Public health

Prof Kristine Macartney
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Prof Macartney will explain the safety data on the use of COVID vaccines in pregnant and breastfeeding women. This data has been collected from around the world and how it will be applied in Australia will be explained.

Dr Linda Calabresi
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Prof Huyen Tran
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Prof Tran will bring clinicians up to speed on the important features of this side-effect - where and when these clots occur, the symptoms they produce, when and how these patients should be investigated and how these patients are best managed. Get the answers to the most frequent questions your patients are asking.

A/Prof Vicki Kotsirilos AM
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Air pollution has contributed to more than 3,000 premature deaths per year in Australia, nearly x3 that of deaths from MVA

Prof Mark Taylor
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Healthed
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Dr Linda Calabresi
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Dr Linda Calabresi
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Dr Linda Calabresi
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Dr Julaine Allan
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On February 21 NSW Health issued a warning about methamphetamine and cocaine being contaminated with the dangerous opioid fentanyl. Several people who had taken these illicit stimulant drugs presented to Sydney hospitals with symptoms of opioid overdose, raising the alarm. Drug tests found fentanyl and acetyl-fentanyl had caused the overdoses.

Dr Stephen Bright
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Drinking patterns tend to change as we age. The older we get, the more likely we are to drink on a daily basis. But older adults often perceive that drinking is only a problem if a person appears drunk.

Prof Sam Janes
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We know that quitting smoking is an excellent way to reduce your risk of developing lung cancer. But until now, experts weren’t quite sure why this was the case. Our latest research has uncovered that in people who quit smoking, the body actually replenishes the airways with normal, non-cancerous cells that help protect the lungs, in turn reducing their risk of getting cancer.