In-brief: August 2022
People in Western Australia making health care headlines. Read More...
LATEST ARTICLES
Take a guided tour of autopsies
Albany GP Dr Meryl Broughton spent 10 years doing autopsies as an after-hours job. In her first book, she’s sharing the cases which lift the sheet on real autopsies – and her passion for solving a mystery. Read More...
WA makes its own luck
Can anyone remember the two years leading up to March this year, when people tuned into daily press conferences in Perth with baited breath to hear if we had even a single case of COVID? Read More...
Fine flavours from old vines
The Yukich family are Swan Valley pioneers and their purchase of Houghton Estate has returned the vineyard to Western Australian hands. Read More...
Rehab needs a leg-up
Rehabilitation services have been neglected during the pandemic and must return in force to create equity for patients, argues Dr Bruce Powell. Read More...
Australian psychedelic studies to forge on
Delegates at AMA (WA)’s MEDCON22 last week got a jumpstart on the ABC's Four Corners expose on psychedelic testing with a presentation by Justin James, CEO of Health Insurance Fund of Australia (HIF), espousing the need for continued exploration and broader access to these therapeutics. Read More...
New 23-minute RT-PCR test
Researchers at Columbia University have teamed up with private enterprise to successfully develop a low-cost, portable platform that gives RT-PCR results in 23 minutes, with a level of accuracy that matches laboratory-based tests. Read More...
High-strength cannabis linked to addiction and psychosis
New research from the UK has suggested that the dramatic increase in the number of people seeking treatment for cannabis addiction could be a result of the drug’s steadily increasing potency, as new strains are developed to meet international demand. Read More...