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Health and climate change MJA–Lancet Countdown report: Australia gets another failing grade in 2020 but shows signs of progressAt the end of 2019 and into 2020, catastrophic fires in Australia consumed homes, lives, wildlife, and land. Just as the fires subsided, Australia, like the rest of the world, faced another emergency—the COVID-19 pandemic. It is instructive to reflect on lessons from the health disasters of the past year. Following publication of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA)–Lancet Australian Countdown was published in December, 2020. This annual report on health and climate change in Australia is in its third year and comprises the efforts of five Australian institutions, in collaboration with University College London, UK, facilitated by a partnership between The Lancet and the MJA.
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Feasibility and acceptability of the multi-component P3-MumBubVax antenatal intervention to promote maternal and childhood vaccination: A pilot studyThe P3-MumBubVax intervention is feasible and acceptable in the Australian public antenatal setting
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Safety of live attenuated herpes zoster vaccine in adults 70–79 years: A self-controlled case series analysis using primary care dataNo new safety concerns were identified for live attenuated herpes zoster vaccine in this study based on a novel, Australian primary care data source
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Acute Tryptophan Depletion Moja-De: A Method to Study Central Nervous Serotonin Function in Children and AdolescentsSerotonin (5-HT) is widely implicated as a key neurotransmitter relevant to a range of psychiatric disorders and psychological processes. The role of central nervous 5-HT function underlying these processes can be examined through serotonergic challenge methodologies.
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Identifying young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in linked administrative data: A comparison of methodsIn the ongoing debate on optimum methods for identification of Indigenous people within linked administrative data, few studies have examined the impacts of method on population counts and outcomes in family-based linkage studies of Aboriginal children.
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Factors associated with pneumococcal carriage and density in children and adults in Fiji, using four cross-sectional surveysThis study describes predictors of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage and density in Fiji
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SmartStartAllergy: a novel tool for monitoring food allergen introduction in infantsInfant feeding practices in Australia have changed over the past decade; a large majority of infants are now fed peanut before 12 months of age
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Nasal delivery of a commensal Pasteurellaceae species inhibits nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae colonisation and delays onset of otitis media in miceWe have demonstrated that a single dose of a closely related commensal can delay onset of NTHi otitis media in vivo
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Bacterial Reservoirs in the Middle Ear of Otitis-prone Children Are Associated With Repeat Ventilation Tube InsertionPresence of bacterial otopathogen in the middle ear during ventilation tube insertion was a predictor of children at-risk of repeat ventilation tube insertion
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Characterising nitric oxide-mediated metabolic benefits of low-dose ultraviolet radiation in the mouse: a focus on brown adipose tissueNon-burning (low-dose) UVR suppresses the BAT 'whitening', steatotic and pro-diabetic effects of consuming a high-fat diet through skin release of nitric oxide