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Sleep problems, fatigue and attention difficulties in the weeks after a child's concussion injury could be a sign of reduced brain function and decreased grey matter.

Patients might not be getting the best advice about which treatments do or don't work, according to a recent Australian study. The researchers found professional societies are more likely to call out other health professionals for providing low-value treatments rather than look in their own backyards.

Aboriginal health workers in burn units, and greater cultural competence in clinicians and health services, are urgently needed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander burns patients who have the highest burn injury rates of all Australians.

Eradicating deadly staph using a new breed of antibiotics has revealed promising results in research released by QUT, helping to overcome one of the biggest modern medical challenges.

It's time to stop the endemic financial entanglement with industry that is distorting the production and use of healthcare evidence, causing harm to individuals and waste for health systems, argue an influential group of Australian and international experts in The BMJ. Too many tests, diagnoses, pills and procedures are wasting resources that could be better spent meeting genuine need. 

Queensland researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have shown that 22 different genes help to determine how much sun exposure a person needs to receive before developing melanoma. For people at high genetic risk, sun exposure in childhood is a strong contributing factor while people at low genetic risk develop melanoma only after a lifetime of exposure to sunlight.

Blood glucose and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) screening alone does not improve diabetes case detection and care for patients admitted to hospital from emergency departments (EDs), according to research published this month by the Medical Journal of Australia.

Treatment for children with acute gastroenteritis follows clinical practice guidelines 90% of the time but drops to around 50% adherence for best practice diagnosis and ongoing management of the condition, according to new Australian research.

If you asked people what actually happens when they turn on the lights, get in a lift, or take a photo with their phone, most of them wouldn’t know (or care) about how they work - just as long as it gives you what you need, and it works every time. CKN isn’t all that different. Boil it down and it’s just a work tool that gives you access to clinical information. 

How that information gets there; what’s being done to keep it current and relevant; where the money comes from to pay for it; and who manages the back-end, are all things that the average Queensland Health employee doesn’t need to know about to actually use it. 

Addressing the social determinants of health is ultimately needed for skin infection rates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to be similar to their non-Aboriginal peers, according to the authors of a narrative review published in the MJA.