Australia has an exciting new podcast called “Hold the Moment”. It’s co-hosted by respected journalist and Dementia Australia ambassador Hamish Macdonald, whose father has dementia, and dementia advocate Jim Rogers, who is living with younger onset Alzheimer’s disease, diagnosed in 2022. The podcast taps into real life stories and experiences of people living with dementia, along with great tips to help with living well after diagnosis.
Aboriginal children living in remote communities have the highest rate of skin sores, or impetigo, in the world. Almost one in two have skin sores at any one time.
A new study on the relationship between fluid viscosity and cellular function in the reproductive tract offers a new perspective on how fluid dynamics within the tract might influence fertility, particularly in cases where abnormal viscosity may be present.
With increasing recognition of bullying in academic settings, it is vital that institutions adhere to their own policies and protocols when supporting victims of bulling and abusive behaviour in medical academia.
New research shows Australian adolescents who have vaped are five times more likely to initiate smoking compared to their peers who have never vaped.
For the second time in three years, mpox has been declared a global health emergency — the highest level of alert given by the World Health Organization (WHO). Such a declaration demands continued monitoring, surveillance and response to ameliorate further transmission.
There’s a common thread linking our experience of pandemics over the past 700 years. From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities have put emergency measures such as isolation and quarantine in place to stop infectious diseases spreading.
Clinicians play a critical role in medical technology innovation; however, structured training in this discipline is lacking in Australia. We propose that formal education, using well validated methodologies, should be incorporated into clinical training at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
The role that interpreters play in health care is complex, difficult and largely unacknowledged. We couldn’t do our job without them.
