Silicosis: When Will We Ever Learn?
Silicosis is emerging as the decade’s most problematic occupational health threat. Two eminent physicians, E/Professor Odwyn Jones and C/Professor Bill Musk, explain why. Read More...
Guest Column
Guest Opinion: To Vape or Not to Vape?
Occupational health consultant Dr K C Wan poses the question which is troubling policy makers and doctors alike. Read More...
WA leads research education
WA’s Child and Adolescent Health Service Research Education Program is a unique and valuable resource for clinicians, says A/Prof Sue Skull. Read More...
Cracking open overdiagnosis
Treating symptomless conditions can be a slippery slope. Dr Joe Kosterich reports some of the discussion from a recent conference. Read More...
Editorial: Medicinal cannabis. A Smoking Gun?
The Health Minister Roger Cook’s medicinal cannabis announcement on the TV panel show Flashpoint took a few people by surprise, his fellow panellists for a start, including the AMA WA President Dr Andrew Miller and the Police Commissioner Chris Dawson. Just how surprised may be open to conjecture and a small dose of scepticism. Read More...
Reversing Type 2? It’s Happening
If a pill were released tomorrow bringing remission in 50% of people with Type 2 diabetes, there would be enormous interest. Doctors would start patients on it as the newest form of ‘best practice’. If this medication had, effectively, no side effects and promoted weight loss and reversed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), there would be a stampede. Read More...
Is empathy the best medicine?
Where does professional distance become professional compassion? UWA’s A/Prof Nahal Mavaddat explores the issue. Read More...
WA’s Grim Opioid Statistics
A multi-faceted approach is needed to rein in the rate of unintentional drug induced deaths, writes addiction medicine specialist, Dr Richard O’Reagan. Read More...