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The publication of a paper in Nature describing “stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency” (STAP) caused an international sensation. It was potentially the Holy Grail of stem cell research - how…
The dispute about new contracts that senior doctors are being presented with in Queensland is the most serious medico-industrial campaign in recent memory. The details of the negotiations are outside the…
Once upon a time, not too long ago, ‘whiplash injury’ was regarded as a prototypical malingerer’s diagnosis. I can even remember an episode of the Brady Bunch where the dad ‘proved’ the plaintiff in a…
Imagine if you could get Botox on the PBS!! Expressions would start disappearing off faces all around you, turning Australia into a society of strangely youthful but surprised-looking middle-aged people…
The recent memorandum of understanding signed between supplement company Swisse and La Trobe University to establish a Complementary Medicine Evidence Centre (CMEC) looks to me like the latest effort by…
So it appears we are to be treated to another pointless examination of a manufactured controversy in the name of health science. One can only guess at the motivations for the Federal Government announcing…
Over the previous weekend the morning magazine shows I have on during lazy mornings had 2 glamorous nutritionist types breathlessly discussing the latest ‘superfoods’ that would be big in 2014. It’s difficult…
**For every complex problem, there is an answer which is clear, simple and wrong HL Mencken** The latest resurrection of the Medicare co-payment debate has resulted in storms of criticism and vituperation…
Before I begin this post in earnest, I’d like to thank regular readers and commenters for their efforts this year in Medicandus. Although posts have become a little thin in the last couple of months due…
The FDA has ordered a shutdown of the internet-based genome testing company 23andMe, in a move which I believe will help discourage inappropriate uses of gene testing. While an article elsewhere on this…