HEALTH CARE BRIEF: Venous thromboembolism (VTE)
With
Dr Pecky (Upeksha) De Silva
Vascular Surgeon & Endovascular Surgeon
Neroli Manning, Managing Director
Cardinal Health – Australia & New Zealand
HEALTH CARE BRIEF
Filmed in Sydney | March 2026
Incidence rates, symptoms, treatment, research & innovation
Thanks to Australian & New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgery (ANZSVS)
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Empowering underprivileged communities with sustainable health
Dr Gaj Panagoda, CEO of Xstitch Health, has a diverse medical background and is working to improve health systems for underprivileged communities. In the Australian Health Journal’s People In Health Care series, he talks about the changes needed in community-based care using a project based approach,
According to Dr Panagoda, there is a need for a shift towards community-based care and collaboration with stakeholders in the healthcare system, and the potential to create a new kind of socially conscious, inspired, community-informed medical specialist is the future of medical specialty care.
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Physiotherapy approach to jaw & facial pain ties with dental expertise
Darron Goralsky is the Founder, CEO and Clinical Director of Melbourne TMJ & Facial Pain Centre, one of Australia’s leading multidisciplinary clinics dedicated to the assessment and management of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and craniofacial pain.
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In development, age specific clinical practice guidelines for early onset bowel cancer
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has agreed to consider for approval the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Early Diagnosis and Management of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer (EOCRC), to be developed by Bowel Cancer Australia in collaboration with the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration (ALEC), and funded by Bowel Cancer Australia. ALEC is led by Cochrane Australia and based in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
