Excess skin — the one downside to significant weight loss
It is one of the outcomes of significant weight loss that rarely gets discussed. It is not the mass health benefits. It is the excess…
Carmel Sparke
Carmel is news editor of 6minutes.
The news today? A vigil for imprisoned GP, hospital parking cash bonanza, and a ‘shark tank’ for hearts
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…
‘She smoked, she swore, she sat with her legs apart’: Dr Lilian Cooper, Australia’s battlefield surgeon
Meet Queensland’s first ‘lady’ doctor — a swearing, smoking, straight-talking revhead who later became a skilled battlefield surgeon operating on the front line. Dr Lilian…
Two years of hiccups solved by identifying unusual cause: case report
The mystery of a 93-year-old man who had been hiccupping intermittently for two years, then persistently for a fortnight, was solved after doctors uncovered an…
Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals after toddler’s death
Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals under new NSW laws introduced in the wake of toddler Joe Massa’s death at Northern…
The news today? Grow your own semaglutide, why unnamed babies are at risk and another MBS rebate stoush
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…
‘Our practice is slowly dying of old age’: GP confronts Mark Butler live on TV
When GP Dr Paul Duff rose nervously to his feet to query federal Health Minister Mark Butler about the continued abuse of general practice, he…
The unsolved mysteries within Tony Abbott’s ‘sausage-machine medicine’
What are the big unknowns in general practice? No, not the reasons for the existence of the authority script line or whether obesity is a…
Caffeine may lower tinnitus risk: review
In a win for coffee-obsessed GPs, caffeine may reduce the risk of tinnitus, with fruit, dairy products and fibre also beneficial, a study suggests. In…
GP’s advice to elderly patient in fatal fitness-to-drive case ignored: coroner
A 90-year-old man who died after a car accident ignored his GP’s advice to undergo a driving assessment following a new AF diagnosis, a Victorian…
