respiratory
Lung cancer

Professor Ian Yang: exploring coexisting COPD and lung cancer

The devastating diagnosis of lung cancer in patients with COPD has led to some interesting observations such as the apparent higher sensitivity to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in patients with both diseases compared to lung cancer alone. Speaking at TSANZSRS 2019,...

The devastating diagnosis of lung cancer in patients with COPD has led to some interesting observations such as the apparent...

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Public Health

Patients hit by gap fees due to being “locked in” to private system

Private surgeons' fees and radiotherapy are the main culprits in excessive out-of-pocket costs for cancer patients who are unneccesarily 'locked in' to the private system, Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy has told a Senate Estimates hearing. In most cases out...

Private surgeons' fees and radiotherapy are the main culprits in excessive out-of-pocket costs for cancer patients who are unneccesarily 'locked...
Medicolegal

Specialist fee transparency website delayed until 2020

The federal government's initiative to force specialists’ to reveal their fees on a publicly-searchable website is unlikely to become a reality until 2020, a Senate committee has been told . The idea of fee transparency website to allow patients to avoid...

The federal government's initiative to force specialists’ to reveal their fees on a publicly-searchable website is unlikely to become a...
Hospitals

Five Australian hospitals make the global Top 100

Three Melbourne hospitals and one each from Sydney and Brisbane have made the Top 100 in the first international rankings of hospitals published by US magazine Newsweek. The list was compiled from 1000 hospitals worldwide based on “recommendations from medical professionals, patient...

Three Melbourne hospitals and one each from Sydney and Brisbane have made the Top 100 in the first international rankings...