Ovarian cancer has a particularly poor survival rate. Only one in two women will live five years beyond their diagnosis.
- Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Women and Girls' Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
Sebuah pendekatan diagnosis baru bisa bantu mendeteksi lebih dini keberadaan kanker ovarium.
A new approach could allow even the most aggressive forms of ovarian cancer to be detected in their early stages.
Both are traumatic life events for the prospective parents and family. But the terms can be confused.
About one in six pregnant women in Australia are now diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Rates have more than doubled since the thresholds for diagnosis were changed.
The ‘egg timer’ blood test is marketed as an empowering way to give women insights to help them plan when to have children. Problem is, it can’t deliver what it promises.
Our study is the first to conclusively show the link between pregnancy loss and stroke risk.
Regular testing can mean potentially fatal diseases can be picked up and treated early.
Just under one in six Australian women have PCOS but some are being diagnosed when they don’t meet the criteria.
Previously, a person would be diagnosed with high blood pressure if their systolic reading was 140mmHg. But it’s recommended this threshold be lowered to 130mmHg, which will do more harm than good.
Fewer than half of Australians who have had a heart attack take blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent them having another one.
Screening for prostate cancer using the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test for men with no symptoms is controversial: experts are divided, and Australians are not routinely well-informed. Prostate cancer…
A panel convened by medical journal BMJ to investigate whether it was right to correct rather than retract two pieces featuring a mistake about side effects from statins has endorsed the journal’s decision…
After last week’s controversial Catalyst program on the ABC, some people may be wondering whether they should stop taking statins to lower their cholesterol. But before making such a decision, read this…
Decisions whether to publicly fund new drugs or not are often tough. Should the government fund a drug that has promising early results or wait until its effects and safety issues are better understood…
Kidneys are probably not a subject most of us think about too much – but right now they’re at the centre of a global medical controversy. In a paper published in the British Medical Journal today, we explain…
OVER-DIAGNOSIS EPIDEMIC - We kick off the second week of this series with Jenny Doust looking at some drivers of over-diagnosis in general practice. It’s easy to dismiss general practice as being about…
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