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    Australia’s first infant RSV immunisation program linked to 57% drop in hospitalisations

    May 29, 2025

    Widespread use of nirsevimab in infants may reduce RSV-related hospitalisations by more than half, suggests a real-world study published in the Medical Journal of Australia.…

    ‘Infuriating and dangerous’: Psychiatrist tries and fails to speak with his patients’ medicinal cannabis prescribers

    May 29, 2025

    Medicinal cannabis prescribers are failing to acknowledge concerned correspondence from patients’ regular doctors, a leading psychiatrist says. Professor Richard Harvey has routinely written to the doctors prescribing…

    Dr Jonathan 'Casey' Going.

    GP builds AI that suggests the Medicare items that boost billings

    May 29, 2025

    A GP has built an AI scribe that suggests Medicare items for GPs to claim in real time as it drafts medical notes based on…

    GP registrars offered $40,000 to train in Queensland

    May 28, 2025

    Almost 600 GP registrars can get a one-off $40,000 payment this year to lessen the financial pain of leaving the hospital system, the Queensland Government…

    Dr Bruce Willett.

    Universal bulk-billing incentive risks ‘tearing GP practices apart’

    May 28, 2025

    Payments tied to practice-wide universal bulk-billing risk setting GPs “at one another’s throats”, a prominent GP warns. The upcoming 12.5% loading payment if GPs at…

    Do doctors really withdraw life support prematurely for patients with brain injuries?

    May 28, 2025

    Medicine is about life and death, a fact starkest when doctors advise families to end life support for a loved one. These decisions are routine…

    ‘I’m a healer, not a dealer!’: GP on her dark times working for a medicinal cannabis telehealth clinic

    May 27, 2025

    Revelations that AHPRA knows of eight doctors who have collectively written 80,000 scripts for category 5 THC medicinal cannabis once again raise the obvious question.…

    The news today? Rheumatologist jailed for fake diagnoses, Healthscope in receivership and the endocrinologist who saved a million brains

    May 27, 2025

    Welcome to your bite-sized wrap-up. Below, we provide news summaries of what is going on in medicine, with links to the articles, opinions, studies and…

    Dr Sanjay Kuikel.

    ‘Is continuing here safe?’: Young doctor’s shock at finding squatters in his family home

    May 27, 2025

    “Hi, my name is Sanjay Kuikel, and I’m a junior doctor working in regional Victoria, Australia. I’ve dedicated my career to caring for others —…

    Are pharmacists prioritising treating UTIs without antibiotics? Officials don’t seem to know

    May 27, 2025

    The Victorian Government says easy access and patient satisfaction are reasons it is entrenching pharmacy prescribing for UTIs and contraceptives. However, it has not revealed…

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