Seminar unpacks long COVID
GPs wanting practical information about how to manage patients with long COVID are being invited to sign up to an educational session next week. Read More...
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WA’s war on nangs
The WA Government will bring in the toughest regulations in the country to protect young people from the misuse of nitrous oxide gas, commonly known as nangs. Read More...
Teenage sunburn soars
Cancer experts want the State Government to spend $2.2 million a year to prevent skin cancer, as new data reveals the number of people treated at hospital EDs for severe sunburn has more than doubled since 2014. Read More...
A potential cure for HIV?
Gene editing has been used to eliminate all traces of HIV from infected immune cells in a laboratory, with the hope that it could one day be used to target the HIV DNA which acts as a reservoir for the virus in people with the condition. Read More...
British gender flip
One of the UK’s biggest health services says it will stop the routine prescribing of puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria. Read More...
Aussie teens’ porn problem
A leading Australian group which works to stop violence against women and children says evidence suggests that young people’s pornography exposure has big public health implications. Read More...
Optical sensor for diabetes
For decades, people with diabetes have relied on finger pricks to withdraw blood or adhesive microneedles to manage their glucose levels but thanks to an invention, that could all change. Read More...
Big Tobacco told to butt out
The Australian Council on Smoking and Health is urging politicians to heed the advice of public health experts across the country in response to the current tsunami of big tobacco funded pro-vaping campaigns. Read More...