Ep71: Voluntary Assisted Dying—what have we learned?
aIn 2017, Victoria was the first state in Australia to pass voluntary assisted legislation and has been followed by Western Australia, Tasmania and no...
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Pomegranate Health presents compelling stories about medicine and society; how doctors make difficult ethical and clinical decisions, how they can communicate with patients and how health delivery can be made more equitable.
Ep70: Zeroing in on “the renal troponin”
Acute Kidney Injury makes a greater contribution to early mortality than acute myocardial infarction and it's been argued we should consider the ...
Ep69: Gendered Medicine—Funding and Research
This is the third and final part of our series on gendered medicine. We step back and look at the way that health care and research are funded. It’s b...
Ep68: Gendered Medicine—Pain
Gender can be considered a social determinant of health, in the different pressures and expectations it puts on women and men. For example, the taboos...
Ep67: Boosting Public Health in the Indo-Pacific
This is the fourth and final part in our series on Global Health Security. Australia’s Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security was launched in 2017 to...
Ep66: Gendered Medicine—Heart Disease
We traditionally think of cardiovascular disease as a man’s problem, but it’s the leading cause of death for women as well as men in most of the indus...
Ep65: A New Script for Global Public Health
In this episode we present some provocative solutions to problems presented in the previous two stories.We heard about pharmaceutical patents, and how...
Ep64: Big Pharma and the People’s Vaccine
This is part 2 in our series on global public health and focuses on the impact of intellectual property laws on the development and distribution of ph...
Ep63: the WHO’s Biggest Test
During the COVID-19 crisis there has been some criticism of the World Health Organisation as to whether it declared a pandemic soon enough or covered ...
Ep62: Essential Ethics in Adolescent Health
In episode 59 we shared a sampler of the Essential Ethics podcast from the Children's Bioethics Centre, at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbour...