Prof Kate Curtis

As a paediatrician, I urge Australians to be guided by scientific evidence when making decisions on medications | Mike Freelander Claims of a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism have been repeatedly disproven – despite what the US administration suggests I have treated more than 200,000 patients in almost 40 years of practising medicine. Autism is a complex disorder which can present in many different ways and in a spectrum of severity. Causation is a very important consideration and, as a paediatrician, I know that parents often ask why their child has autism. Particularly in the severe end of the autism spectrum, genetic disorders can present with autistic features; for example Angelman syndrome, Smith-Magenis syndrome, Williams syndrome and many others. However, for the majority of the children who are diagnosed with autism, no cause is found. We also know that the number of children diagnosed with autism in the developed world is increasing. There are many reasons for this, not least that we are better at diagnosing it. However, in my work I often heard the question “why is my child autistic?” Continue reading...

As a paediatrician, I urge Australians to be guided by scientific evidence when making decisions on medications | Mike Freelander

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

After work swim #mollymook

👩‍🍳🧁🍪 scones Aussie style

The hug of the Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Luxembourg.
That's probably one of the nicest things you'll see today.

More than 51,400 people aged 60 and over endured waits of 12 hours or more in Scotland’s Emergency Departments last year – new analysis from RCEM reveals.

That’s 14,407 more patients than 2023.

Read more from RCEM, @gerisoc.bsky.social ‬and @rcpedin.bsky.social here: rcem.ac.uk/news/shockin...

2.5yrs in the making, 2000+ hrs of prep and HIRAID at Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital is live!

Over 5 days of teaching, Chiangrai has Thailand’s 1st HIRAID trained nurses, including 13 instructors!

A big thankyou to Poom and Koi for leading, MFU and the Thai government for support.
#HIRAID

Back home with my lapdog #dogs @aussie52.bsky.social @dogs.bsky.social

Calm before the storm
#mollymook @shoalhaven.bsky.social

@hiraid.bsky.social
Oh Canada🍁
We had the honour of being invited to speak about HIRAID at the Canadian National Emergency Nurses Association conference in Saskatoon.

Despite catastrophic bushfires in northern Saskatchewan, hundreds of emergency nurses from across Canada attended

Bred before 1909 in Italy, Variegata di Bologna produces large, cupped, 5” roses with 60+ petals in each blossom in a creamy white with neatly striped purple-crimson lines.

A swallowtail butterfly feeding on a rose milkweed flower, with wings open.

This swallowtail butterfly is feeding on a rose milkweed flower. Loved by so many polinators, milkweed isn't just for Monarchs! 😁🦋

#butterfly #butterflies
#nature #naturephotography #photography
#macro #macrophotography
#swallowtail #swallowtails
#milkweed #monarch

The world is coming to Hamburg. Are you?

From June 9–13, 2026, the global emergency medicine community gathers for a celebration of science, connection, and courage.

Join us at ICEM 2026!

www.icem2026.com

#wetogetherforward #emergencymedicine #FacharztNotfallmedizinJetzt #icem2026

My cousin had an arrest in recovery post cardioversion recently

He was resuscitated and is fine

His spouse’s response was to:

1. Do a CPR course
2. Buy a defibrillator
3. Make sure the neighbours (they live rurally) knew about and could access the defibrillator

When stuff happens, do +ve stuff

Spring
#fungi #québec

And here are some from my father who has over 150 native Australian dye extractions! #bsky.art 🧶
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And here are some from my father who has over 150 native Australian dye extractions! #bsky.art
spinoffmagazine.com/color-play-w...

Limapontiidae sp.

Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭

#SlugSaturday #SacoglossanSaturday #SeaSlug #MarineLife

sister vivien bullwinkel would be proud vwma.org.au/explore/peop... #nursing

EMCrit Ghali Grills 003 - Further Disambiguating "PEA" We dive DEEP into PEA, when to stop CPR, how to know when you have adequate perfusion after ROSC, and a bunch more!!!

EMCrit Ghali Grills 003 - Further Disambiguating "PEA"
We dive DEEP into PEA, when to stop CPR, how to know when you have adequate perfusion after ROSC, and a bunch more!!!
[#FOAMed] @EM_RESUS
emcrit.org/esk1

Yet more evidence that the kids are, in fact, alright

My photo shows an ancient wind intrument dated to the Upper Paleolithic period about 40,000 years ago. It is made from the radius bone of a swan (the thinner of the two long bones in a bird's wing). There are three finger holes. This wind instrument is usually referred to as a ‘flute’. It is incomplete and has been carefully reconstructed from fragments. Dimensions: “The maximum preserved length of flute‭ is ‬126.5‭ ‬mm, the possible length compared to the total length of a swans radius could have been 180‭ ‬to‭ ‬200‭ ‬mm. The asymmetrical diameter of the flute is 10.3‭ ‬x‭ ‬9.1‭ ‬mm”. (Info taken from ‘The Geissenkloesterle Flute - Discovery, Experiments, Reconstruction’ by Susanne Münzel/Friedrich Seeberger/Wulf Hein)

Music bringing people together for millennia! 🪈 🎶

About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this flute was made from a swan’s wing bone. It is one of the World’s oldest known musical instruments!

Geißenklösterle cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 me

#Archaeology

Mrs. Perry Oriental Poppy

Portrait of a Costa’s hummingbird purple gorget

There’s no such thing as being TOO close to a hummingbird…

Ever 📷🪶

Meanwhile, in Canada…

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#bloomscrolling #nature #gardeningfeed #flowers #photography #blueskymonday #eastcoastkin #spring

Some more snaps of the talented emergency nurse leaders of beautiful Tasmania!
#nursing #emergencynursing #Tasmania #HIRAID #QualityandSafety

Music track: Summer Time by Ethan Sturock
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