance transport to hospital in the event of ST-elevated myocardial infarction. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 214, Issue 6: 5 April 2021. Dr Henry Woo is Director of Uro-Oncology at the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse. Dr Amy Teh is a radiation oncologist at Icon Cancer Centre. They discuss the merits and down sides of prostate cancer treatments and why men choose the treatments they do. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.