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Weekly Dose: Lipitor, the highest-selling drug of all time

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageLipitor is widely prescribed for cholesterol, but incorrect negative reports have seen its use decline slightly in Australia. from www.shutterstock.com.au

This is the first article in our new ongoing series Weekly Dose, running every Wednesday. Articles will profile a different drug each week: how it works, what it’s used for, and other...

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Politics podcast: Ricky Muir's fight to stay in the Senate

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The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party’s Ricky Muir this week made an unsuccessful last roll of the dice to try to delay the government’s Senate voting reform legislation. The bill will prevent almost all “micro” players being elected to the Senate, and facilitate the government driving out most of the current bunch if it...

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  1. Gender neutral policies are a myth: why we need a women's budget
  2. Transport outlook: larger companies will survive global economic downturn and slowdown in mining
  3. From backflips to power potato peeling: why videos go viral
  4. What makes us conscious?
  5. How much?! Seeing private specialists often costs more than you bargained for
  6. Antibiotics for colds, x-rays for bronchitis, internal exams with pap tests – the latest list of tests to question
  7. Droughts and flooding rains: it takes three oceans to explain Australia's wild 21st-century weather
  8. Rise and fall: social collapse linked to sea level in the Pacific
  9. Hot cities: the ‘smart’ response to urban heat threats
  10. Explainer: how is literacy taught in schools?
  11. Morrison talks down personal income tax cuts
  12. Love, Serendipity and Algorithms
  13. Labor and Greens would try to frustrate double-dissolution planning
  14. WA Labor avoids own goal, but what damage has Smith's tilt at the leadership done?
  15. Explainer: what is Dravet syndrome and how can it be managed?
  16. Shane Warne Foundation not alone in charity spending ambiguity
  17. Gun control in America by the right (and wrong) numbers
  18. The off-topic Conversation #84
  19. Full response from the International Transport Workers' Federation and Maritime Union of Australia
  20. Bill threatens to remove last safety net for refugees fleeing death, torture and persecution
  21. The problems with Australia's hospitals – and how they can be fixed
  22. Infographic: a snapshot of hospitals in Australia
  23. From triage to discharge: a user's guide to navigating hospitals
  24. Insurance outlook: in an era of increasing competition technology will make the difference
  25. EcoCheck: Australia's Southwest jarrah forests have lost their iconic giants
  26. Orang-utans play video games too, and it can enrich their lives in the zoo
  27. Memo to our latest cities minister: here's what needs to be done
  28. Here’s looking at: ‘Whistler’s Mother’
  29. Full response from a spokesman for Michaelia Cash and a spokeswoman for Penny Wong
  30. FactCheck Q A: can foreign seafarers be paid $2 an hour to work in Australian waters, under laws passed by Labor?
  31. Health Check: three reasons why sleep is important for your health
  32. Uberbanking, with limits
  33. Not so grassroots: how the snowflake model is transforming political campaigns
  34. Explainer: Screenrights and the thorny question of writers' royalties
  35. Expert panel: the state of the National Broadband Network
  36. Coalition gains in Ipsos despite Turnbull's ratings slump
  37. Banking outlook: threats from technology, burst of housing bubble, end of mining boom
  38. What might a 'Brexit' mean for the Anglosphere – and Australia?
  39. Tipping point: how we predict when Antarctica's melting ice sheets will flood the seas
  40. Pi and its part of the most beautiful formula in mathematics
  41. Taking a break from your diet helps long-term weight loss
  42. True crime interrogates toxic masculinity, at last
  43. Australian teachers get fewer training days than in other countries and turn to online courses for support
  44. Keeping Christopher Contented
  45. Coalition holds solid lead in Ipsos-Fairfax poll but Turnbull slips
  46. Taking her medicine: Maria Sharapova grand slammed
  47. Brian Greene yes but string theory no
  48. The good, the bad and the ugly: research funding flows to big and beautiful mammals in Australia
  49. How can we understand the origins of Islamic State?
  50. CommInsure – You pays your money and you takes your chance

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