iPad2: harder, faster, leaner, meaner

iPad2: harder, faster, leaner, meaner

So the Steve Jobs’ reality-distortion-field has lifted and through the haze is visible the next-generation iPad.  Did the revelations at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Franscisco, satiate our longing for a new iDevice? What’s in: harder,...
“The worst drug in history”?

“The worst drug in history”?

I was manufactured by Eli Lilly and first approved for release in the 1950’s. I have been used millions of times by millions of patients all over the world. I was withdrawn in the United Kingdom in 2007 because of concerns about increased risk of death in...

2011: the year of the iPad?

Apple has sent out invitations to a special event on March 2nd.  With an image of an iPad behind a peeling calendar date and the teaser “Come and see what 2011 will be the year of.” – a play on the analysts predicting that 2011 would be the year of...

More info on MBS item #55054

The Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) has been hard at work trying to improve anaesthesia items in the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).  However, many of their arguments appear to have fallen on deaf ears at the Department of Health and Ageing (DHA), where...

Disappointment re. #55054

It is very disappointing that the DHA has indicated that they will be withdrawing funding and restricting access to item 55054 (the ‘ultrasound-block’ number) for Anaesthesia.  Watch out for news about this…