Three standout risk factors for stroke severity identified: study
AF, hypertension and smoking are the standout precursors for severe strokes compared with mild or moderate strokes, neurologists say. The case-control INTERSTROKE study involved data…
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Complaints against doctors up 13% in a year: AHPRA
Complaints about doctors reached an all-time high of 11,207 last financial year, a 12.8% increase from the previous 12 months, AHPRA’s annual report has revealed.…
Benign antibiotic creating ‘almost untreatable superbug’ via cross-resistance
Prophylactic use of the antibiotic rifaximin is fuelling a dangerous multidrug-resistant pathogen, Australian scientists say. The team says rifaximin causes cross-resistance to the unrelated antibiotic…
Doctor rejects being a hospital specialist to be a GP for homeless patients
As a youngster in Perth’s middle-class western suburbs, Dr Andrew Davies wanted to be “some kind of professor of medicine”. “My mother was an obstetrician…
Govt ad blitz to promote bulk-billing and urgent care clinics
The Federal Government is funding an advertising blitz that encourages patients to search for bulk-billing GP clinics. A 30-second TV advertisement is telling patients that…
What’s behind this year’s historic pertussis outbreak?
A record-breaking 42,428 pertussis cases have been notified this year compared with the previous high of about 39,000 in 2011 and a mere 2454 cases…
From foster care and med school rejection to intern: Dr Taylor Glover’s story
Dr Taylor Glover was 11 when her home life fell apart. “Growing up, there was drug abuse, alcohol abuse and violence,” she says. × Welcome…
‘World-leading’: RSV vaccine free for pregnant women from 2025
Pregnant women can access respiratory syncytial virus vaccination under the National Immunisation Program starting next winter, the Federal Government has announced. Single-dose respiratory syncytial virus…
Paperwork headaches with $300 aged care incentive mean GPs ‘paid less to do more’
Fewer than a third of eligible patients are registered for the new aged care incentive, with GPs blaming the admin burden for undermining enrolment. Services…
NT follows Queensland with massive pharmacist S4 prescribing trial
NT pharmacists will treat 23 conditions — including school sores, otitis media, asthma and COPD — in another major pharmacist prescribing pilot. The recently elected…
