An early diagnosis can be the difference between living and dying.
Medical panels are constantly lowering thresholds across many diseases, which results in more and more healthy people being diagnosed as sick.
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More of us are labelled as sick with the constantly changing diagnostic cut-offs for diseases. Now an international expert panel has drafted a list of things to consider before setting new thresholds.
Doctors can tell a lot about your health from your urine sample, if you take it properly.
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In Australia, only three infectious diseases are known to be transmitted from ticks to humans: Queensland tick typhus; Flinders Island Spotted Fever; and Q fever.
About one in four people regrets having tattoos.
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Tattoos often seem like a good idea in the moment, but tattoo regret is common. There is good reason, not the least of which is infection.
If artificial intelligence can scan thousands of medical papers at the click of a button, will we need doctors in the future?
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Irrational prescriptions are a major global health problem. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than half of all medicines are inappropriately prescribed, dispensed or sold.
Thinking too fast?
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With an estimated 100,000 health and fitness apps available, it seems there is an app for everything – from tracking your bowel movements to practising your pimple-popping technique.
These tiny implants can attract and capture cancer cells.
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By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
It takes time for a human to become good at diagnosing ailments, but that learning is lost when they retire.
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Humans can only do so much when it comes to diagnosing what’s wrong with a patient. So why not let machines take over? They learn faster than humans and never retire.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne