respiratory
Asthma

Age-dependent RSV asthma risk creates vaccine conundrum

The risk of asthma linked to infant RSV infection is much greater if a child acquires the infection later in infancy, NSW researchers have shown. Children who contract severe RSV disease after the age of six months are more than twice...

The risk of asthma linked to infant RSV infection is much greater if a child acquires the infection later in...

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Public Health

6 things physicians should do about the climate change health crisis

The health effects of climate change are no longer a theoretical concern and are now causing human morbidity and mortality through storms, flooding, heatwaves, droughts, bushfires and changing patterns of infectious diseases. Writing in the NEJM this week, Dr Caren...

The health effects of climate change are no longer a theoretical concern and are now causing human morbidity and mortality...
Medical politics

Specialists’ revenue hit by Medicare Freeze

Specialists’ revenue from a standard private outpatient consultation has fallen by almost $3 since the Medicare Freeze started in 2012, a new analysis shows. But specialists’ overall revenue from consultations has remained about the same because of increased use of...

Specialists’ revenue from a standard private outpatient consultation has fallen by almost $3 since the Medicare Freeze started in 2012,...
Medical politics

Why surgery remains an old boys’ club

Sexism is rife in surgical specialties, with more than half of women reporting having faced or witnessed discrimination in the workplace, according to an online poll of female surgeons. Orthopaedics was seen as the most sexist of all the surgical specialties...

Sexism is rife in surgical specialties, with more than half of women reporting having faced or witnessed discrimination in the...