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Splitting Up Asthma. Genotypes, Phenotypes, and Endotypes. Whew!

May 4, 2013 by


Filed Under: Allergy & Asthma Info, Asthma, Diseases and Research

As The Worm Turns

May 4, 2013 by

[View the story "As The Worm Turns - Parasites and Your Immune System" on Storify]

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Filed Under: AllergyNet Australia, Diseases and Research

HPV Vaccination: Q&A with Dr Julia Brotherton

April 15, 2013 by

We are pleased that Dr Julia Brotherton has taken the time to answer our questions on HPV vaccination. Dr Julia Brotherton is Medical Director of Australia’s National HPV Vaccination Program Register Dr Brotherton is a member of the HPV Implementation Working Group and is currently undertaking a PhD on HPV vaccination in Australia. For the past eight [...]

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Filed Under: AllergyNet Australia, Diseases and Research

Ginsberg Will Howl The Recipe For Heaven

January 26, 2013 by

“But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance: They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in fierce flames consuming, In chains of iron and in dungeons circled with ceaseless fires, In pits and dens and shades of death, in shapes of torment and woe” William Blake wrote as though he experienced [...]

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Filed Under: Art, EvenFourLines, Literature, Poetry, Psychiatry

If It Were Not For Reality

January 24, 2013 by

When Gary Larson retired in 1995, the world became a poorer place. Everyone has their favourite cartoon. Mine is the look-alike Freudian psychiatrist carefully writing in his imposing notebook while a clearly disturbed patient on the couch talks and talks and talks. If you look carefully at the psychiatrist’s notebook, he has written “Just Plain [...]

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Filed Under: EvenFourLines, Inner Strength, Psychiatry

A Friend Who Would Understand Me

January 2, 2013 by

Anton Chekhov was 38 years old when he wrote “A Case History”. He was already an experienced doctor and evocative writer, and some of his best short stories, including this one, effortlessly combined elements of both medicine and human nature. The dismal grey factory town in “A Case History”,  to which a doctor is summoned, [...]

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Filed Under: AllergyNet Australia, EvenFourLines, Literature, Love, The Practice of Medicine

You CAN enjoy Twitter without tweeting

November 4, 2012 by

This tweet recently crossed my timeline: “If you don’t engage, there is no point having followers. Agree?” No. I don’t agree Why? Because a comment like that immediately disenfranchises the 40% of those on Twitter who never tweet. These are the same people that go to public meetings and never ask questions. This is acceptable [...]

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Filed Under: AllergyNet Australia, Social Media in Medicine
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