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Patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk of cardiovascular events now have access to PBS-funded empagliflozin, whatever their HbA1c levels. The new PBS listing…
Patients with acute coronary syndrome should target LDL cholesterol below 1.4mmol/L and a 50% reduction compared with baseline levels, updated guidance says. The new guidance…
A doctor charged with sexual assault offences has lost a bid to temporarily lift his suspension after a tribunal decided it lacked the legal power…
Only 10% of non-interventional treatments for lower back pain are likely to provide any relief, and those effects are small, a systematic review has found.…
Thousands of doctors will stop working for three days next week, leaving public hospitals with a skeleton staff and defying legal orders banning their industrial…
Australia has moved a step closer to anal cancer screening for people with HIV with the release of new best practice guidelines. The guidelines, released…
I recently opened my smartphone to an AusDoc article about the isolation felt by a GP who was caring for a terminally ill patient with…
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Nitrofurantoin is now first line for adult patients with acute cystitis because of high resistance to trimethoprim, new guidelines say. The change is part of…
GPs used 60-day prescribing for fewer than 30% of eligible scripts in the policy’s first year, analysis of PBS data has found. The Federal Government…
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