Nov 28 2014
I presented this abstract (PDF, 344 KB) as an oral short presentation at the 9th annual Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and South Western Sydney Local Health District (2014) Research & Teaching Showcase, held today at the Thomas & Rachel Moore Education Centre, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool NSW Australia.
A recorded version of the presentation is available on YouTube:
Nov 07 2014
This article was published in Medical Observer.
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Sep 29 2014
By Michael Tam
If you’re an adult and have ever visited a doctor, you’ve probably had your blood pressure measured. General practitioners tend to obsess over blood pressure. But with good reason: hypertension, or persistently high blood pressure, can lead to heart disease, stroke and diabetes, the nation’s biggest killers.
Blood pressure refers to how hard the blood is pushing against the wall of arteries – these can be thought of as the pipes that deliver blood from the heart (the blood “pump”) to the rest of the body. Continue reading
Sep 05 2014
This article was published in Medical Observer.
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Jul 11 2014
This article was published in Medical Observer.
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Jul 10 2014
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.