Professor James Hurley

Clinical Professor, Department of Rural Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and clinical physician, Grampians Health

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Colourful picture of fungal spore colonising a macrophage

Health & Medicine

Why antibiotics give you thrush and other microbiome mishaps

Antibiotics cause an imbalance between fungi and bacteria in our microbiome. New ways of understanding this imbalance can help protect against serious disease

Health & Medicine

Is ‘herd immunity’ in intensive care doing more harm than good?

New research suggests an antibiotic treatment commonly used in Intensive Care Units is putting patients at risk by creating ‘herd peril’

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