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Ben Goldacre and evidence-based medicine

Publication bias is a very big problem particularly in the area of drug trials. This is a link to an interview with Dr Ben Goldacre who wants to highlight the issues associated with clinical trials with negative outcomes remaining unpublished.

Welcome to UQ Ipswich Campus 2012

Welcome to Ipswich Campus 2012!! Wow this year has already been better than last year. I thought that today I would discuss rules. I am inspired to do so by Wikipedia's decision to shut down their website for a day as a protest against anti-piracy laws due to pass through the US legislature shortly, it seems, to some effect. I have an issue with a particular rule and would like to elicit the same sort of effect. I have long wanted on our campus to hold a chilli/curry cook off. However, I believe, it is in breach of health regulations. Now let's look at rules.

eLearning @ NPS

InfoRx for Australian Health Professionals portal

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The "Top 5" Lists in Primary Care

The Good Stewardship Working G. The "Top 5" Lists in Primary Care: Meeting the Responsibility of Professionalism. Archives of Internal Medicine on the Internet. 2011 Date: Available from: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/archinternmed.2011.231v1?rss=1

Green is good, skip the red

Eat less red meat, eat more fibre, skip processed meats - it's really that simple if you want to lower your risk of bowel cancer. That's the message from the Continuous Update Project in their latest (2011) report entitled Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective.