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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.
Deans back medical student call for certainty on...
Over 100 locally trained international students in New South Wales will miss out on internships in 2011, yet...FULL STORY.
Dr Sue Ieraci: Public expectations of doctors need a...
Dr Sue Ieraci considers the paradoxes faced by doctors in a risk-averse, failure-intolerant society.
Deans back medical student call for certainty on internships
With regard to the idea that private hospitals should take up the slack in intern training: the private setting does not provide the levels...
Jon Noonan: Medical students the victims in training debacle
Good on you Jon, someone needs to fight for the rights of students. When I was in 5th year there was a threat that not all of us would get...
Jon Noonan: Medical students the victims in training debacle
I have been following this topic closely, since I am one of those students to graduate next year. With over 200,000 in debt, its a scary...
Herpes drugs safe in early pregnancy
Treating herpes infection with antiviral drugs appears to be safe in early pregnancy, but experts are still cautious about whether...FULL STORY.
Health headlines
Students call for a national body to regulate internships, heart rate drug cuts mortality, flu spike looms, US judge blocks stem...FULL STORY.
Migraine linked to mortality risk
Sufferers of migraine with aura face higher cardiovascular and all-cause mortality risks, two new studies show.