Survival in cancer patients: improving the accuracy of our estimates There's a long held belief that, as a cancer patient, the longer you survive the better you're going to do.
Professor Suzanne Chambers is the Director of Research at the Cancer Council Queensland, and has been involved in some research that has improved the accuracy of cancer patients' survival estimates. Trimming the fat from the menu labelling debate Menu labelling in restaurants and fast food outlets is fairly nonexistant in Australia, in spite of the push by consumer groups and people in preventative health.
A recent study by Associate Professor Eric Finkelstein of Duke National University (Singapore), suggests it might not be worth the effort to implement the initiative after all. Is adding folate to flour worth it? Since 2009 in Australia, folate has been added to flour in the hope of reducing the risk of children being born with spina bifida. But is it working?
Dr Ross Brown of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney has some answers. Treating middle ear infections For decades antibiotics have been the choice of prescription when treating otitis media, or middle ear infection. But recent research has suggested that this might not always be the best way to proceed.
Professor Jerome Klein of Paediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine sheds some light on what's changed.