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This is my favourite drug, what's yours?

24th April 2019
If I could only have one drug in my pharmacopeia, what would it be? An antibiotic? A pain reliever? A happy pill? Keep…
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Golden pill
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Stand tall, GPs - you're on the frontline of the renewed war on measles

23rd April 2019
I was talking to a patient the other day. She was a new mother and had been grappling with all the new mum health anxiety…
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Doctor with vaccine
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Your ship is sinking. What's the one medical resource you'd save?

18th April 2019
Which one medical information resource would you take with you to the desert island? Put another way, what is your most…
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Castaway
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Election campaign lesson #1: don't mess with Medicare

18th April 2019
Labor’s 2016 'Mediscare' has entered political memory as a campaign tactic that almost changed the game in that election. …
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Medicare
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Today's tip: read the fine print on health apps – if you can

17th April 2019
A few weeks ago, ­Australian Doctor reported on a study that exposed how far and wide health data can spread when patients…
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Health app
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Is it time to fund non-invasive prenatal testing for all women?

17th April 2019
In less than a decade, prenatal screening has been transformed. The introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing, also…
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Pregnancy
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What do we really want from health funding?

16th April 2019
Even in this golden age of medical and surgical wizardry and developing gene science, all wrapped and ribboned in IT, we owe…
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Health funding