Emily Dunn

Emily Dunn

Emily Dunn is a Clinical Features Writer for Australian Doctor Group.

Ms Dunn has worked as a journalist for 15 years including seven as a news reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. She has a Master of Public Health and is currently studying medicine

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Medical Observer Opinion

Insulin's sweet spot sours as diabetes deaths increase

3rd October 2019
In 1922, an anxious father was waiting at Pyrmont Wharf in Sydney for a ship to come in. At home, his five-year-old…
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Insulin protest
Medical Observer Opinion

Big on promise, big on cost: Which patients warrant this cholesterol-busting wonder drug?

7th August 2019
Meet the new lipid-lowering agents: monoclonal antibodies that promise to shrink LDL to levels lower than even the strongest…
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Red blood cells
Medical Observer Opinion

Are we winning with MS? It's all about timing

24th July 2019
The famous French neurologist Jean-Michel Charcot was the first to lecture on the features of la sclérose en plaques in 1868…
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MRI scan
Medical Observer Opinion

Populist politics, anti-vaxxers and Russian trolls: Why measles is back

20th June 2019
It’s the most infectious vaccine-preventable disease and it’s sweeping the world. Measles transmission has quadrupled in a…
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Injection
Medical Observer Opinion

Hospital discharge woes: In summary, GPs aren't magicians or mind-readers

22nd May 2019
This is a time when patients are most at risk of iatrogenic illness: discharged from hospital, with changes to medications…
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Magician
Medical Observer Opinion

The race for an RSV vaccine is on

30th April 2019
It’s one of the most common seasonal viruses threatening children, and one for which we are low on ammunition. But…
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RSV
Smart Practice

Are we unnecessarily tying ourselves up in knots over CAM?

18th February 2019
There’s no doubt it’s divisive: at one end of the spectrum are GPs who label it all ‘bunk’; at the other are the GPs trying…
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Yoga