A supplement in the latest Medical Journal of Australia examines the past and the future for general practice training, including challenges in areas such as keeping training programs upto- date, Indigenous health, rural and remote health, aged care and military medicine. Professor Michael Kidd from Flinders University and co-editors of the supplement examine the past [...]

A large international Canadian-led clinical trial investigating a new way to prevent breast cancer in women at increased risk of developing the disease has found that the drug exemestane reduces this risk by 65 per cent compared with placebo. The results were presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology [...]

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by Charles D. A. Wolfe, Siobhan L. Crichton, Peter U. Heuschmann, Christopher J. McKevitt, André M. Toschke, Andy P. Grieve, Anthony G. Rudd Background Although stroke is acknowledged as a long-term condition, population estimates of outcomes longer term are lacking. Such estimates would be useful for planning health services and developing research that might ultimately [...]

Title: New Strain of MRSA Found in MilkCategory: Health NewsCreated: 6/3/2011 11:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/3/2011 Further information: Article source

One of the most promising avenues for interpreting large datasets of molecular expression profiles involves pathway-based analysis. Pathways are collection of genes and proteins that perform a well-defined biological task. These pathways have been established through decades of molecular biology research and are collected in a variety of public pathway repositories (KEGG and Reactome Pathway [...]

Influenza vaccination could protect unborn children from the risk of premature birth, a study suggests. Further information: Article source

Axiomtek has announced its wide-temperature SBC84826 3.5in embedded board for solutions used in unconstrained thermal environments like outdoor embedded system, medical, industrial control, automation, and gaming machines. The rugged yet super-compact size SBC84826 supports an industrial-temperature grade Intel® Atom™ processor Z510PT 1.1GHz with the Intel System Controller Hub (SCH) US15WPT. It offers -40°C to +85°C [...]

Bachem is continuously expanding and updating its extensive range of products for your research purposes. We are pleased to present our latest product additions, which include several Pro-VGF-derived peptides, osteoblast activating peptides, and two deuterium-labelled API analogs. A number of products including building blocks for click chemistry and new coupling reagents has also been added [...]

Health professionals should ensure they are prescribing correct doses of colchicine, a treatment for acute gout, after three elderly patients were hospitalised within a fortnight, doctors at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney say in a letter published in the Medical Journal of Australia. All three patients presented with vomiting and diarrhoea, and all had been [...]