Shock at draft national health plan’s climate change omission
The 10-year preventative health strategy consultation makes no mention of the issue at all, says the Climate and Health Alliance director Fiona Arm…
Jo Hartley
Jo is Editor-in-Chief of Australian Doctor Group.
GP charged in bikie drug-ring bust
Police allege the Brisbane doctor, who was granted bail, supplied drugs to gang members who sold them on.
Few coronvirus patients are asymptomatic: study
A systematic review reveals only 20% never develop symptoms: PLOS Medicine.
Tens of thousands of Chinese receive experimental vaccine
Country officials say 'no side effects' have been seen with the three vaccines that are still in development.
Top doctor sidelined over Vic’s hotel quarantine program
Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton should have been put in charge of the scheme but two bureaucrats were appointed instead, inquiry hears.…
All but one routine vax effective in premmies
Dutch study shows immunisation at the usual time leads to protection in preterm babies apart from for Haemophilus influenzae type b.
Pregnancy may delay MS onset
An Australian-led study suggests there's an association between pregnancy and the timing of the first presentation of MS.
It’s a beautiful tearjerker: Scrubs Choir sings ‘I’ll stand by you’
More than 400 staff at The Royal Melbourne Hospital have taken part in the choir's latest musical masterpiece.
Are kids really asymptomatic COVID-19 spreaders?
Italian study finds just 1% of asymptomatic children tested positive for the virus compared with 9% of adults.
Turmeric eases osteoarthritis pain, reports Aussie study
The small Tasmanian trial shows the supplement improves knee pain in patients who take it compared to those who don't.
