The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections was higher in Victorian postcodes with larger proportions of unemployed people, those without paid leave benefits, or those experiencing mortgage or rent stress, according to research ...
Mar 21, 2022
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In mid-2020, faced with a rising wave of COVID-19 infections—a previously unknown disease with neither vaccine nor effective treatment—an urgent, improvised collaboration between a Melbourne hospital, a primary health ...
Mar 21, 2022
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More effective therapies are needed for acute leukemia, particularly for people over 50 years of age at diagnosis, according to research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia.
Mar 14, 2022
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New recommendations for the management of hepatitis B in Australia have been released, with the authors aiming to improve awareness of chronic hepatitis B among clinicians and to increase detection of cases that currently ...
Mar 7, 2022
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With the lifting of border restrictions and quarantine regulations, Australians can anticipate the reintroduction of influenza, affording a unique opportunity to learn important lessons about the epidemiology of influenza ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Less than a quarter of inguinal hernia repairs done in Australia are same-day procedures despite the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RACS) setting a 70–80% target in 2017, according to research published today by ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Clinicians and policymakers should develop measures that further mitigate the risk of sport-related repetitive head injury after data released from the Australian Sports Brain Bank showed over half of donated brains had signs ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Aducanumab, a controversial Alzheimer's disease medication with "questionable efficacy," is under review by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, but authors of a Perspective published today by the Medical Journal of Australia ...
Feb 21, 2022
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Ongoing concerns expressed by many doctors about the introduction of a one-step approach to the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has led to a call for a review of the Australian diagnostic criteria from the ...
Feb 7, 2022
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As many as half a million Australians are suffering from constant tinnitus, with farmers, automotive workers, transport drivers, construction workers and other trades people at the greatest risk, a national survey as part ...
Feb 7, 2022
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