Ginny Barbour, Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia. Haematologist originally, Open Science advocate, editor. See @theMJA for MJA & InSight+ tweets
Sydney and Brisbane
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This @theMJA week's Editor's choice from @mariacinacio on Policy influential research covers new research on vaping, loneliness and its economic impact, and how social prescribing is not new but rather a long established Indigenous concept.
Read here >> mja.com.au/journal/2024/221/…
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The 2024 Australian evidence‐based guideline for unexplained infertility provides clinicians with evidence‐based recommendations for the optimal diagnostic workup for infertile couples:
ow.ly/gIc050TnOKz
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Authors of an article published today in @theMJA and other key journals have supported changes in the revised Osteoarthritis of the Knee #CCS.
Experts explain the stronger focus on clinical diagnosis and reducing unnecessary imaging.
ow.ly/nNr250T0KMj @MJA_Editor #OAKCCS
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Here is our recent piece on “Social prescribing” another stolen #INDIGENOUS concept? published in @MJA_Editor @fi_cornforth @RosemaryWyber @YardhuraWalani Prof.Ray Lovett @NACCHOAustralia #FirstNations @creatingopps @CroakeyNews @ANUPopHealth
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I'm heading to Darwin next week and am thrilled to be visiting @MenziesResearch where I'll be speaking with researchers & presenting Tues on "What makes a great paper for publication?" Register for in person or online stickytickets.com.au/eek9k/g… & come and say hello if you're there!
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.@CDC has issued its long awaited-update on the pandemic risk posed by the #H5N1 #birdflu virus circulating in dairy cows. It's up a bit from the last H5 risk assessment CDC conducted, but is still in the lower half of the moderate risk range. statnews.com/2024/08/09/bird…
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We are excited to welcome Professor Virginia Barbour, Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia, to the Darwin office for her Guest Presentation "What makes a great paper for publication?".
Happening this Tuesday 13 August at 12pm, please register via the link 👇
I'm heading to Darwin next week and am thrilled to be visiting @MenziesResearch where I'll be speaking with researchers & presenting Tues on "What makes a great paper for publication?" Register for in person or online stickytickets.com.au/eek9k/g… & come and say hello if you're there!
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Submissions to inform the Aboriginal and Social Justice Commissioner’s agenda over the next 5 years close on 16 September.
We shall shortly provide a submission and encourages other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders to do so.
More info: hubs.li/Q02Kn5Y40
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Thank you @MelissaSweetDr @LRussellWolpe for highlighting our @theMJA Insight+ paper in #TheHealthWrap - read about our @HealthLitLab research on CVD & COVID-19 here: insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/…
#TheHealthWrap includes contributions from @Olympics @Simone_Biles @HealthInfoNet @carissa_bon @alexarmentae @stephenjduckett @BiancaMinnie4 @TheLancet @WesElyMD @CalltoActivism @CheriJacobus @imarajones @JasonUkman @sunrisemvmt & many others
croakey.org/the-health-wrap-…
I'm heading to Darwin next week and am thrilled to be visiting @MenziesResearch where I'll be speaking with researchers & presenting Tues on "What makes a great paper for publication?" Register for in person or online stickytickets.com.au/eek9k/g… & come and say hello if you're there!
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The latest MJA issue is out now!
Available online at mja.com.au/journal/2024/221/…
or as an eJournal at mja.com.au/journal/2024/221/…
We're hiring! We have a vacancy for a Deputy Medical Editor to join @theMJA editorial team. If you're inspired by medical publishing, have a medical degree or or PhD take a look at our ad here seek.com.au/job/77807286
Important session #AMA24 on Strategies for decarbonising healthcare. Good to see Eugenie Kayak from @DocsEnvAus mention this 2022 paper published in @theMJA mja.com.au/journal/2022/216/…
Thanks to everyone who came along this session on #peerreview this am at #AMA24 - great engaged audience. Two resources I shared: @theMJA Reviewer Guidelines mja.com.au/journal/reviewing… and @Training_Goose peer review primer trickygoose.training/downloa… @ama_media
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Really looking forward to doing this! Come along Saturday am if you're at the #AMA24 National Conference
Really looking forward to doing this! Come along Saturday am if you're at the #AMA24 National Conference
We're continuing to highlight sessions at our AMA24 conference and we are thrilled to announce @theMJA's Editor-in-Chief Prof Ginny Barbour (@MJA_Editor) will host a breakfast session on peer review for the MJA and other medical journals.
Register now!
tcc.eventsair.com/ama24/?utm…
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Join Cardiothoracic Surgeon Professor Michael Wilson on this week's MJA Podcast as he discusses the latest in lung cancer screening and treatment:
🎧ow.ly/W01m50SLRPc
Flu on your mind this winter? A perspective in @theMJA by Megan O'Moore and colleagues discusses
National pharmacovigilance of seasonal influenza vaccines in Australia. Article here mja.com.au/journal/2024/221/… and related InSight+ news here: insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/…
Two papers recently @theMJA on #exercise at different stages of life
Preventing falls & fall‐related injuries in older people
mja.com.au/journal/2024/221/…
Economics of a national anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention program for amateur football players
mja.com.au/journal/2024/221/…
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New research provides health policymakers and football organisations information that could assist decision making regarding investing in primary ACL injury prevention.
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