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Put on your legal glasses for a moment. Then take our quick quiz to see if you can spot how this medicinal cannabis website bends the rules.
The latest announcement doesn’t tighten existing prescribing or marketing rules for medicinal cannabis. It just reminds health professionals what the rules are.
Proposed reforms aim to increase public information about previously sanctioned health professionals and to better protect people who complain.
How does the regulator propose to make aesthetic medicine safer for patients, and what problems might lie beyond its reach?
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct. Here’s what that means.
A new proposal is reigniting an old debate about cosmetic surgery. Now it’s focused on what kind of training cosmetic surgeons should have before wielding their instruments.
We may need to reconsider how we sanction serious or ‘repeat offenders’. That may include permanently barring them from practice.
State and territory health ministers have decided to restrict the title ‘surgeon’ to specially trained doctors. It’s a significant change for consumers and doctors.
The latest plan is comprehensive, sober, realistic and the product of considerable consultation. But it’s missing a few key issues if we are to adequately protect consumers.
Positive patient reviews will soon be legal to use in medical advertising in Australia. How powerful is word-of-mouth promotion for health services?
To protect consumers to the best of its ability, AHPRA should have access to more data.
Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of the best current evidence in making decisions about patient care. The same approach should be taken when patients are harmed…
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