Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Women view key sexual behaviours as the trigger for the onset and recurrence of bacterial vaginosis
Published 2017-03-01Background Bacterial vaginosis (BV) affects a third of women of reproductive age in the US and there is increasing evidence to suggest it may be sexually transmitted. This study aimed to extend and validate the findings ...Open AccessArticle -
Clinical Ethics Support in Contemporary Health Care
Published 2016-01-01This chapter concerns current initiatives to create and maintain specialized services to help respond to ethical issues that arise in the practice of health care. These initiatives, the obstacles they face, and the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Deadly Business of an Unregulated Global Stem Cell Industry
Published 2017-03-29In 2016, the Office of the State Coroner of New South Wales released its report into the death of an Australian woman, Sheila Drysdale, who had died from complications of an autologous stem cell procedure at a Sydney clinic. ...Open AccessArticle -
Overdiagnosis: an important issue that demands rigour and precision: Comment on Medicalisation and overdiagnosis: what society does to medicine.
Published 2017-02-25Van Dijk and colleagues present three cases to illustrate and discuss the relationship between medicalisation and overdiagnosis. In this commentary, I consider each of the case studies in turn, and in doing so emphasise ...Open AccessArticle -
Faster access to new drugs doesn’t always mean better treatment
Published 2017-03-15US President Donald Trump recently chose an adviser to a large pharmaceutical company to lead the country’s drug regulation agency. Scott Gottlieb – who reportedly sits on the boards of several small drug companies and is ...Open AccessArticle