When nasal surgery left Adelaide nurse David Cranston fighting a drug-resistant infection, traditional treatments offered little relief. Struggling to breathe and spending hundreds of dollars a week to manage his symptoms, he turned to bacteriophage therapy, a century-old approach now being revived as a potential weapon against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

By Associate Professor Daniel Thomas

Daniel Thomas is a clinical haematologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and cancer scientist who develops new drugs for the treatment of rare and hard-to-treat cancers. As Program Director of Blood Cancers at SAHMRI, he leads a creative and innovative cancer research laboratory.

Last week was Health Information Management week! To celebrate the critical role health information managers (HIMs) play in healthcare, the AusHealth Clinical Coding team hosted a lunch on Tuesday.

Entries for the AusHealth CureCell Awards have nearly doubled this year, with 65 PhD students applying from 13 national institutions in five states.

A new system called CCCIS integrates SA Health’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR) with a state-of-the-art AI solution. It could not only relieve pressure on overworked clinicians, it could give them a tool that will be the envy of the world. And the crazy thing? This new system perfectly mirrors the old bedside chart…

What do platypus venom, GLP-1 hormones, and mice at ‘fat camp’ have in common?

They’re all part of Platypep — a research project that’s building on platypus venom in a bid to create an ‘Australian Ozempic’.