Evolving appreciation of risks to health associated with environmental per- and polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS)
This brief paper reviews the current situation in Australia over concern with environmental contamination by polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS).
ISSN: 2652-1881
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
Sophisticated mathematical modeling of epidemic or pandemic spread of infections is based on differential equations containing exponential functions. The sophistication of these models is essential but they have a disadvantage of being difficult or impossible to be understood by readers unfamiliar with advanced mathematics. I have developed a spreadsheet model to estimate infection rates and mortality with Covid-19 as a function of time using only a few simple assumptions.
This issue of the Journal breaks new ground, by focusing on the research output of a single major Australasian teaching hospital, the Royal Perth Hospital.
In an erudite and moving article first published in the Weekend Australian, Senator Patrick Dodson has questioned the benefit of the proposed WA legislation for “voluntary assisted dying” (a euphemism for euthanasia) for aboriginal Australians.
It is my great pleasure to welcome readers and future contributors to the Tasman Medical Journal, the first imprint of Tasman Journals.
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