Professor Gordon Parker believes medicine is on the brink of a breakthrough in treating bipolar disorder and other mood disorders using faecal microbiota transplants. One…
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Oral vancomycin replaces metronidazole as first-line treatment for Clostridioides difficile in new guidelines from infectious diseases physicians. In the first changes since 2016, the Australasian…
Most Aussies say ‘prawn’ not ‘shrimp’, but they still recognise shrimp’s meaning in the seafood context — how many will recognise the context of ‘shrimp…
Patients with uncomplicated diverticulosis are no more likely than those without the condition to experience abdominal pain or changes in bowel habits, a novel study…
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After his first battle with the Medical Services Advisory Committee lasted seven years, Associate Professor Tom Sutherland doubted he had strength for another. But the…
There is a term in medicine that has always made me feel uncomfortable. It gets used less now, but you still hear it: heartsink —…
A 51-year-old man was left rectally impaled after his folding chair collapsed beneath him and part of the frame penetrated his anus, his treating doctors…
Zane is a three-week-old male infant brought in by his parents with two days of fussiness with feeds, vomiting and now lethargy. Test your clinical…
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