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Top Stories         Saturday, 4 July 2009

Recurrent infections 2.5x more common after antibiotics
Antibiotics linked to recurrent ear infections
Young children with acute otitis media are almost three times more likely to suffer from recurrent ear infections if they are treated with antibiotics, research published in the BMJ today suggests.
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Kidney screening best done by GPs
Opportunistic screening in the primary care setting is the best model for detection of chronic kidney disease, rather than programs targeted at the population level, an Australian review recommends.
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Back to the drawing board on islet transplants
Attempts by Australian researchers to transplant human insulin-producing islet cells into patients with type 1 diabetes have achieved little success in early trials.
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6minutes columnists
 From the surgery - Annette Katelaris
It pays to invest in primary care
By now, you have probably heard the results of the latest Access Economics report that almost 90,000 Australians are expected to suffer a myocardial infarct this year, at a staggering economic cost of $18 billion dollars. ...... [more]
 
 From the editor - Michael Woodhead
The joys of booking stuff online
On my recent overseas holiday I got to thinking about whether medicine is one of the few remaining areas of modern life where things are not done online. ...... [more]
 
 
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