UWA Study: Babies with intestinal problems have unhealthy microbes
For some babies, having intestinal problems lead to altered gut microbiota, increasing their chances of infections, new study shows. Read More...
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Hollywood’s new treatment hub
Perth has a new centre for cancer treatment and a lot more. Dr Karl Gruber and Cathy O’Leary report. Read More...
Abdominal aortic calcification and cardiovascular disease
Arterial calcification is a stable marker of advanced vascular disease. High coronary artery calcification scores are recognised as an indicator of future cardiovascular risk and increasingly used to guide patient management and to prompt better adherence to frontline medications. Read More...
The gift of life – increasing the use of donated hearts
In 2019, around Australia there were 367 heart donors but only 112 hearts were transplanted. Improving the use of donated organs is an area of clear unmet need. Unlike brain-dead donors, some donors suffer a circulatory death (DCD), where the heart has ceased beating. Hearts from these donors have traditionally been considered too high risk to be transplanted and thought likely to yield poor recipient outcomes. Read More...
Updates in Acute Ischaemic Stroke Management
The hyperacute management of stroke generally refers to treatment in the first 24 hours of onset of symptoms and focuses on minimising brain injury. This includes time critical reperfusion therapies: intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) as well as endovascular clot retrieval (ECR) for stroke due to large vessel occlusion (LVO). Read More...
Diabetes and heart attack: what’s new to improve outcomes?
Heart disease is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes mellitus. Despite improvements in treatment options, diabetes remains associated with excess risk of heart disease. This is particularly important in people with diabetes with recent heart attack as the risk of recurrent heart attack, heart failure and death are increased substantially. Read More...
A novel therapy to treat familial heart disease
Cardiovascular disease is a global burden and the leading cause of death worldwide. In context, more than 18 million people die from cardiovascular disease each year while the COVID-19 pandemic
has resulted in 2.5 million deaths to date. Read More...
Lung cancer screening with Low Dose CT – ready, set…go?
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Australia, for both men and women, with new cases numbers rising each year. Lung cancer causes more deaths than breast, colorectal, and cervical cancers combined – cancers for which national population-based screening programs already exist. Read More...