Flu shot reduces risk of cardiovascular events
Getting the seasonal influenza vaccine can reduce the risk of serious cardiovascular events like heart attacks and stroke, according to the latest research from Canada. Read More...
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Cannabis poisoning in pets
With growing pressure from medical groups to increase access to medicinal marijuana in Australia, research from North America, where recreational use has been legalised in some states for a decade, shows an unexpected fallout - incidents of cannabis induced toxicosis in pets are on the rise. Read More...
Australian led global standards for achondroplasia
The first global standards to help diagnose and manage achondroplasia – the most common type of dwarfism – have been created following a large international research effort led by Australia’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Read More...
Genomics: the future of reproductive medicine
The Human Genome Project (completed 2003) has given us the ability to read the complete genetic blueprint for a human being. Genomic medicine has rapidly advanced and been applied to many aspects of care including reproductive medicine. Read More...
Lifestyle and fertility
One in six couples suffer infertility, defined as the inability to conceive a pregnancy after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse. Infertility is attributed to male and female factors including ovulatory disorders, ageing, endometriosis, fallopian tube damage, uterine fibroids, autoimmune disorders plus lifestyle and environmental factors including geographical challenges such as fly-in-fly-out working. Read More...
Celebrate progress and aim for more
Despite enormous progress in the last half century, medicine tends to be a glass half empty type of profession. We focus on what is wrong and shrug off what is good. This is not to say that all is perfect or that we cannot aim to do better, but this is not mutually exclusive with pausing to acknowledge what has been achieved. Read More...
Handling weighty issues
If you’re trying to help someone who is obese, it seems logical to focus their efforts on losing weight. But, as Cathy O’Leary reports, perhaps that’s not always the best approach. Read More...
Supporting science to find solutions
Eric Martin explores how WA’s clinical trials are run and what impact the COVID pandemic has had on drug and treatment development. Read More...