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Jane McCredie: Bias in eye of beholder
The heat is on the pharmaceutical industry and doctors to be more open about their financial relationships …
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Big jump in mosquito-borne virus cases
Experts warn that Australia faces another outbreak of the potentially deadly Murray Valley encephalitis virus …
Sandra Leggat: Empowering health managers
While medicine is based on evidence, unskilled managers are allowed to run our complex health system …
Lex Doyle: Saving babies
Babies born alive at 23 weeks in Australia have a much better chance of survival than those born overseas, but preventing premature birth remains elusive …
Aniello Iannuzzi: Desperately seeking specialists
We have never had so many doctors, so why is it so hard to find a specialist?
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Confidence in research shattered
I never use it anyway - found early on many patients, especially young adults, vomited it back...READ.
Multiple drug brands confusing
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Multiple drug brands confusing
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Sandra Leggat: Empowering health managers
I strongly agree with Professor Leggat. Having been in hospital practice for over 45 years and...READ.
Jane McCredie: When religion and medicine collide
Should a religious organisation run health care facilities if its views impact on accepted community and...FULL STORY.
New study highlights medicine’s big earners
Men, radiologists and orthopaedic surgeons are the big winners while women and GPs are stuck at the bottom of...FULL STORY.
Karen Charlton: The costly skeleton in hospital closets...
Nutrition screening is recommended to identify malnutrition in older Australians but who is responsible for...FULL STORY.
Confidence in research shattered
I never use it anyway - found early on many patients, especially young adults, vomited it back too soon for it to be effective, so I have...
Multiple drug brands confusing
As a general physician, I ask patients to bring in ALL their medications when they come - only way to be "sure" what they're taking.
Over...
Multiple drug brands confusing
To clarify the allowable degree of variation between brands. The 20% relates to a 90% confidence interval of a bioequivalence parameter...
Confidence in research shattered
A reanalysis of evidence for an anti-influenza drug exposes a litany of inconsistencies and reliance on unpublished trials …
Big jump in mosquito-borne virus cases
Experts warn that Australia faces another outbreak of the potentially deadly Murray Valley encephalitis virus …
New guide on osteoporosis rescreening
A new study shows that baseline bone mineral density in older women is a good indicator of the optimal screening interval for...FULL STORY.
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Confidence in research shattered
A reanalysis of evidence for an anti-influenza drug exposes a litany of inconsistencies and reliance on unpublished trials …