CROUCHING CONDITION, HIDDEN DISEASES – WHY PATHOLOGY MATTERS
What do hypothyroidism, type 2 diabetes, coeliac disease, kidney disease, chronic myelogenous leukaemia, and hypertension have in common?
They’re just a sample of the many health conditions that
Allergies: Australia’s 365 day-a-year problem
Most people equate spring with allergies, but the fact is that allergies are a 365-day-a-year problem in Australia.
With Australia’s vast landmass comes enormous variation in plant life and weath
Thyroid disease: an historic problem that won’t go away
There’s something a little bit different about Tasmania. Not just the landscape but the people as well.
Pathologist Dr Lawrie Bott, who practiced medicine in Tasmania for 10 years and who has con
Politicians receive prostate tests at parliament house
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month, and to underscore its importance, Pathology Awareness Australia and the Parliamentary Friends of Prostate Cancer Awareness invited male parliamentarians a
What’s behind Australia’s syphilis outbreak and the rise of STIs?
In what Minister for Indigenous Health, Ken Wyatt, described as a ‘surge response’, on 8 August the federal government injected an emergency $8.8 million into tackling an outbreak of syphilis in N
The case for targeted preventive healthcare
Australians travelling overseas and needing medical treatment will be familiar with the leading-edge quality of our health system – from our hospitals, pharmaceutical benefits system and pathology l
Is health in the western world at the bottom of a nasty J-curve?
For most of human history one of the major threats to a long life was scarcity: in particular scarcity of food and medicine. Hunger and disease made life – to paraphrase the 17th century philosopher
FOFO a no-no; five good reasons to do the bowel screening test
Those in contact with young people may be familiar with the acronym FOMO. For those not in the know, FOMO stands for Fear of Missing Out. But very few people will be familiar with the acronym FOFO –
