Blood samples help doctors know whether a treatment is effective or not – and this device can provide this information almost instantly.
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Proposals in NSW to force someone who spits at or bites a frontline worker to be tested for HIV and other blood-borne viruses are a real problem - for workers and the public.
We show that minute amounts of cancer DNA can be detected in blood more sensitively than ever before.
Expanding coronavirus testing is one of the most important tasks public health officials are tackling right now. But questions over accuracy of the two main types of tests have rightly caused concern.
The science is far from certain, but it appears at least a proportion of people who have had COVID-19 will be protected from another infection – at least initially.
After your body fights off an infection, antibodies remain in your blood. Two researchers explain how tests identify these antibodies and what the data can be used for.
In some communities, over a quarter of the children were misclassified as iron replete whereas they were iron deficient.
We have no reliable way of knowing which patients’ cancer will return after surgery, so often chemotherapy is given to mop up any remaining cancer cells that may have gone undetected.
Researchers have discovered some blood markers that indicate melanoma. Here’s what has to happen for the test to reach clinics.
From broken limbs to blood tests, hospital visits can cause unnecessary pain for children. An emergency care pediatrician offers seven easy strategies for parents to lessen this pain.
Feeling tired and out of energy? Talk to your GP about checking your iron level.
Antibiotics are wrongly being prescribed for infections where they won’t work and cutting this down could help combat resistance. But change isn’t as easy as just providing the means.
Almost half of all needle sticks in a hospital may be unnecessary, a recent study shows. There’s a way to be done with one, thus avoiding the pain of extra sticks.
By measuring a cancer cell’s DNA in the bloodstream, scientists can get a snapshot of the cancer itself, which is referred as a “liquid biopsy”.
Labor’s shadow health minister Catherine King, said that the government has “cut bulk-billing payments for pathology and diagnostic imaging to make patients pay more”. Is that right?
Pathology Australia promptly abandoned its Don’t Kill Bulk Bill campaign against cuts to bulk-billing incentives after doing a deal with the federal government.
Industry consolidation and technological advances have completely reshaped the pathology industry over recent decades. But the way governments pay for pathology services hasn’t kept up.
Parents in three Australian states are being given misleading advice about the dangers of lead to babies and small children – including failing to warn pregnant women about miscarriage risks.
Complex algorithms and personalised medicine promise a new way of diagnosing disease.
Not so long ago, getting an x-ray for acute back pain was the norm. And they are still used far more frequently than is necessary.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Neuroimmunology, UCL
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Public Health, William Paterson University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Melanoma, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Bioinformatics, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University
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Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Research fellow, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW