Medical Must-See: Was this insulin script a rash decision?
This 39-year-old pregnant woman had an unexpected reaction to her gestational diabetes treatment that resulted in distinct rashes on her abdomen and legs. She had…
Mohana Basu
Mohana is an Australian Doctor reporter.
What’s behind this year’s historic pertussis outbreak?
A record-breaking 42,428 pertussis cases have been notified this year compared with the previous high of about 39,000 in 2011 and a mere 2454 cases…
‘World-leading’: RSV vaccine free for pregnant women from 2025
Pregnant women can access respiratory syncytial virus vaccination under the National Immunisation Program starting next winter, the Federal Government has announced. Single-dose respiratory syncytial virus…
‘I was a professor when I sat my GP exams’: Evidence-based medicine star Professor Paul Glasziou retires
When Professor Paul Glasziou first went through medical training in the late ’70s, doctors were taught based on understanding the disease process and what seemed…
Is failure to conduct reproducibility studies the latest clinical research crisis?
Pressure to publish new findings is a key reason reproducibility studies are being pushed to the wayside, researchers say. Despite being a crucial test of…
TGA lets Lifeblood produce faecal transplants for use outside of clinical trials
Red Cross Lifeblood has received approval to produce faecal microbiota transplants for treating Clostridioides difficile outside of a clinical trial. Hospitals can now order supplies…
‘Reproductive health deserts’: A fifth of regional areas have no IUD providers
Almost 20% of regional Victorian areas have no IUD insertion providers and 50% have no pharmacies stocking IUD devices, a report has found. The report…
Psychiatric disorders raise risk of sudden cardiac death across all age groups: study
Young people with schizophrenia have 4.5 times the risk of sudden cardiac death compared with the general population, a study shows. Danish researchers drawing on…
Aussie doctors blame rare scurvy case on cost-of-living crisis
A WA man who could not afford nutritious food or his prescribed vitamin supplements has landed in hospital with scurvy, doctors say. The patient had…
Research links levonorgestrel IUDs to breast cancer, but GP says the risk is small compared with benefits
Levonorgestrel-releasing IUDs may be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, research suggests, but a GP says the devices have significant benefits compared to…
