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For decades, those with medical aspirations have been required to demonstrate their abilities to rotate black dots and other miscellaneous geometric shapes with their minds.…
Every retracted study may influence the results of three systematic reviews, each of which subsequently infects three clinical practice guidelines, researchers warn. Writing in The…
Women with psoriasis should be proactively screened for genital symptoms, dermatologists suggest, after a study found an 11-year lag between symptom onset and diagnosis of…
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…
“We believe it is best for the patients, staff and the Northern Beaches community that [the hospital] is returned to NSW Health if that is the government’s…
The mere concept of human tissue in a computer can make people squeamish, warns neuroscientist Dr Brett Kagan (PhD). But the Chief Scientific Officer of…
More than 5000 GPs are set to receive letters warning them about billing Medicare when either they or their patient is abroad, the RACGP says.…
A low ratio of cystatin C–based eGFR to creatinine-based eGFR in people with type 2 diabetes is linked to mortality regardless of conventional markers of…
The Federal Government has pledged to fund GP telehealth consultations across Australia through its nurse-led helpline if re-elected on 3 May. The service would run…
Dr Marc Heyning remembers one voluntary assisted dying patient who was estranged from his entire family. The patient had end-stage emphysema and initially wanted to…
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