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  • PDF 677kb Health performance indicators
    AIHW/Nicola Roxon, 2008
  • PDF 677kb HRT Guidelines 2008
    International Menopause Society
  • PDF 677kb Chemobrain is real
    JNCI 2008; 100: 163-5
  • PDF 677kb AMA Budget Submission 2008
    AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION – JANUARY 2008
  • PDF 677kb BRCA2 risks leaflet
    Dr Graeme Suthers, Women’s and Children’s Hospital
  • PDF 677kb BRCA1 risks leaflet
    Dr Graeme Suthers, Women’s and Children’s Hospital
  • PDF 677kb Assessment of overseas doctors
    Report by Prof Bob Birrell, Monash University
  • PDF 677kb Tony Abbott speech on e-health
    E-Health Report Card
  • PDF 677kb Mal Brough speech
    Address to Child Care NSW Conference.
  • PDF 369kb Compounding chemist "emails"
    Bogus emails alleging dodgy practices.
  • PDF 258kb HRT and ovarian cancer study
    Lancet: Ovarian cancer and HRT in the Million Women Study
  • PDF 369kb Australian CPR Guidelines 2006
    Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines for CPR recommend a higher ratio of compressions to breaths.
  • PDF 677kb Reed Elsevier and the Arms Trade
    Lancet position statement opposing involvement in arms fairs.
  • PDF 369kb ICTUS Trial of interventions for ST Elevation MI
    A new trial in the Lancet suggests that a conservative approach may be just as good in terms of mortality and future AMIs.
  • PDF 677kb American Heart Association Position Statement on NSAIDs
    Recommends that COX-2 inhibitors only be used as the last choice after other types of NSAID to relieve chronic pain in people with heart disease or at high risk of it.
  • PDF 52kb Low fat (DASH) die debunked
    Editorial from American Journal of Hypertension [italics] on low fat diets and heart disease.
  • PDF 448kb Heart failure position statement
    National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.
  • PDF 769kb AMA Primary Care Position Statement
    This 2006 document examines the role of general practice in the future.
  • PDF 160kb Primary Care Comparison in Seven Countries
    A Commonwealth Fund report on the differences in primary care in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
 

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