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Information for patients and clinicians on how to gain access to medicinal cannabis in South Australia.
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Everyone likes to occasionally unwind, celebrate and have a good time. However, consuming alcohol and drugs can hurt your body and have negative social consequences.
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Campylobacter infection (also known as campylobacteriosis) is an infection of the digestive tract (or gut), caused by Campylobacter bacteria.
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Anthrax is a potentially fatal but very rare disease in Australia and usually occurs in people who have close contact with animals or their products
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Campylobacter infection usually causes gastroenteritis but may lead to more serious illness. Eating contaminated food is the most frequent cause.
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a respiratory illness caused by a virus called SARS associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV).
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Being active is important for all Australians and getting started is easy. Read our helpful hints for different age groups and find the best activity for you.
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Get Healthy at Work is a NSW Health service that aims to improve the health of working adults.
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A hysterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove a woman’s uterus (womb) which is where a baby grows during pregnancy.
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How infectious diseases spread including via air, personal contact, soiled objects, skin, mucous membranes, saliva, urine, blood, sexual contact, food and water
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You can refer a patient to Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for consideration of a clinical trial. Trials are conducted in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and patient experiences.
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The rescheduling of pharmaceuticals that include codeine will tighten access to these drugs from 1 February. This makes now a timely moment to consider some of the wider measures that GPs can take to improve patient outcomes and avoid the over-prescription of some medications.
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This opioid equianalgesic calculator is designed for specialist and general medical practitioners as well as for medical students, nurses and allied health practitioners engaged in the care of patients with persistent pain
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This fact sheet is a brief guide to identifying and responding to requests for drugs of dependence that might be inappropriate.
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Authors' conclusions: Adjunctive estrogen with or without progesterone does not appear to offer convincing advantages over placebo
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Authors' conclusions: Caution is required in interpreting the results given the methodological limitations of the included trials in terms of internal and external validity
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Authors' conclusions: Only one randomised clinical trial has examined bicyclol for patients with chronic hepatitis C
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Authors' conclusions: Understandably amphetamines are rarely formally evaluated in randomised studies and therefore unpublished work in this area is likely to exist
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Authors' conclusions: The small number of studies included in this review do not permit any conclusions to be drawn on the effectiveness of meditation therapy for anxiety disorders
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Authors' conclusions: Sham-controlled RCTs have found no benefits of acupuncture relative to a credible sham acupuncture control for IBS symptom severity or IBS-related quality of life
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