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What we know about the health risks of bushfire-affected drinking water

10th January 2020

Bushfires pose serious short- and long-term impacts to public drinking water quality. They can damage water supply…

11th November 2019

Surgeons are missing the mark around half the time when giving antibiotics, Australian researchers say. Overall, surgeons…

5th November 2019

Faecal microbiota transplantation cuts bloodstream infection rates by roughly one-quarter in patients with recurrent C…

5th August 2019

Researchers have called on GPs to move away from the great ‘bacteria versus virus’ divide when it comes to treating patients…

26th June 2019

Probiotics may prevent acute otitis media in some children, an Australian-led Cochrane review has concluded. The review of…

16th May 2019

Simply prescribing fewer antibiotics and finding new drugs could spell “disaster” in the battle against antibiotic…

21st February 2019

There is much interest in the role of probiotics in the human-bacterial interaction, inter-bacterial interaction and how…