Australia’s response to environmental PFAS contamination to minimise toxicological effects has been excellent, but several problems remain. These relate to the design of the PFAS Taskforce website and its provenance. I discuss these matters in this review.
This paper describes a novel approach to treatment of young adult patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, in which the patient has the option of determining when he or she is admitted to a specialist custom clinical psychological unit during a relapse of symptoms. Preliminary data suggests that the approach is effective in reducing symptoms and frequency of admission.
This brief paper reviews the current situation in Australia over concern with environmental contamination by polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS).
This republished article describes the situation for nurses and nursing practice at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally published in the Journal of Evidence-based Nursing Practice
Report of case of black yeast (Exophiala xenobiotica) infection in an immunocompetent patient.
The authors provide a comprehensive review of what is currently known about plant-based therapy of fungal skin infections
We have investigated the level of agreement for cause of death data in 232 patients who died of primary liver cancer, based on National (Australia Bureau of Statistics) and State (Tasmanian Cancer Registry) data and independent medical practitioners. The agreement between the ABS and TCR was poor but between medical practitioners was strong, and intermediate for comparisons between practitioners and either agency. Overall, cause-specific survival time was similar across the TCR, ABS and medical practitioners; with a small difference observed regarding the type of liver cancer. As liver cancer is a low-survival cancer, such results may be different to cancers with better survival such as breast cancer. Utilisation of specialist clinician oversight might improve data cohesion and fidelity.
We describe the operation of the amendment to WA legislation that explicitly provides for research in incapacitated subject and in Emergency or Intensive care settings, concentrating on ethical aspects.
As a child the writer was told a joke about a liquid which dissolved everything. The question was what container could you keep it in?
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