A GP guide to urticaria in children
Need to know: Urticaria is a condition characterised by the presence of wheals, angioedema, or both. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the medical…
Tag: Paediatrics
Medical Must-See: Doctors get the sac from child’s internal iliac artery
Iranian surgeons have removed a 4cm x 4cm aneurysmal sac after diagnosing an idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy. The previously…
Trump’s ‘biological truth’ of two sexes and the medical mutilation of children
It is worth running the quote in full, so there is no ambiguity. “Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing…
Doctors allowed to resect seven-year-old’s brain tumour as Jehovah’s Witnesses opt against court fight
Emergency surgery to resect a seven-year-old’s brain tumour will go ahead after the child’s Jehovah’s Witness parents decided not to fight doctors in court over…
Medical Must-See: Toddler’s tiny injury leads to rare fungal infection
A minor eye wound turned into a major infection for a 15-month-old girl from Pakistan, who developed potentially lethal mucormycosis despite nothing to suggest she was…
‘Shaken to my core’: Dr Mike Freelander verges on tears after condemning nurses’ anti-Semitic hate video
Federal MP Dr Mike Freelander has described how a social media video of two nurses saying they would kill Israeli patients “shook me to my…
‘Thank you, I’m a big fan of your work!’: A woman’s emotional reunion with the neonatologist who saved her life
Back in 1995 Dr Umesh Vaidya saved a life that had barely begun. He had been the neonatologist who resuscitated Freyja when she and her…
NHMRC to develop new treatment guidelines for transgender youth
The NHMRC is to develop new national guidelines for transgender youth amid the ongoing debate about the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Announced…
‘Medicine is witchcraft’: Parents who believed God would cure daughter’s diabetes found guilty of manslaughter
All 14 members of a fringe religious group have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old who died after her insulin was withheld.…
Puberty blocker ban: What does the Queensland Govt expect to find in another evidence review?
The reaction to the Queensland Government’s ban on the initiation of both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children and adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria…
