We need a new strategy to reverse falling vaccination rates in Australia
Child vaccination is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. It accounts for 40% of the global reduction in infant deaths since 1974 and has…
Tag: Public health
Reaping what RFK Jr helped to sow? Measles is back in the US
There is irony of a dark kind in the fact that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s appointment as US health secretary comes at a time when…
The mildest since COVID-19? Top flu expert’s predictions for the 2025 season
Falling GP flu vaccinations and a streak of early seasons show the importance of fast and widespread immunisation when 2025 stocks arrive, says a top…
So an ‘anti-vax conspiracy theorist’ is now US Health Secretary – what happens next?
Branded an anti-vax conspiracy theorist and science denialist by at least one leading US doctor, Robert F Kennedy Jr has finally been confirmed as the…
What happens when a patient brings you a 40cm worm in a jar?
ED doctors faced a curly one when a Melbourne woman retrieved 40cm of worm from her stool, stored it in a jar and presented it…
GLP-1 RAs linked to eye complications in JAMA case series
A case series has rekindled concerns about potential eye-related complications associated with semaglutide and tirzepatide. Published in JAMA Ophthalmology, it documents instances of serious ophthalmic…
Drink your coffee, but only before the clock strikes 12!
Given coffee’s long history, its cross-cultural prevalence and its role in keeping doctors awake on the graveyard shifts, its health effects have been subject to…
Guideline changes extend HPV DNA self-collection option to test of cure
Patients successfully treated for high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions can now be given the option of HPV self-collection under revised test-of-cure advice. Under changes to the…
Do NSW psychiatrists deserve a 25% pay rise? Here’s my take as an emergency doctor
Watching from afar, the new US regime’s changes to the management of healthcare, superimposed on an already dysfunctional system, elicit a sense of foreboding. The…
Revised calculator could cut CKD overdiagnosis, study finds
Using an updated chronic kidney disease calculator could reduce unnecessary diagnoses and nephrology referrals, researchers have argued in The Medical Journal Australia. The researchers compared…
