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When celebrities go public with their prostate cancer diagnoses, they do more than raise awareness.
Prescriptions for ADHD have grown 11-fold in 20 years. As GPs begin to prescribe ADHD medication, will this rise again?
The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.
Australia’s IVF industry generates more than $800 million each year.
People with back pain are increasingly accessing emergency health care that isn’t required and may leave them worse off.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. Although watchful waiting is appropriate for low-risk cases, many are diagnosed at an advanced stage because of racial health disparities.
Men who had radiotherapy to treat their prostate cancer were three times more likely to develop bladder cancer compared with untreated men.
Corporate medicine is hijacking feminist narratives around empowerment and women’s rights to market technologies, tests and treatments that aren’t backed by evidence.
People with low-risk prostate cancer are more likely to die from something else. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment can lead to life-changing complications.
About one in six pregnant women in Australia are now diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Rates have more than doubled since the thresholds for diagnosis were changed.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. Although watchful waiting is appropriate for low-risk cases, many are diagnosed at an advanced stage because of racial health disparities.
More and more healthy women and men are found to have thyroid nodules. What are they? And should you be worried about them?
As access to health care increases, there’s also a danger of getting too much of it.
These 3 common surgeries have been found to be of little to no benefit, but thousands are still performed every year.
With more than 850 changes to Medicare on the cards, the system needs time to adjust. Hasty implementation may mean patients face higher gap fees.
Our new study shows a widely used fertility treatment, known as ICSI, is no better than standard IVF for most people. Yet, it’s being routinely offered around the world.
How do you know if your child’s behaviour is normal or a sign of ADHD? The answer is not so clear cut. And now we have the evidence to show the consequences.
Health professionals should carefully consider the terms they use to avoid needless anxiety and unnecessary surgeries.
Once his leg fracture heals, his leg can potentially be just as straight and strong as it was before. But his foot and ankle are more of a worry.
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Manager, University of Sydney and Honorary Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UNSW
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Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Women and Girls' Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Medicine, Bond University
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow in Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Associate Professor, Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
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Senior Associate Vice President Community Health, Education and Training, Old Dominion University; Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Florida
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
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NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Sydney School of Health, University of Sydney