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Thomas Douglas and Peter Sheeran Introduction Maternal alcohol consumption (MAC) and foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are a significant public health concern within the Australian context, with FASD the leading cause of preventable brain damage and developmental disability nationwide. Whilst reported MAC rates have...
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JP Foong,1 M Foong,1 J Foong,1 C Heffernan,1 P Heffernan,1 B Izzard,1 P Izzard,1 D Nunes,1 E Suttie,1 C Suttie,1 I Suttie,1 JJ Suttie,2 1 Equal first author, 2 University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Murrumbidgee Local Health District Introduction Recent pandemic responses...
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Doctors from Wagga Wagga have won first prize at the Australia-New Zealand Medicine Research awards. Dr Lachlan Weir, Dr George Mallat and Associate Professor Joseph Suttie were grateful for all the local support. Research co-ordinator Simon Paton said, “We have seen an absolute explosion...
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Matthew J Lennon, Gabriel Perrottet, Joseph J Suttie Abstract Regular drug testing is a fact of life for many workers in the resource sector. Their employers and the public don’t want drug affected individuals operating machinery. Currently there is legislation to enforce a trial...
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Claire Mok Abstract An estimated 15% of all prostate cancer diagnoses are high risk, involving tumours that will advance locally or metastasise metastatica. Prognosis is poor for such patients due to the lack of methods to stratify risk, invariable treatment resistance, and a lack...
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Dong Fang Zhao, James Edelman, Michael Seco, Paul G. Bannon, Michael K. Wilson, Michael J. Byrom, Vinod Thourani, Andre Lamy, David P. Taggart, John D. Puskas, Michael P. Vallely Background Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains the standard of treatment for three-vessel and left...
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Dr Christopher Wilson, Emily Neville, A/Prof Catherine Harding Rationale General practitioner (GP) stress, burnout and retention in rural and remote areas remain critical issues to be addressed in relation to workforce distribution. Despite efforts, current strategies are failing to improve the situation. In order...
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Matthew J Lennon, Dennis Neuen, Joseph J Suttie Case report A 59 year old female presented with a history of 6 weeks of bifrontal headache that radiated down her neck and was worse upon waking and when leaning forward. There were no changes to...
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Powell, A., Mewburn, J., Finucane, P., Jude, M., Mohr, K., Objectives To build a profile of the experiences of stroke in the oldest old in the Murrumbidgee region and compare variables with two younger cohorts to test hypotheses about background, treatment and outcomes. Methods...
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Emily Heffernan Abstract The ethics of medical research is a constantly evolving field that has developed in response to failings of morality and breaches of human rights that have occurred in studies of human-based medical research. Indeed, some of the main ethical codes governing...
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