We are at the start of a 3rd COVID-19 Omicron wave and expect to see a significant rise in cases. Please continue to do the little things: stay home when unwell, test if you have symptoms & stay up to date with your vaccinations. More health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/202…

The Medical Board of Australia is promising to dismiss any trivial complaint against a doctor within six weeks of receiving it under reforms to triage low-risk notifications. bit.ly/3vCr6CV

Mario Kart made a Sydney track. They put a road through the Opera House concert hall and stuck Uluṟu over near Rozelle. (Courtesy of Kotaku)

Could specialists be the key to tackling Australia's climate crisis? 💧John Van Der Kallen believes they may be — not least because the health system is a major factor in carbon emissions. bit.ly/3QeD1PI

Horrifying findings on the impact of a medical career on women's fertility. Half the doctors surveyed said they had experienced pregnancy complications and 38% suffered pregnancy loss.

"Climate change is the most daunting health care crisis we face this century," writes dermatologist Marcus Boos UW Pediatrics BJD. The co-authored editorial on effects of climate change on & beyond skin disease is quoted @the_limbic Geir O'Rourke bit.ly/3LgBdE9

Average forced vital capacity (FVC) in asthmatic children falls significantly on days of bushfire smoke exposure, data from spirometry during the Black Summer of 2019–20 has shown bit.ly/3hpE82r

Wouldn't want to be bitten by a funnel web in the next little while...

JUST IN! Former doctor Mark Hobart, who’s registration was suspended by the Medical Board last year after allegedly handing out fake vax exemptions, has LOST his legal challenge to the Medical Board’s decision bit.ly/3tBCEFf

Interesting treatment of the pitch in Nagpur. The groundstaff watered the entire centre of the surface & only the length areas outside the left-hander’s leg stump & then rolled only the centre, stopping short every time they got to the good length areas at both ends #IndvAus

Content warning: This man’s mother had become a Twitter troll who relentlessly attacked the parents of Madeleine McCann, the girl who disappeared in 2007 at the age of 3 After a journalist told her tweeted were being investigated, she died by suicide theguardian.com/society/2023/m…

Well, well, well 🧐 “It’s within the rules of the game and that’s how it is!” - Bairstow 2014 #Bairstow #Ashes23 Thanks for the heads up Diana Yallop Voted YES. 👏