Medical Must-See: A mucosal-moulting mouth mystery
It took this patient until age 23 to receive a diagnosis for the mouth lesion she’d had since childhood, which was mostly asymptomatic aside from…
Ciara Seccombe
Ciara is a junior reporter at AusDoc.
Syphilis incidence in women quadruples in 10 years, fuelling congenital cases
Syphilis incidence in women has quadrupled since 2015, leading to more congenital cases and deaths, Australian research suggests. Overall incidence of syphilis and gonorrhoea has…
Killers, lawyers and their victims — welcome to the AusDoc podcast
In AusDoc‘s first-ever podcast, we speak to one of Australia’s leading forensic pathologists, Professor Roger Byard.
Clopidogrel better than aspirin for CAD secondary prevention: Lancet review
Clopidogrel is associated with a 14% lower risk of secondary coronary artery disease compared with aspirin without raising the risk of bleeds, a major study…
Higher BP at age seven associated with long-term CVD mortality: JAMA study
Higher blood pressure in seven-year-olds is associated with an increased risk of death from premature cardiovascular disease decades later, a research letter published in JAMA…
State Govt ‘exploring’ whether pharmacists should prescribe flu antivirals
The NSW Government could let pharmacists prescribe S4 antivirals for influenza, having already locked in pharmacist diagnosis and treatment of impetigo, shingles, dermatitis and psoriasis.…
New Australian calculator predicts patient response to antihypertensive combinations
A new Australian-developed online calculator lets doctors model the effectiveness of different antihypertensive combinations on their patients. The George Institute for Global Health has published…
Medical Must-See: The pointy end of hemiplegia
The cause of this woman’s hemiplegia? Hard to pin down. The patient, 73, presented to hospital after experiencing weakness and numbness in the right arm, approximately one…
‘If I die, it will be your fault’: Practice staff abused daily after city’s GPs close their books
Abuse of staff is a daily phenomenon at Hawkins Medical Clinic. The GP practice has 20,000 registered patients from across Mount Gambier, SA’s second-largest city,…
Lipoprotein(a) testing in general practice cheap and effective for CVD primary prevention, study finds
Lipoprotein(a) testing in general practice is cost-effective for identifying high-risk patients and preventing cardiovascular disease, Australian-led modelling has found. Researchers used UK Biobank data on…
