Consider the evidence before entering a clinical trial, consumer representative says
People considering entering a clinical trial should not be put off from all trials by some studies with questionable financial ties.
Daniel Burdon is a reporter for The Canberra Times
People considering entering a clinical trial should not be put off from all trials by some studies with questionable financial ties.
Lobbyists for 'big food' are potentially swaying health policies in favour of their corporate bottom line in Australia, new research has claimed.
A new study has found links between medical researchers' financial ties with pharmaceutical companies and "positive" results in clinical trials.
The Department of Human Services, which controls Centrelink, has failed to meet its own targets for processing age and disability support pension claims, with the number of those processed within its target time falling about 20 per cent over the past three years.
The head of the Turnbull Government's six-month-old Australian Digital Health Agency is getting paid a tidy $522,000 annual salary package, after beating more than 100 other applicants to take the role fixing the plagued My Health Record system.
The indirect economic cost of rising numbers of ageing Australians with diabetes, measured in 'lost productive life years', is set to hit $2.9 billion a year by 2030, up from $2.1 billion in 2015.
Calls for the ACT to return to leading the national debate on safe needle exchange programs in prisons have been reignited.
The Turnbull Government has rejected a call from the Australian Medical Association to create a nation-wide Centre for Disease Control, to help prepare for and respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases.
Children who obtain alcohol from people other than their parents are three times more likely to binge drink by 15 or 16, compared to those given a drink by their parents, a major new study has found
Boys who watch an average of two hours of television every day are at a higher risk of developing "conduct and emotional problems".
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