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Ep71: Voluntary Assisted Dying—what have we learned?
Episode 71
In 2017, Victoria was the first state in Australia to pass voluntary assisted legislation and has been followed by Western Australia, Tasmania and no…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep70: Zeroing in on “the renal troponin”
Episode 70
Acute Kidney Injury makes a greater contribution to early mortality than acute myocardial infarction and it's been argued we should consider the conc…
5 years ago
Ep69: Gendered Medicine—Funding and Research
Episode 69
This is the third and final part of our series on gendered medicine. We step back and look at the way that health care and research are funded. It’s …
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep68: Gendered Medicine—Pain
Episode 68
Gender can be considered a social determinant of health, in the different pressures and expectations it puts on women and men. For example, the taboo…
5 years, 3 months ago
Ep67: Boosting Public Health in the Indo-Pacific
Episode 67
This is the fourth and final part in our series on Global Health Security. Australia’s Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security was launched in 2017 t…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ep66: Gendered Medicine—Heart Disease
Episode 66
We traditionally think of cardiovascular disease as a man’s problem, but it’s the leading cause of death for women as well as men in most of the indu…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ep65: A New Script for Global Public Health
Episode 65
In this episode we present some provocative solutions to problems presented in the previous two stories.We heard about pharmaceutical patents, and ho…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ep64: Big Pharma and the People’s Vaccine
Episode 64
This is part 2 in our series on global public health and focuses on the impact of intellectual property laws on the development and distribution of p…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ep63: the WHO’s Biggest Test
Episode 63
During the COVID-19 crisis there has been some criticism of the World Health Organisation as to whether it declared a pandemic soon enough or covered…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ep62: Essential Ethics in Adolescent Health
Episode 62
In episode 59 we shared a sampler of the Essential Ethics podcast from the Children's Bioethics Centre, at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. …
5 years, 10 months ago