Recent large-scale research has put the spotlight on a nuance that often looms under the surface of antidepressant prescribing: not all antidepressants are physiologically equal.…
A bill to let faith-based aged care homes refuse to participate in voluntary assisted dying would force terminally ill patients seeking the procedure to transfer…
Professor Bruce Hall.The Nobel Committee has quietly revised its scientific background paper for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine after a leading Australian immunologist accused it of misrepresenting…
Australian researchers who have identified 14 fatal overdoses involving prescribed take-home ketamine are warning that the figure is probably an underestimate. The team from UNSW…
Professor John Newnham.When Professor John Newnham started a campaign to stop deliveries between 37 and 39 weeks without medical indication, his obstetric colleagues were concerned.…
New guidelines arm GPs with evidence-based deprescribing recommendations for over 100 common medicines, from PPIs to analgesics. The University of WA-led guidelines, developed by more…
Doctors and aged care home staff have received a reprieve from new electronic prescribing rules after the Federal Government extended its deadline for the second…
Patients who self-diagnose gluten intolerance and self-impose restricted diets are almost certainly targeting the wrong culprit, an Australian-led review suggests. Published in The Lancet, the review found…
Kiwifruit should be considered for treating chronic idiopathic constipation in adults but not necessarily as part of a high-fibre diet, according to the first dietary…
GLP-1 receptor agonists deliver the most consistent cardiovascular protection for adults with type 2 diabetes, new research shows, but the evidence is unlikely to lead…
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