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| UpdatedMedical professionals are raising concerns about a potential conflict of interest in the widespread practice of pharmaceutical companies sponsoring little-known hospital "journal clubs".
Topics: pharmaceuticals, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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There are concerns drug companies will be better able to hide how much they wine and dine doctors under changes to public reporting rules, with one expert labelling the changes a "step backwards" for transparency.
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| UpdatedSydney couple Claudine and Dave Fitzgibbon were facing the difficult decision to proceed with a pregnancy after another spina bifida diagnosis or to terminate, but then doctors offered a glimmer of hope.
Topics: medical-procedures, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, babies---newborns, people, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedNearly a third of Australian pharmacists are recommending complementary medicine products that are not supported by hard evidence — so why are chemists stocking them and do your herbal supplements actually work?
Topics: vitamins, health, diet-and-nutrition, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle-and-leisure, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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Sue Godfrey is one of those questioning the marketing of new-generation blood thinners including Pradaxa, the medication her elderly mother had been taking before she died of a stroke.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, stroke, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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| UpdatedAn ABC investigation finds pharmaceutical companies spent more than $2.6 million on "educational events" for doctors on new-generation blood thinners in just six months in 2015, raising concerns the potentially risky drugs are being prescribed to some patients who may not need them.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, stroke, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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The medical association calls for extra legislative protections to make it easier for doctors to report potentially dodgy drivers that might need their licences revoked.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, states-and-territories, laws, accidents, darwin-0800
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Lou Lewis, one of the doctors involved in the highly anticipated re-match between boxers Anthony Mundine and Danny Green, quit after Green was concussed in the first round but the bout was allowed to go another nine rounds.
Topics: boxing, sport, doctors-and-medical-professionals, occupational-health-and-safety, health, adelaide-5000, sa
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An Esperance farm worker reflects on the dramatic rescue that saved his arm after he got stuck in a chaser bin.
Topics: farm-labour, disasters-and-accidents, doctors-and-medical-professionals, cascade-6450
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Australia's medical research sector mourns one of its giants after Basil Hetzel, who confirmed the link between iodine deficiency and brain damage in unborn children, dies.
Topics: death, community-and-society, health, medical-history, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedPatients with multiple sclerosis will soon have access to a new test which can tell them exactly what type of MS they have and how well their medications are working.
Topics: multiple-sclerosis, diseases-and-disorders, health, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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| UpdatedA photographic exhibition featuring doctors and medical professionals from regional Queensland gives audiences a look at the faces behind the surgical masks.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, regional, lifestyle, photography, cairns-4870, atherton-4883, innisfail-4860
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The New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian is committed to providing better death and disability insurance cover to paramedics.
Topics: health, state-parliament, parliament, unions, community-and-society, doctors-and-medical-professionals, workplace, work, tamworth-2340, nsw
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| UpdatedA Perth doctor is deregistered for having sexual contact with a female patient and then persistently lying about it, with his conduct condemned as "clearly calculated" by the State Administrative Tribunal president.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, courts-and-trials, perth-6000, woodvale-6026