Dr Sean Rothwell and Dr David Rosengren led a research expedition to investigate the prevalence of exercise-associated hyponatraemia (EAH) on the Kokoda Trail – Tracking a killer (Kokoda’s Medical Mystery)
Tourette’s Syndrome – a fathers perspective
June 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
It was not until two years later that the diagnosis of Tourette’s syndrome was made. 1997 was deteriorating into an annus horribilis. Edward had been in hospital for weeks with a severe septic arthritis of the hip, we sold our over-capitalized house and my brother-in-law in England needed chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
CPR Education Goes Viral
June 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
The UCEM has been led to believe that keyword search terms are essential to create a ‘viral’ marketing campaign for the new resuscitation guidelines and have decided to play with Pornography to start with.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 016
June 4, 2010 By 9 Comments
Relax and unwind with some medical trivia…This week we enter the territory of medical nerds and geeks and try to tackle some philosophical questions on Occam’s razor, Hickam’s dictum, Hofstadter’s law and their implications in diagnostic parsimony
Seafood poisoning
June 2, 2010 By 6 Comments
A couple present to the ED with vomiting and paraesthesiae after eating at a seafood restaurant. Can you help them by solving the seafood poisoning conundrum?
iPad retrospection
June 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I love my iPad…that is when I can wrestle it from the kids for more than a nanosecond! It seems, however, that not everybody shares the same enthusiasm for the handy little device, including David Penberthy from ‘The Punch’
How’s Your Sugar?
June 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
The How’s Your Sugar? website deals with the issues faced by Australian Indigenous people in ‘living well’ with type 2 diabetes. It uses peer-to-peer narrative through interactive video clips and simple graphics to help explain the importance of food, exercise, medication and smoking cessation on controlling diabetes.
