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…
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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…
Tiny electronic devices implanted into living tissue can dissolve harmlessly when they’re no longer needed. A team from the…
When most of us think about the medical approach that dominates in Western countries, we tend to view it as scientific and therefore as neutral, not influenced by social or cultural processes. Yet research…
Just before I finished high school, my local general practitioner suggested I consider medicine. But the thought of blood made me feel squeamish, so I went to university to do maths and physics, and to…
It takes a lot of bravery for governments to stand up to big business. But the Gillard government has shown a lot of guts during its tenure. It stood up to Big Tobacco in the battle over plain packaging…
Almost two hundred medical students from diverse countries have just finished their medical education as full-fee-paying students. They’re now looking for the one year of employment (internship) they need…
Amid Australia’s ongoing doctor shortage, the health system risks losing dozens of Australian-trained, foreign-born doctors because of a shortage of intern places. The Australian Medical Students Association…
A couple of weeks back I awoke with a swollen and painful knee. I’ve had problem knees since high school and figured that this was just another chapter in the saga. Some days later I was fed up – my knee…
New research has revealed no correlation between religious observance and AIDS in Africa. Socioligist Jenny Trinitapoli found…
New software combines ancient Chinese practices and modern medicine to measure health by analysing images of the tongue…
Consuming probiotics (found in foods such as yogurt) is associated with a lower risk of antibiotic-related diarrhoea, according…
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Professor and Director Academic Excellence, Macquarie University
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Lecturer Pharmacy Practice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Chief, Epithelial Therapeutics Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Professor of Law, Villanova University
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
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Doctoral Student in Biochemistry, University of Washington
