Bring on 2021
2020 is a year the vast majority of us would like to forget. This time last year most of us had never heard the word coronavirus. COVID-1...
Dec 29, 2020 / Read More
Coronavirus vaccines — are we there yet?
A few weeks ago, Australia received the disappointing news that the University of Queensland SARS-CoV2 vaccine had been withdrawn as a po...
Dec 29, 2020 / Read More
Atrial fibrillation – a slight modification to my article from last week
When anyone makes a mistake, it is my strong opinion that they should admit they did something wrong and try to correct the wrong. Last w...
Dec 08, 2020 / Read More
Atrial fibrillation – the commonest significant rhythm disturbance in the heart
Our bodies evolved over thousands of years to function well for 30–40 years wandering around the jungle with a spear. There has not been ...
Dec 02, 2020 / Read More
Brain cancer — the next frontier
Despite enormous advances in the management of various cancers over the past two decades, one of the most difficult cancers to treat is b...
Nov 23, 2020 / Read More
COVID-19 vaccine — a step closer?
The multi-national drug company Pfizer have just published a press release lauding the benefits of their new COVID-19 vaccine. This parti...
Nov 21, 2020 / Read More
You are what you drink?
When you think about diet or nutrition, your thoughts are mainly towards what foods you consume on a regular basis. But over the past few...
Nov 11, 2020 / Read More
Food/drug interactions: Should we be concerned?
The human body is such a complex structure and is working all the time to keep us in balance. This requires the coordination of thousands...
Oct 26, 2020 / Read More
The True Epidemic of the 21st Century
Although, no doubt, 2020 has changed the world in so many ways and it will long be said that COVID-19 was the major epidemic of the 21st-...
Oct 19, 2020 / Read More
Cancer — How close are we to winning the war?
When I started my medical degree in the 70s, a diagnosis of cancer was typically a death sentence. Occasionally, if cancer was detected e...
Oct 14, 2020 / Read More