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The Bare Bones of Tissue Donation
While organ donation may take the headlines, there is a steady recognition and investment in WA’s bone and tissue bank, PlusLife. Read More...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Opioid dependence, addiction, withdrawal and pain
Pain is famously subjective. Opium products have been used for millennia to treat pain. While pharmaceutical opioids remain essential in treating acute pain, concerns have arisen around the safety and efficacy of opioids in treating chronic, non-cancer pain. Read More...
WA Research Comes Home to Roost
Big research projects marked out for WA is the first sign research funding may be, at last, starting to head West. Read More...
Riding to Give Hope to Kids
As surgeon Dr Sue Taylor prepares for the sometimes gruelling Ride for Youth, she reflects on the impact the event has on the vulnerable and for those who participate. Read More...
Training the GP of the future
When thinking about the future it is easy to bemoan the inevitable and the predictable while fearing the imaginable. Regardless, by 2035 our world is likely to be a very different place for patients and their doctors, and training must respond pre-emptively and accordingly. Read More...
More than Absence of Disease
Busselton GP Obstetrician Dr Sarah Moore has drawn on the collaborative knowledge of other healing systems to serve her patients. Read More...
Computer navigation in Total Knee Replacement
For 15 years, the aim of computer navigation has been to improve the precision and accuracy of component positioning in total knee replacement. Read More...