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Dietary salt substitutes lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death from all causes and cardiovascular disease, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the journal Heart.

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, in partnership with The George Institute for Global Health have developed a national Sepsis Clinical Care Standard to improve the delivery of sepsis care in Australia.

The largest ever randomised controlled trial of one of the commonest immune mediated diseases affecting the kidney, IgA nephropathy, has found that treatment with methylprednisolone - a cheap, widely used corticosteroid drug - halves the risk of losing kidney function and kidney failure, and that this can be effectively achieved with fewer side effects if a reduced dose is used.