A GP guide to reducing rabies risk
Need to know: How to best advise travellers on rabies risk was a hot topic at the 2024 Southern Cross Travel Medicine Conference, held in…
Tag: Vaccination
GP registrar who shouted anti-COVID-19 vax tirade at AMA conference has suspension overturned
A GP registrar suspended after shouting at an AMA conference that COVID-19 vaccines were killing patients is free to return to medical practice following a…
An anti-vax conspiracy theorist could become Trump’s health tsar — what it means for Aussie doctors
I recently had the opportunity to attend the annual congress of the US Center for Inquiry – an organisation promoting science and reason, and countering…
Patients get green light to administer their own flu vaccines
Millions of patients in the US have been given the green light to administer their own flu vaccination via a nasal spray. It is one…
20% of eligible patients receive shingles vaccine within six months of NIP change
Monthly shingles vaccinations have soared from 30,000 to 200,000 since the National Immunisation Program replaced the live-attenuated Zostavax with recombinant vaccine Shingrix, data show. Until…
Tenfold differences in vax rates between neighbouring GP practices: Grattan Institute
Massive differences in vaccination rates at GP practices just a few kilometres apart has prompted calls for a funding overhaul. A Grattan Institute report has…
Would you spend 25 years trying to make a TB vaccine? Professor Warwick Britton has
Emeritus Professor Warwick Britton has spent a quarter of a century trying to make an inhaled TB vaccine work. So you may be unsurprised to…
I’m tired of dealing with the lunatic conspiracies of some patients
My daughter was feeling defeated recently after realising that her four-year-old son, who came home from kindergarten talking about nothing but farts and poo, was…
Maternal RSV vax gets green light for NIP listing
Pregnant women could soon have subsidised access to the bivalent respiratory syncytial virus vaccine Abrysvo, just two months after it was approved by the TGA.…
Cell-based flu vaccine more protective than egg-based equivalent, new data show
The results have one expert callilng for a preferential recommendation for the broader population
