To take or not to take. That is the question.
Dr Catherine Meehan. McLeod St Medical Cairns To Be or Not to Be Travel vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis. To take or not to take. That is the question.
Going Home To Visit Grandma
Dr Chris Davenport , TMA Boronia It’s Monday morning, another busy day in General Practice filled with the usual interesting patients – for blood pressure reviews, medication repeats, women’s health discussions and children with the latest coughs and colds.
Scuba Diving for the first time in my late 40s – from a desert chick from the Centre of Australia.
Dr Deb Mitchell TMA member in Alice Springs I am wearing close to 40kg of extra weight with all the gear for my first dive (needless to say I am not keen to reveal my baseline weight but let’s just say it’s a lot!!) and as a group we are walking from the car park […]
Uganda – volunteer in health clinic
Kate McGowan RN TravelBugs Adelaide It’s a week into my four week Uganda trip and I find myself in a not-unfamiliar environment. It feels like I’ve been here before: Poverty and lack of resources in the tropics tends to send cities into a familiar decline. It’s warm, humid and hazy, the air is heavy with […]
Solomon Islands – Student Medical Placement
Dr Jo Grey TMA Brisbane Earlier this year, I accepted an invitation to spend two weeks on Guadalcanal Island, part of the Solomon Islands group supervising medical students from Bond University on an elective placement. The students were seeking a doctor to accompany them who would be happy to work alongside and supervise them in […]
Staying safe during an Ebola mission
Dr Saschveen Singh, Capstone Health, Wembley Ebola Staff health: not your average travel medicine story. Since the West African outbreak made international headlines in 2015-2017, Ebola has been shrouded in myth. Many had forgotten its existence. But the recent major outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has put the disease centre-stage again. When […]
Altitude Illness in the Andes
Dr Jason Rajakulendran, TMA Sandringham. A recent holiday to the Andean mountains of Ecuador & Peru highlighted to me the importance of careful preparation for any time spent at altitude. The Andes as the world’s second highest mountain range, allow relatively easy flight access to stunning high-altitude regions and active pursuits. As I climbed above […]
TMA Group Published Research
Members of the Travel Medicine Alliance are committed to best practice travel medicine and to that end, we have a commitment to undertaking and publishing research in the field of travel medicine. Our team includes Dr Luis Furuya Kanamori, Dr Colleen Lau and Dr Deb Mills More information and our list of our published research can […]
Babies, Bali and “I Do”
Dr Julie Burke TMA Yeppoon Destination weddings in Bali for Australians are extremely popular. Young Aussie couples with their love of the great out doors, beach and sand can easily access the many wedding planners and resorts specializing in magical and seemingly less costly venues for tying the knot. More often these couples already have their […]
Antarctica: Icebergs and secret weapon
Dr Cormac Carey, Medical Director, Toowoomba. After sampling the wonderful delights of Buenos Aires we flew South to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. Here, we boarded our expedition vessel RCGS ( Royal Canadian Geographical Society) Resolute, our home for the next nine nights on a calm Friday afternoon. The weather certainly allayed the […]