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I’ve been to two funerals this week. They were both for men in their eighties who grew up in separate country towns on the divine South Coast of NSW. Neither man knew each other and the connection between them for...

A recent spate of medi-cosmetic disasters, involving injectable products (eg. the death of Jean Huang in September) and horrific laser outcomes, has drawn nationwide attention to the need for greater policing of these procedures, something the medical community has been...

If we had a dollar for every time we get asked at Bravura “What machine should I buy” we would be living our dream life on a beach somewhere. Every day we receive unsolicited advertising that is trying to sell...

Update on ARPANSA cosmetic laser guidance documents The ARPANSA Radiation Health Committee's (RHC) IPL Working Group reported back in June and is progressing a guidance document on the use of lasers and IPL in cosmetic medicine which is likely to...

Have you seen the sunscreens from Science Skincare yet? Link here.

This case will hit home for health professionals! Why? Because it happened to a 56 year old nurse in Victoria. In the current edition of the Medical Journal of Australia authors (2017) Bala, Pan and Nixon report on a case...

Stuff happens because: 1.    User is untrained. This is pretty easy to prevent though isn’t it? We are constantly gobsmacked at how little some people value their own and their staff’s education. For a thousand bucks of educational investment you can...