Twelve GPs face being stripped of specialist status after AHPRA admin bungle
A dozen doctors may have been mistakenly listed as specialist GPs for the past 12 years because of an administrative error dating back to the creation…
Siobhan Calafiore
Siobhan is a reporter with Australian Doctor Group.
‘Deliberately misleading’: Headspace denies claims it’s a waste of money
Headspace has rejected claims by two leading psychiatrists that it is swallowing up hundreds of millions of dollars for youth mental health, despite little robust…
More than 10 years on lithium ‘hikes renal disease risk’
Patients with bipolar or schizoaffective disorder who take lithium for more than a decade experience a steeper decline in kidney function over time than the…
Japanese encephalitis rife in inland regions, blood testing shows
Japanese encephalitis virus is now well entrenched in pockets of Australia, where more than one in 10 people are showing evidence of asymptomatic infection, health…
Risk of developing metastatic breast cancer ‘declines with time’
Australian women’s risk of developing metastatic breast cancer after a diagnosis of localised disease declines with time, dropping to about 1% after five years, researchers…
Can vitamin D protect against COVID-19?
Daily vitamin D supplements do not reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 or other acute respiratory infections, two large randomised controlled trials suggest. The researchers…
Sharing burial plots to swabbing dogs: The strangest things patients have asked of GPs
After Dr Pam Rachootin told of her brief time as an Uber GP — when a patient asked her to pick up Woodroofe’s lemonade en…
IMG quits Australia after year-long paperwork battle with AHPRA
An IMG who spent years battling bureaucracy to work as a GP in a small Tasmanian town says Australia is missing out on doctors because of the “long and inefficient” process. Dr Joris Asselbergs spent 12…
GPs urged to conduct psychosocial checks on patients with low back pain
GPs seeing patients with low back pain are advised to carry out a psychosocial assessment for each new presentation, according to the first nationally published…
Blood type linked to risk of early-onset stroke, study shows
Blood type might be an indicator of risk for stroke at an early age, a meta-analysis suggests. An international consortium of researchers has found that…
