Australian athletes destined for the Tokyo Olympic Games will be prioritised for vaccination. National cabinet on Tuesday agreed the Australian team would be vaccinated under priority group 1b, which includes health care workers, Indigenous Australians aged over 55 and elderly people older than 70. About 2050 people will be vaccinated – up to 480 athletes… Read More »
A study of gay and bisexual male participants in the first large implementation study of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Australia has found that although rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were high, they did not increase in the two years after starting PrEP. In contrast, they increased significantly in the year before men… Read More »
As a medical recruiter, and (I am a little embarrassed to admit it) former health service manager, I can see some palpable parallels between working with the health system, and the absurd (but all to familiar?) characters in Alice in Wonderland. It must have taken a Mad Hatter to design the current system for working… Read More »