What means did the Grim Reaper employ for Australians in 2022?
Death (and taxes) come to us all. But what returns us to our ultimate maker is always a source of interest. This week saw the…
Tag: Coronavirus
Safe to stop anticoagulants three months after VTE linked to COVID-19, study suggests
Long-term anticoagulation may be unnecessary in patients with COVID-19-associated VTE, with doctors reporting low rates of recurrence after stopping therapy. Their study of 1100 adults…
June edition: quick guide to Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items
AusDoc’s telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items Quick Guide for June is now available. Use this quick reference day-to-day as a practical prompt for telehealth and COVID-19…
It felt like 19th century medicine — and I liked it
Recently, I had a day where I actually felt like I was practising medicine. Not that day-to-day general practice isn’t medicine, it’s just that the…
GP practice error in recording a child’s weight may have resulted in his death 17 years later: UK coroner
Alex Reid died in 2021 from COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. It was just six weeks after his second dose of…
Long-term loss of smell, but not taste, common after COVID-19: study
Olfactory dysfunction, especially for smell, is more common in individuals with prior COVID-19 versus individuals with no history of infection, with deficits varying by SARS-CoV-2…
AstraZeneca makes ‘business decision’ to pull COVID-19 vaccine from Australia and EU
The TGA has withdrawn approval for COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria on the request of its sponsor, AstraZeneca. It finally closes a complex and controversial chapter in…
‘Not an anti-vax manifesto’: Shock as COVID-19 vax sceptics latch onto AJGP article
Politicians and bloggers opposed to COVID-19 vaccines are claiming an article in the RACGP’s house journal has exposed the ‘truth’ about vaccines. However, author Emeritus…
Your May Quick Guide to telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items
AusDoc’s May telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items Quick Guide is now available. For detailed descriptors and details, go to mbsonline.gov.au. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering…
‘Cause for optimism’: Most long COVID patients have immunological recovery in two years
Nearly two-thirds of patients with long COVID can expect full immunological recovery within two years, according to “optimistic” results from an Australian study. Doctors from…
