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Author: Dr Ross Walker

Pill testing

By Dr Ross Walker

Over the festive season, there is usually a lull in medical news and information. Because of yet another death at a music festival recently, the discussion has reemerged about pill testing at these venues. image source: news.com.au Firstly, let me make the point that it is my opinion that any…

5 Point Power Plan to Keep Healthy over the Christmas Break

By Dr Ross Walker

Well, it is that time of the year when the very common burnout sets in and most of our thoughts turn to the Christmas break. Although Christmas should always be a time for rest, reflection and rejuvenation it often becomes a time for excessive partying, overeating, overindulging in other bad…

Alcohol — is it all bad?

By Dr Ross Walker

With Christmas only a few weeks away, we are all told it is the season to be jolly and it is certainly the time for winding down and enjoying the variety of Christmas festivities which typically includes the consumption of alcohol. There have been recent reports suggesting consuming any alcohol…

Here we go again

By Dr Ross Walker

In a recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine there were two original articles and an editorial discussing a large placebo controlled, randomised study of 25,871 people in the United States using what is known as a 2 X 2 factorial design which involved Fish oil, Vitamin D…

Is there a universal blood test for cancer?

By Dr Ross Walker

A few decades back, a diagnosis of cancer, in most cases, was a death sentence. But, for the last few decades, there have been enormous strides in the management of most forms of cancer. The standard treatment up to recently has been extensive surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Improvements in all…