Obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with an increased risk of sleep-related motor vehicle accidents. Seven recent legal cases of fatal motor vehicle accidents on NSW roads are presented, where the driver who caused the accident was suffering from an unrecognised or under-treated sleep disorder. The legal outcomes in these cases were variable: some of the drivers have been acquitted and other...

a prior history of healthy lifestyle may be misleading when we consider associated risk factors for developing a serious and debilitating condition such as multiple sclerosis under extreme stress. the author reports a case of a woman who lived a healthy life and yet experienced an unexpected event leading to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. the patient’s condition was predominantly provoked...

Cryptococcal meningitis is a life-threatening condition caused by an invasive, opportunistic, encapsulated saprophytic fungus, either Cryptococcus neoformans or gattii most often in immunocompromised patients, especially those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Overwhelming invasive infection of immunocompetent patients rather uncommon, and diagnosis challenging due to more indolent cours...

BACKGROUND Road trauma represents a high proportion of injury-related emergency department presentations. Narrative text recorded in the emergency department could provide useful information to monitor road trauma and to identify crash and injury risk factors by age group. OBJECTIVE To examine the Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System (PHREDSS) to identify road user...

The government has regulated the pattern of identification and registration motor vehicle ownership administration imposition taxes, including compulsory donations traffic accident funds through One Roof Motor Vehicle Administration System, abbreviated as SAMSAT. performance service operations at SAMSAT office in West Java Province not reached optimal stage. This is allegedly related to impleme...