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Diabetes medications can have real benefits but there are still some nagging unknowns about their effects.
Sacks was able to communicate the fascinating workings of the brain in ways that evoked understanding and compassion.
To avoid ineffective treatments, we need a new way to identify and reduce questionable care. A new Grattan Institute report shows how to do it.
In the past, owners were quick to put their pets down. Now, with many viewing pets as family members, are they waiting too long?
Much of the fear of cancer arises from a lack of control, so I’m at my happiest when a patient with a new diagnosis comes in bewildered and shaken and leaves my office feeling a modicum of control.
Three features of a medical school help predict where medical students will eventually work as doctors: selection, the curriculum, and the professionalism of the newly-qualified doctors.
After a top Scottish medic recently claimed that medicine was too highly rated among the professions, here’s the case for the status quo.
More than 20 Australian women doctors defied official discouragement and served as surgeons and medical officers in the first world war.
The NHS might be an election battleground but the system is a world standard, and should not be meddled with for political or economic ends.
Whatever your opinion of book prizes, they remain a useful tool for understanding what is popular in the literary world. The Costa Book of the Year, awarded this year to Helen Macdonald for her book H…
Have you ever been advised to take a medicine with food? How about taking a medicine with cola or avoiding grapefruit? Hundreds of medicines have food-related dosing instructions. With four out of five…
Indigenous Australian practices, honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we look at different aspects of First Australians’ traditional life and…
You don’t have to be a horror fan to be well acquainted with some of the 20th century’s classic slasher movie music. Even if you’ve never sat through Psycho, you could probably immediately recognise the…
New medical technologies and treatments over the past few decades have led to remarkable improvements in treating older patients. The annual death rate for an 80-year-old male in 2011 was just 5.6%, compared…
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded with one half to John O'Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a…
Medical tourism is often associated with an image of sun, sand and surgery; patients travelling mostly from rich countries in the global North to exotic destinations for medical treatments at a lower cost…
Hospitals with more highly educated nurses report significantly fewer deaths following common surgery, according to a recent…
People with psychotic illness show similar brain changes to immediate family members who present no signs of illness, new…
New research has shown that garlic supplements in the diets of fish can keep fanged parasites at bay. Parasites can endanger…
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