Dr Lachlan Fraser lost his house, his worldly possessions and his medical practice in the Black Saturday bushfires, but from the devastation he gained a wife and a daughter.

It is 10 years since fire

Some 250,000 Australians are hospitalised each year as a result of adverse reactions to medications — a figure that has changed little in 30 years, a new report suggests.

A review of 16 Australian

Burn injuries are common in the paediatric population, and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality.1

Paediatric burn injuries can have devastating consequences, lifelong impacts and

Paramedics' handwashing habits have been found wanting, with their adherence to simple standards to protect patients from infection “remarkably low”, a study including Australian workers has found.

Using medical scribes helps doctors see more patients, reduces costs and also cuts the amount of time patients spend in hospital, an Australian study shows.

Doctors who had a medical scribe to

Antibiotic therapy in patients with severe asthma flares has been shown to provide no additional benefit, according to the results of a large retrospective US analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In the first reported case of its kind (thankfully), an Irish man ended up with a serious skin infection after injecting himself with his own semen.

The 33-year-old presented to a Dublin hospital

Frantic staff can be heard desperately trying to save the life of a baby, born unexpectedly to a woman who had been in a coma for years, in audio of an emergency call released by police in the US.

‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the approach sometimes taken with gunshot wounds — that is, if removing the bullet would do more harm than good.

But a recent report in the New England Journal of

Doctors have been urged to write prescriptions in block capitals after an unfortunate mix-up led to a woman using an erectile dysfunction cream to treat her dry eye.

The UK woman had a handwritten