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Jul 10 2014
Interview with Australian Doctor
I was interviewed yesterday by Michael Woodhead, a health journalist from Australian Doctor regarding my thoughts on the new interesting study by Dinger et al. (2014), on the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) from drospirenone containing combined oral contraceptive pill. The article containing my commentary was published today.
May 16 2014
Newer oral contraceptives and the risk of venous thrombosis
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May 09 2014
Summing it up – could it be rheumatoid arthritis?
This article was published in Australian Doctor in the “Grand Rounds” segment. Authors: Michael Tam and Joel Rhee This article is also available on the Australian Doctor website (registration required).
May 05 2014
Health Check: can you treat the common cold?
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 …
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.