Health Check: can you treat the common cold? By Michael Tam With symptoms including a runny nose, sore throat, sneezing, cough, headaches and fever, the common cold can leave you feeling rotten for up to two weeks. As the name suggests, they’re annoyingly common, with the average adult likely to get two or three colds …
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Apr 22 2014
Interview with NineMSN
I was interviewed today by Kimberly Gillan, a journalist and writer for NineMSN on a Health & Wellbeing article on alcohol drinking. This was in response to the rather controversial claim by Dr Kari Poikolainen that drinking is only dangerous once you go above the equivalent of a bottle of wine a day.
Mar 18 2014
Major inconsistency in AHPRA/National Boards guidelines on social media
AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) recently announced a number of revised guidelines/codes/policies for health practitioners, which came into effect on 17 March 2014. The new social media policy, and more specifically, how a part of Section 133 of the National Law (relating to the use of testimonials for advertising) has been interpreted in the Guidelines …
Mar 14 2014
Mediterranean diets in type 2 diabetes
This article was published in Medical Observer. The article is also available on the Medical Observer website (may need registration).
Mar 03 2014
Absolute cardiovascular disease risk: assessment and early intervention
The following lecture was first delivered to term 1, Phase 2 students in the Society and Health term, of the UNSW Medicine Program on Monday 3 March 2014. Length: 50 minutes Class size: up to ~ 300 (lecture) Learners: mid-Program medical students
Feb 23 2014
Comment: GP co-payments? Don’t save on primary care
The following is a comment to the online article, “GP co-payments? Don’t save on primary care” written by GP blogger, Dr Edwin Kruys. Dear Edwin, Great article. I agree with your premise. Regarding individuals valuing the services they receive from the GP more with co-payment, we should recognise that this is a complex question. We …
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