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.