A Life Devoted to Asbestos Victims
Dr Greg Deleuil is the face you want to see if you have been exposed to asbestos. He knows the impact of asbestos at a very personal level. Read More...
Features
Silence of the Violence
Women continue being murdered at the hands of current or former partners. Kedy Kristel looks at the role of non-fatal strangulation as a marker to future violence. Read More...
The Bare Bones of Tissue Donation
While organ donation may take the headlines, there is a steady recognition and investment in WA’s bone and tissue bank, PlusLife. Read More...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Opioid dependence, addiction, withdrawal and pain
Pain is famously subjective. Opium products have been used for millennia to treat pain. While pharmaceutical opioids remain essential in treating acute pain, concerns have arisen around the safety and efficacy of opioids in treating chronic, non-cancer pain. Read More...
WA Research Comes Home to Roost
Big research projects marked out for WA is the first sign research funding may be, at last, starting to head West. Read More...
Communicable diseases – keeping ahead of the game
Improvements in standards of living and advances in public health and clinical medicine, have decreased rates of infectious diseases in the community. However, they remain an ever-present threat and we need to maintain existing disease controls and apply new innovative methods to keep ahead of the game. Read More...
Russian Far East? It’s for the Birds
Subiaco procedural GP Dr Lin Arias writes here of taking a slow boat up the Russian coast as ship’s doctor. Read More...
Autism Guidelines – why do we need them?
The guidelines are not about treatment. Instead, they map out the assessment and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder using a consensus definition, lacking until now. Read More...