In the majority of cases, medications help patients. But even when treatment of individual illnesses is effective, treatment as a whole can become problematic.
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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.
Students are invited to imagine how the social, political and legal landscape for cannabis will look in the future.
Two forms of the same boron nitride molecules couldn’t look and act more different – but combining them could lead to applications that have the best of both worlds.
A new study finds more emergency medicine residencies are available, but hundreds of the positions are going unfilled.
Zosurabalpin is highly effective against dangerous bacterium Crab, which can kill up to 60% of people infected with it.
From helping surgeons to carry out complex procedures to monitoring the heartbeat of the chronically ill, the use of AI in cancer care is set to be game-changing.
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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
