Medical Journal of Australia

Oncology & Cancer

Cancer patients should be told more about their fertility options

Fertility preservation care for people with cancer is "often underimplemented" with barriers needing to be overcome, according to authors from the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Fertility Preservation Taskforce, writing ...

Medical research

Better reporting of harm needed in clinical trials

Clinical trials are critical to understanding the benefits of new treatments and medical therapies, but researchers say people who design and run clinical trials need to lift their game when it comes to recording and reporting ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Experts say access to late terminations in Queensland is vital

Despite advances in imaging and prenatal screening, not all abnormalities are detectable early in pregnancy, making safe late termination services essential for equitable reproductive health care, according to the authors ...

Medical economics

Aussie stroke survivors have fallen into a 'black hole'

Long-term survivors of stroke in Australia have "fallen into a black hole," left with lifelong disability with "inadequate" ongoing services and support, according to the authors of a Perspective published today by the Medical ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Point-of-care Strep A tests set to save lives in remote settings

Instant diagnosis and treatment of potentially life-threatening Strep A infections is now very close to reality across Australia's remote and regional areas thanks to molecular point-of-care testing (POCT) that slashes result ...

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