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Since the inception of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in the late 1940s there has been a dramatic increase in the range of medicines that are available to the Australian community. The simultaneous rise in the prevalence of chronic disease means that many patients are taking multiple...

Nerve conduction studies (NCS) and needle electromyography (EMG) are collectively termed ‘clinical neurophysiology’. They enable the clinician to detect signs that cannot be confirmed by neurological examination alone and can guide diagnosis and treatment.

Sometimes I wonder what medical secrets my body holds. Do I have gallstones just waiting for the next meal of fish and chips to erupt into biliary colic? What degree of osteoarthritis is accumulating unseen in my spine? How much atherosclerosis is silently mounting up in my arteries? Then again...

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Australia is the world capital of melanoma and despite our best efforts to ‘slip-slop-slap’ the incidence of melanoma continues to rise. In 2007, 10 342 Australians were diagnosed with melanoma and 1279 people died from the disease.

Books reviewed this month are Advanced prostate cancer by the Cancer Council of Australia, and Primary Care Mental Health by Linda Gask, Helen Lester, Tony Kendrick and Robert Peveler.