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
The Australian medical scientist saving Cambodian kids for two decades
When the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia in 1975 they reset the hands of history. To make a clean break with their nation’s history, the first year of party’s rule would be known as Year Zero
CIE report outlines benefits of pathology testing
The Centre for International Economics (CIE) has released their 2018 report The economic value of pathology: achieving better health, and a better use of health resources which suggests that inves
The medicinal power of the maggot; medieval myth or medical marvel?
Movie-goers may recall the scene in the box-office hit Gladiator when Russell Crowe, aka Marcus Aurelius, is being wheeled upside and half-conscious on a chariot through the dusty roads of Spain by sl
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 –
