Women in Orthopaedics
Gender diversity within surgery is a moving target, says Dr Kate Stannage. Read More...
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GPs Searching for New Relevance
Medicine in the modern era is an illogical, inequitable and unsustainable system, suggests Dr John Terry Read More...
Hyperhidrosis in children
Sweating in greater amounts than required for thermoregulation, hyperhidrosis, may have significant emotional and social consequences for children. Read More...
Choosing the Musical Life
The last time Leo Hussain stepped foot on Australian soil he was a young Cambridge undergraduate singing in the choir of Kings College Cambridge. That was 20 years ago but it wasn’t his first visit. As a young boy chorister with the same choir he did a four-week tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1987. Read More...
Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in WA
Rheumatic heart disease remains a long term health burden in Western Australia yet is largely preventable, particularly amongst Indigenous Australians. Read More...
Childhood Type 2 Diabetes
TD2 diabetes occurs more often in (mainly overweight) children, and careful management is thwarted by adolescent behaviours but is needed to prevent long-term complications. Read More...
Take Sextortion Seriously
‘Technologically Facilitated Sexual Violence’ – aka sextortion or revenge porn – is on the rise and the regulators are falling behind, says Curtin University’s Dr Amy Warren. Read More...
Chickenpox: No Adults Allowed
Varicella zoster virus (VZV), part of the herpes family, occurs mainly as a primary infection in childhood (chickenpox) and may reactivate in late adulthood as Zoster (shingles). Just to make life interesting, varicella and zoster can appear at any age. Read More...