Australia"s Health At CrossroadsAustralia urgently needs a well thought out, substantial reform programme achieving better health outcomes for all, not more of the same which is the approach of the Howard Government, says an Editorial in this week"s edition of The Lancet. [click link for...
Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke Much Higher For Patients With Venous ThromboembolismPatients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) have a substantially increased long-term risk of subsequent arterial cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke. These are the conclusions of authors of an Article published in this week"s edition ...
Rotavirus Vaccine Very Effective At Stopping Gastroenteritis Episodes In ChildrenTwo doses of a rotavirus vaccine co-administered with childhood vaccines provides high protection against rotavirus gastroenteritis episodes of any severity in children, and also reduces the need for hospital treatment and medical attention related to ...
Doctors And Patients Poorly Informed About HerpesFamily doctors and patients with herpes are poorly informed about the viral infection, indicate the results of an online survey, published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.And there seem to be diverging opinions about how the i...
Larger Than Life: The Root Causes Of ObesityAngst ridden 30 something Bridget Jones starts each day on the scale, obsessively tracking her weight against social expectations. She vows to become svelte, only to confide her personal dieting failures to her diary the next morning. Author Helen Fieldi...