Articles
Workplace Skills: Coaching Your Peers
We have asked leadership and coaching consultant Stacey Ashley聽to provide some practical workplace skills in the area of people聽management. In this article Stacey takes us through the art of coaching our peers, whether in a formal or informal coaching or mentoring relationship. [ + ]
Clinical Trials of FODMAP Diet Question Effectiveness
The low-FODMAP diet was developed in Australia by Monash University for those suffering from medically-diagnosed Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Functional Gastro-Intestinal Disorder (FGID). While it is increasingly being prescribed by dieticians and GPs as lifestyle treatment for these conditions, a review of the available data has been published in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (dtb) showing very little evidence that the diet鈥檚 recommendation of avoiding dietary carbohydrate does actually control symptoms. [ + ]
Is Depression a Mental or Physical Illness?
Ute Vollmer-Conna, UNSW Australia and Gordon Parker, UNSW Australia [ + ]
Royal Melbourne 黑料吃瓜群网 Manages Its Assets
Royal Melbourne 黑料吃瓜群网 has adopted the Hardcat software in its overhaul of an ageing asset management system, leading to reduced equipment downtime and improved administrative processes (such as integration of the never-ending trail of paperwork). [ + ]
Intracellular Microlasers to Track Cancer Migration
Intracellular microlasers - or microscopic lasers introduced into the interior of live cells - could perhaps be used to track cancer cells as they move throughout the body. At least, that鈥檚 the hope thanks to a study published in Nature Photonics, which described the study of lasers tracking white blood cells through animals鈥� bodies for a number of days. [ + ]
It's Digital Health Week
This week we are attending the Health Informatics Society of Australia's (HISA) annual conference in Brisbane, HIC2015. [ + ]
Remind Me Again, How Can Companies Patent Breast Cancer Genes?
Luigi Palombi, Murdoch University [ + ]
Nominate Your Colleagues for the ACHS Safety & Quality Awards
Do you know someone who is an advocate for the promotion of quality and safety in healthcare in Australia? Nominations for the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards 2015 ACHS Medal are now open. [ + ]
Asthma Gene Identified
Clinical trials will soon take place in Brisbane to test whether a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis could be useful in treating asthma. This comes after scientists at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute found that a gene previously thought to have an anti-inflammatory effect, or no immune effect at all, is actually more likely to increase inflammation in people with asthma and allergies. [ + ]
MERS Leaves South Korea, Suspected in UK
After more than two months from its first reported case, South Korea is ready to declare itself safe from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). [ + ]
Improved Gastric Banding Device Developed
Current gastric banding devices use elastic in their function in nutritional modulation for bariatrics, ingestible electronics for diagnosis and monitoring, and gastric-retentive dosage forms for prolonged drug delivery. They have to be tough to survive the acid encountered in the stomach, yet flexible so they can be manipulated through the oesophagus and other narrow parts of the digestive system. [ + ]
What You Should Expect From Your GP
Max Kamien, University of Western Australia [ + ]
