Today we are discussing heart valve disease as part of Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week.

My special guests are Dr James Roy and Associate Professor Kaleab Asrress, who are structural and interventional cardiologists from Sydney. This podcast is sponsored by Medtronic Australasia Pty Ltd.  

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins.

Today we are discussing the prevalence of Australians exposured to potentially cardiotoxic cancer medications. 

My special guests are Dr Benjamin Daniels and Dr Maria Aslam. 

Read more: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/44/listen-to-your-heart-how-cancer-medications-affect-cardiovascular-health/

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 16 mins.

Today we are discussing a supplement published in the Medical Journal of Australia about tracking the health and wellbeing of children and young people. The supplement is sponsored by Vic Health. 

My guest is Dr Kate Lycett, a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Health in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, who co-authored the supplement. 

Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/10/supplement

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins.

Today we are discussing socio-economic status and water fluoridation in Queensland. 

My special guest is University of Queensland biostatistician, Mr Christopher Sexton. 

Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2024/220/2/socio-economic-status-and-access-fluoridated-water-queensland-ecological-data
 

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 11 mins.

Today we are discussing Australia’s health system from the perspective of health economics, including the problems in the system, the challenges to reform, and how to improve affordability. 

My special guest is Professor Tony Scott, the Director of the Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School.

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 12 mins.

Today we are discussing the updated position statement on chronic cough in Australia. 

My guest is Associate Professor Julie Marchant, a paediatric respiratory physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital and a research fellow at the Centre for Children’s Health Research in Brisbane.

Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2024/220/1/cough-children-and-adults-diagnosis-assessment-and-management-cicada-summary

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.

The importance of medical record management – including legal obligations, codes of conduct covering patient records, and key things for doctors to remember. 

My special guests are David Maddocks, a senior lawyer and partner with Perry Maddocks Trollope, and Dr Owen Bradfield, the Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Indemnity Protection Society, which sponsored this podcast. 

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 25 minutes.

Today we are discussing iron deficiency in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with Dr Sam Heard, the medical director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. 

This podcast is sponsored by Viatris. 

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 15 minutes. 

Today we are discussing iron deficiency in the general Australian population, with Professor Arumugam Manoharan, a specialist physician in clinical haematology at St George Private Hospital in Sydney.

This podcast is sponsored by Viatris. 

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 23 mins.

How clinicians can help improve the care and treatment of culturally and linguistically diverse patients. 

My guest is Associate Professor Reema Harrison, a Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellow from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University. 

Read her article: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/34/clinicians-must-adapt-their-approach-to-culturally-or-linguistically-diverse-patients/ 

With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 18 mins.