Too often, prescribing errors occur due to programming errors or poor design and have less to do with the health workers using the system.
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Groundbreaking series Medic helped shape both the TV medical drama and the image of the medical profession. 70 years later, it may still have things to tell us.
So you’ve taken up running again… until the inevitable aches kick in. What causes muscle pain? And is there anything you can do about it?
Some IV fluids are in short supply due to higher-than-expected demand and manufacturing issues. But why do IV fluids contain different chemicals? And why can’t they be interchanged when one runs low?
The Associate Health Minister’s letter of expectations for Pharmac includes things that could fundamentally alter its core objective of getting the best health outcomes within its budget.
In the majority of cases, medications help patients. But even when treatment of individual illnesses is effective, treatment as a whole can become problematic.
New research finds a link between childhood trauma and a reduced engagement with healthcare services later in life.
Australia is recruiting more overseas-trained doctors to fill doctor shortages. But when a high-income country like Australia does this, we risk causing a ‘brain drain’ elsewhere.
Changes to medical terminology in Latin may affect how anatomists not trained in the language understand and communicate information.
Here are some steps you can take to use opioids more safely and effectively at home.
Future space missions will fly farther and longer than ever before – which means crew members may need more involved medical care in space.
Science has a need to verify results, but DeepMind’s protein prediction tool doesn’t work this way.
Genomic research stands to help develop new medical treatments – and we need donations of lots of data for this to work. But people don’t want data on their genes to be exploited for profit.
If you want to know more about a drug, Health Canada provides information online through several websites. However, some information appears to be getting harder to find.
Stopping cells from dividing into new cells is one way to fight cancer. This is how the drug abemaciclib works.
The concept of deep medicine would use AI to free up staff, benefiting patient care.
Having asymptomatic flat feet is not a problem and does not require treatment. It’s important to debunk this common myth.
There is no legal duty to tell a patient they have been prescribed a drug ‘off label’.
In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by avoiding inauspicious days.
A drug newly approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for endometriosis is available in Australia.
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