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How bacteria may be running a brewery in your patient’s gut

20th September 2019
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease may be due to alcohol after all, at least in some patients, if Chinese researchers are…
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Klebsiella pneumoniae
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Handwashing beats sanitiser for killing flu virus

20th September 2019
Doctors who use hand sanitiser between patients are more likely to spread flu than those who take the time to wash their…
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washing hands
Australian Doctor News

Chiro sold bottled water as Hendra 'vaccine' for horses

19th September 2019
A chiropractor has been ordered to stop treating humans and animals after he sold plain bottled water as an “energetic…
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horse
Medical Observer Opinion

There's nothing romantic about the return of scarlet fever

19th September 2019
Scarlet fever conjures an image of the saintly character Beth March in the 19th-century novel Little Women, the third of…
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Scarlet fever
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Want to become a better GP?

17th September 2019
A new master’s degree from the University of Sydney seeks to disrupt the continuing education market by providing GPs with…
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stethoscope question 2
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World at risk of pandemics, expert panel warns

18th September 2019
Billions of lives are at risk, as well as the global economy, from the mounting threat of disease pandemics, an…
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Aeroplane
Specialist Updates Gastroenterology

Subsidised hep C drugs should be initiated in hospital: hepatologists

17th September 2019
Hepatologists are calling for an exemption to PBS rules that would allow initiation of subsidised direct-acting antiviral…
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hospital consultation
Australian Doctor News

Multidrug-resistant typhoid infects Australian toddler

16th September 2019
An infant returning from Pakistan has been identified as Australia’s first case of extensively drug-resistant typhoid. The…
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Vaccination