A pathogenic clade of H5N1 avian flu has been tearing around the globe causing significant mortality in sea birds and mammals. Australia and New Zealand were the last holdouts until it was detected over June and July. While risk to humans from is currently negligible, there is great concern for poultry, livestock and native animals.

Over 10% of adult patients are marked in the record as being allergic to penicillins but the majority of these labels are applied inaccurately or have become outdated over time. PEN-FAST is a decision tool that helps identify patients safe for direct oral challenge and delabelling.

There are red flags for driving fitness in many specialty areas but it can be hard for clinicians to challenge a patient’s freedom to drive

Over three decades, HIV infection has gone from fatal diagnosis, to being manageable with lifelong anti-retroviral therapy. Access to prophylactic treatment has also made a huge impact on rates of transmission although barriers still remain to equitable access.

MAFLD is a "canary in the coal mine" for metabolic health and every physician should be able to recognise it. Listen for the fundamental diagnostic criteria and the latest management approach.

Adverse drug events cause about 1-3% per cent of admissions to public hospitals. They have become more frequent over the decades as older people are prescribed multiple guideline-recommended drug combinations.

There are thousands of new cases of syphilis every year in Australia with a dazzling array of presentations. Today’s podcast will expand your library of differential diagnoses and give you confidence to go down the pathway of testing, treatment and contact tracing.

Contagious Conversations is a new series brought to you by the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases. In this debut episode we hear about declining rates of participation in Australia’s National Immunisation Program and how health professionals can reinspire confidence in vaccines among parents of young children.

This <<REWIND>> of the 2017 episode “Genomics for the Generalist” is a good primer on fundamental concepts and everyday challenges for the physician advising a patient. The expert guests include a genetic pathologist, a clinical geneticist, a genetic counsellor and a medical oncologist.

While Australia’s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most effective in the world it caused unintended social harms and lingering resentment in some parts of the community. In the second of two episodes we ask whether there even is a scientific answer to the cost-benefit calculus around lockdowns and school closures.