On-call vs rostered night shifts — what’s better for sleep and cognition?
Night shifts are an inescapable fact of life for trainee doctors, but now a study reveals that a set overnight roster results in better quality…
Mohana Basu
Mohana is an Australian Doctor reporter.
Breakdancer develops 30cm tumour from too many headspins: case study
Breakdancing dominated headlines after Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn’s infamous Olympic performance, and now doctors have identified a unique overuse injury among breakers. Known as the “headspin hole”,…
Scurvy diagnosed in 65-year-old woman on diet of canned soup and fish: case study
Scurvy was once synonymous with 18th-century sea explorers — but doctors say the disease could still be considered as a differential diagnosis in patients with abnormal…
$190,000 combination therapy for blood cancer listed on the PBS
A new combination therapy to treat both chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma is now available on the PBS. Fifteen months of ibrutinib (Imbruvica) plus…
AI producing medical notes for more than 10,000 consults a day, says Lyrebird boss
Doctors are using AI scribes to draft medical notes in more than 10,000 consult a day, claims Lyrebird co-founder Kai Van Lieshout. While the numbers…
Bright light therapy improves outcomes in non-seasonal depression: review
Bright light therapy may be an effective adjunctive treatment even for those with non-seasonal depressive disorders, according to a review of 11 studies. So far,…
Watch for anxiety and hypertension after starting ADHD medication: Aussie guidance
Patients starting stimulants may become anxious due to sudden awareness of their behvaiours, which can be mistaken for pharmacologically-induced anxiety, new Australian ADHD guidance says.…
Medical Must-See: Unusual housemate leads to infection and aortic valve replacement
Even on Airbnb, most guests will not cause as much drama as this patient’s unusual lodger. The 49-year-old biologist presented to doctors in the Democratic…
New migraine drugs less efficacious than some triptans: BMJ review
Some triptans are more efficacious for acute migraines than newer, more expensive drugs including gepants, a review of 137 randomised controlled trials suggests. Writing in…
Why don’t pharma companies make new antibiotics and save millions of lives?
In his 1945 Nobel lecture, Sir Alexander Fleming — awarded the Nobel prize for discovering penicillin — warned that easy availability of antibiotics would lead…
