That Homebirth Study in South Australia
Planned home and hospital births in South Australia, 1991-2006: differences in outcomes Robyn Kennare, Marc Keirse, Graeme Tucker and Annabelle Chan, MJA 192(2), 18 January 2009 You’re going to be hearing a lot from the Australian Medical Association about That Homebirth Study In South Australia, so here are a few actual facts to be getting [...]
Journalwatch: Emergency dept “frequent flyers” not hypochondriacs, says new study
Y’all know that one of the science-reporting peeves is the media not providing enough information for readers to find the original source without detective work. There’s often a last name, and sometimes a journal name, but publication dates are uncommon, and article titles are never shown. How hard is it to throw in a reference, [...]
RU486 Import Restrictions in Australia: Reprise
I wrote about the Australia import restrictions on RU486 back in December, when this article by Mary Lander appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia: “The fight for a life-saving drug: a personal perspective”. RU486 is a progesterone antagonist – it blocks the action of the hormone progesterone in the body. This makes it useful [...]
Journalwatch: Ethics chairs unaware of research sexism; breast cancer and HRT use fall in concert
In today’s Hoyden Journalwatch: Adelaide bioethics researchers found that human research ethics committee chairs in Australia were unaware of issues of sexism in scientific research. The research, published in today’s Medical Journal of Australia[1], consisted of interviews with 25 chairs of Australian Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) in the last twelve months. The researchers aimed [...]
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