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St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?

  • Written by Ian Haines, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, AMREP Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne & Senior Medical Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician, Melbourne Oncology Group, Cabrini Haematology and Oncology Centre, Wattletree Road, M
imageSome cancer patients at St Vincent's hospital were treated with off-protocol doses of a chemotherapy drug.Alastair Gilfillan/Flickr, CC BY

The New South Wales government this week released the final report of its investigation into chemotherapy “underdosing” of patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer in a Sydney hospital.

The...

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State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling

  • Written by Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

The State of the Climate in 2015 report, led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was released yesterday. Unfortunately, it paints a grim picture of the world’s climate last year.

For a second consecutive year the globe experienced its hottest year on record, beating the 2014 record by more than 0.1℃. From May 2015...

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Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses

  • Written by Peter Noonan, Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University
imageStudents pay between $6,256 and $10,440 for a university degree, depending on which course they choose to study.from www.shutterstock.com

The issue of how universities are funded across their different courses has been an ongoing but unresolved debate over the past decade.

It has again come to the fore as the Commonwealth government considers...

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Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others

  • Written by Adrian Beaumont, PhD Student, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

Today and yesterday, the button to distribute preferences was pressed in Victoria, Queensland and NSW. In Victoria, 5 Coalition, 4 Labor, 2 Greens and 1 Derryn Hinch were elected, as expected. In Queensland, One Nation surprisingly won a second seat at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, and the winners are 5 Coalition, 4 Labor, 2 One Nation...

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  1. Ethics and writing
  2. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  3. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  4. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
  5. Should students pay different fees for university courses?
  6. Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
  7. Games and gambling: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
  8. WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
  9. Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised
  10. What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?
  11. Olympic medal forecasting: it's easier to predict results than you might think
  12. A competitive superannuation system: will efficiency gains follow?
  13. Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans
  14. The solution to Australia's gas crisis is not more gas
  15. Baz’s Bronx: Get Down or Let Down?
  16. Rethinking youth justice: there are alternatives to juvenile detention
  17. There's work (and life) outside of universities for PhD graduates
  18. Reimagining NSW: tackling education inequality with early intervention and better research
  19. Future teachers improving in literacy and numeracy: Birmingham
  20. How old is too old for a safe pregnancy?
  21. Former UK foreign secretary says Rudd was 'qualified' to be UN candidate
  22. Weekly Dose: sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
  23. NAPLAN results don't tell the full story behind Australia's lack of education progress
  24. Zika, or dengue and Chikungunya: what should you be worried about at the Rio Olympics?
  25. Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut
  26. PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency
  27. The traditionalists are restless, so why don't they have a party of their own in Australia?
  28. Mobile payments and tap and go might not mean the end for tellers
  29. Making waves: the tsunami risk in Australia
  30. Amnesty-Human Rights Watch investigation reports medical neglect and assaults on Nauru
  31. Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant
  32. Why executions in Indonesia must stop
  33. Jihad Selfie: listening to 'the other side' in documentary film
  34. Ghost-hunting: will the census reveal the true scale of homelessness in Australia?
  35. Business Briefing: Abenomics fails to address Japan's true woes
  36. Is the concept of 'helicopter money' set for a resurgence?
  37. Reimagining NSW: Five ways to future-proof NSW’s innovation ecosystem
  38. Does not compute: Australia is still miles behind in recycling electronic products
  39. Reimagining NSW: going beyond 'wilderness' and finding fresh ways to relate to our environment
  40. The hidden curriculum in surgery says it's not for women
  41. The land we play on: equality doesn’t mean justice
  42. The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
  43. In praise of the Sirius building, a ruined remnant of idealistic times
  44. Let forensic science help prevent a crime or a disaster
  45. Dhaka café attack: don't blame private education for radicalisation in Bangladesh
  46. Politics podcast: Tom Calma says Nigel Scullion should go
  47. Economists react: RBA cuts rates to 1.5%
  48. The great movie scenes: Hitchcock's Vertigo
  49. Family First's Bob Day wins last SA Senate seat in shock result
  50. One in five police officers are at risk of PTSD – here's how we need to respond

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