New disability parking scheme burdens GPs | 6minutes

by | Apr 4, 2011 | General

via 6minutes.com.au New National Disability Parking Permits will be rolled out this month. More paperwork for GPs – AND – the criteria has changed. According to 6minutes, now crutches / sore knees / heart failure does not get a guernsey. Only those who...

Announcing: What I Learnt Today – Junior Edition

by | Apr 3, 2011 | General

The Nintendo 3DS was released this week. I know this because I subscribe to “What I Learnt Today – Junior Edition” at http://wiltjunior.com Wiltjunior – all the news that Millie thinks is fit to print. If you know any junior reporters who would...

Sending a Reminder to Your Future Self – MsgMe.at

by | Apr 3, 2011 | General

 Awesome Thing #282 of 1000awesomethings was ‘Sending yourself emails to do stuff in the future’. As someone who may have forgotten an important date two years in a row, sending an email to a future me seems like a good plan. MsgMe.at is a web service...

BMJ: Prostate Cancer Screening – 20 years data

by | Apr 1, 2011 | General

from BMJ 2011; 342:d1539AbstractObjective To assess whether screening for prostate cancer reduces prostate cancer specific mortality.Design Population based randomised controlled trial.Setting Department of Urology, Norrköping, and the...