Medicare’s mediocre milestone?
Medicare turned 40 this week, and like many Australians the same age, the system is showing signs of strain. Read More...
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Deaf breakthrough
A revolutionary new gene therapy has restored the hearing in children impacted by hereditary deafness, according to new research to emerge from China. Read More...
Lowering the levy
While many medical professionals will be welcoming the new changes to the Stage 3 tax cuts announced by the Prime Minister today at the year’s first meeting of the National Press Club, the proposed cost of living measures also included lowering the current threshold for the Medicare levy. Read More...
New paediatric sepsis criteria
The Phoenix sepsis criteria has been released as an important new tool to help clinicians identify children with life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by infection. Read More...
The full cost of plastics
Despite tap water laced with fluoride being the traditional focus of the tin-hat brigade, harmful chemicals leaching from plastic containers such as water bottles have been linked to a range of endocrine diseases – with a significant price tag for the healthcare system. Read More...
Poo pills set for trials
Curtin University’s new poo pills may be coming to a microbiome near you, thanks to a groundbreaking partnership with Australian Red Cross Lifeblood to develop a faecal transplant capsule. Read More...
More money for rural GPs
The Federal Government has announced payments of up to $21,000 as incentives for GPs and rural generalists to work outside cities. Read More...
Saturn Pathology Podcast: Childhood abdominal pain with Dr Marcelo Leal
Medical Forum journalist Eric Martin was joined in the studio by Endoscopist, Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist Dr Marcelo Leal – or Dr Marshmallow to his patients – to discuss the management of impaction and other pressing problems when a child presents to their GP with abdominal pain. Read More...