Articles
Medical Research Future Fund - A Nation-Building Opportunity
This article was published in our Spring 2014 edition of Australian Hospital and Healthcare Bulletin. In light of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) passing Senate last week, we have republished it to remind you of the key issues under discussion. [ + ]
Stress Leads to Chronic Illness and Premature Ageing
Professor Timothy Olds from the University of South Australia will present his findings next week that stress leads to chronic illnesses such as diabetes, stroke, asthma, heart disease, depression and osteoporosis as well as premature aging. [ + ]
Queensland Public Doctors Receive New Contract
Health Minister Cameron Dick said that the government had reached agreement with the doctors’ main bargaining bodies- Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation Queensland as well as Together Queensland- over a new enterprise agreement. [ + ]
Fear-Based Health Information Makes New Mothers Anxious
Heather Rowe, Monash University and Jane Fisher, Monash University [ + ]
Seeking Medical Selfies
A medical researcher from QUT is completing her PhD on patient-generated health data, where patients track and collect data on their own health using wearable technology, smartphone apps and selfies. [ + ]
We’re Overdosing on Medicine
It’s Time to Embrace Life’s Uncertainty The more we learn about the problem of too much medicine and what’s driving it, the harder it seems to imagine effective solutions. Winding back unnecessary tests and treatments will require a raft of reforms across medical research, education and regulation. [ + ]
The Ethics and Practice of Twenty-First Century Intensive Care Units
It is ethically and legally important to respect patient’s autonomy and dignity and to always act in their best interests and avoid doing harm, writes Professor William Silvester. [ + ]
Workplace Skills: Coaching Your Peers
We have asked leadership and coaching consultant Stacey Ashley to provide some practical workplace skills in the area of people management. In this article Stacey takes us through the art of coaching our peers, whether in a formal or informal coaching or mentoring relationship. [ + ]
Clinical Trials of FODMAP Diet Question Effectiveness
The low-FODMAP diet was developed in Australia by Monash University for those suffering from medically-diagnosed Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Functional Gastro-Intestinal Disorder (FGID). While it is increasingly being prescribed by dieticians and GPs as lifestyle treatment for these conditions, a review of the available data has been published in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (dtb) showing very little evidence that the diet’s recommendation of avoiding dietary carbohydrate does actually control symptoms. [ + ]
Is Depression a Mental or Physical Illness?
Ute Vollmer-Conna, UNSW Australia and Gordon Parker, UNSW Australia [ + ]
Royal Melbourne Hospital Manages Its Assets
Royal Melbourne Hospital has adopted the Hardcat software in its overhaul of an ageing asset management system, leading to reduced equipment downtime and improved administrative processes (such as integration of the never-ending trail of paperwork). [ + ]
Intracellular Microlasers to Track Cancer Migration
Intracellular microlasers - or microscopic lasers introduced into the interior of live cells - could perhaps be used to track cancer cells as they move throughout the body. At least, that’s the hope thanks to a study published in Nature Photonics, which described the study of lasers tracking white blood cells through animals’ bodies for a number of days. [ + ]
