(1)Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (2)National Practice Group Leader, Medical Law, Slater & Gordon; Adjunct Fellow, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia (3)School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (4)Centre for Health Governance Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School, The...

Correspondence: Mr James Fielding, Communicable Diseases Section, Department of Human Services, Level 17/120 Spencer Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Telephone: +61 3 9637 4872. Facsimile: +61 3 9637 4477. Email: [email protected] Sporadic outbreaks of measles continue to occur throughout Australia that require considerable expenditure of time and resources to control. We report an outbr...

Droughts are a recurrent and natural part of the Australian hydroclimate, with evidence of drought dating back thousands of years. However, our ability to monitor, attribute, forecast and manage drought is exposed as insufficient whenever a drought occurs. This paper summarises what is known about drought hazard, as opposed to the impacts of drought, in Australia and finds that, unlike other hy...

Heat waves are a public health concern in Australia and unprecedented heat waves have been recorded in Adelaide over recent years. The aim of this study was to examine the perception and attitudes towards heat waves in the context of climate change among a group of residents in Adelaide, an Australian city with a temperate climate. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the summer of 2012 amo...

Metropolitan Adelaide, a city of 1.1 million people, occupying a spatial extent of 1826 km 2 at density of a mere 6.1 persons/ha (ABS, 2006), with the release in 2010 of the 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide (30YPGA) (GSA, 2010), is potentially at a pivotal point in its development. The vast spread of metropolitan Adelaide across the Adelaide plains, and into the Adelaide Hills extending approx...

Results of the ARREST AF (Aggressive risk factor reduction study for atrial fibrillation) study were presented by Rajeev K Pathak (Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia) at HRS 2014. The study, winner of HRS’s Eric Prystowsky abstract award in the category of clinical research, demonstrated that patients who underwent aggressi...

s for the 38th Human Genetics Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting Adelaide, South Australia