PATHOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA
Pathology is a medical specialty that determines the cause and nature of diseases by examining and testing body tissues and bodily fluids. There are many different areas of pathology, what answers are you looking for today?
What is pathology and how does it affect my health?
Pathology is the medical specialty that determines the cause and nature of diseases. Pathology results help your doctor make a diagnosis, rule out possible diseases, monitor the effectiveness of treatment or even guide a surgical procedure.
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Because 70% of medical treatment decisions rely on pathology, it plays a central part in the entire Australian, and global, healthcare system.
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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 sa
David swapped a life on the land for a career in the lab
Since entering the world of pathology in 1974, medical scientist, David Nielsen, has witnessed enormous changes.
Automation of testing procedures, centralise
Automatic reporting improves kidney patient outcomes
There are 1.7 million Australian adults out there with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and amazingly 90% of them don’t know they have it. For over 1.5 million A
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Australians working in pathology
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Percent of medical decisions rely on pathology
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Million tests in Australia every year
35,000
Australians working in pathology
70
Percent of medical decisions rely on pathology
