Medical Must-See: Armpit hair and autobiography
An American dermatologist experienced an unexpected snarl while walking a half marathon when his axillary hairs tangled with fibres from his shirt. In a twin feat…
Ciara Seccombe
Ciara is a junior reporter at AusDoc.
Off-label JAK inhibitors or anti-TNF agents options for refractory generalised granuloma annulare: meta-analysis
Off-label treatments show high remission rates for generalised granuloma annulare, a new meta-analysis shows. Australia has no formal treatment guidelines for generalised granuloma annulare (GGA),…
New GLP-1 RA ‘better than semaglutide’ for weight loss in Lancet study
A high dose of a new once-weekly injected GLP-1 receptor agonist has outdone semaglutide for weight loss in a phase III trial. Ecnoglutide, developed in…
JAMA and NEJM back $1.5 billion AI ‘that cannot hallucinate’ to answer doctors’ medical questions
AI search engine OpenEvidence has struck deals with JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine to try to give fully cited answers to medical…
2800 doctors to strike next month unless govt improves pay offer
Thousands of hospital doctors will strike for 24 hours next month unless the SA Government revises its offer of a 10% pay rise spread over…
‘Angry men behaving badly wherever you looked’: Dr Monique Ryan on her second election battle
In her second election, Dr Monique Ryan’s seat was one of the most closely watched. The paediatric neurologist turned teal independent held onto the Melbourne…
Meet the ‘data thug’ fighting bad medicine before it kills
Find bad medical evidence before it kills people. That is the motto of the newly launched Medical Evidence Project. It was set up by the…
Gilead chases TGA approval for twice-a-year HIV PrEP injection after FDA says yes
The US drug watchdog has approved a world-first biannual HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis injection, and the manufacturer has already lodged a TGA application. Gilead’s HIV-1 capsid…
GPs paid more than anaesthetists for hospital locum jobs — see the list
GPs rank seventh out of 15 specialties for hospital locum pay rates, averaging $234 an hour, an agency has found. Data on more than 4500…
The King’s Birthday Honours: The amazing career of medicine’s Guardian of the Dead
Forty years ago, Emeritus Professor Roger Byard was working as a hospital pathology registrar with an interest in forensics when he was tasked with performing…
