Medicolegal: Residents’ Rights in Aged Care
With the Berrington group going into voluntary administration, Special Counsel David McMullen explores what safeguards residents have. Read More...
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Childhood asthma – what has obstetrics got to do with it?
There is emerging evidence that epigenetic paradigms, particularly DNA methylations affecting gene expression, influence the likelihood of children having asthma and other allergic diseases. Read More...
New approaches to metastatic lung cancer
Lung cancer is the fifth most common cancer in Australia and the leading cause of cancer deaths, accounting for 20% of the total. There has been limited treatments for metastatic lung cancer previously, with chemotherapy being the mainstay of treatment. Five-year survival for stage IV lung cancer was 1%. Read More...
Long-term management of pulmonary embolus
While initial management of Pulmonary Embolus (PE) focuses on short-term risk stratification and anticoagulation, long-term management decisions include relative benefits and harms of ongoing anticoagulation, being vigilant for complications and addressing comorbidities. Read More...
A Great Dame of Opera
Soprano Antoinette Halloran was in Perth in July playing the scheming widow Mrs Lovett in WA Opera’s sell-out season of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. The Melbourne-based singer is back in Perth next month to sing the role of Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth. Medical Forum put these questions to her. Read More...
When e-Cigs Cloud the Scene…
Nicholas Wood from Cancer Council WA says it’s safer to keeping the focus on proven methods for smoking cessation. Read More...
Glamping it up at Rotto
Doing it tough at the Discovery Rottnest Island Village at Pinky Beach Read More...
Beneath the drapes – September 2019
Who's making headlines in WA Health. Read More...