Health ministers and their billion-dollar barney over hospitals — what the hell is going on?
Two years ago, the federal and state governments broadly agreed on how to manage the next decade of public hospital funding. Yet state and territory…
Jamie Thannoo
Jamie is an AusDoc reporter.
Nothing to fear? Nurses and doctors react to AHPRA allowing RNs to prescribe S4 and S8 drugs
Dr Zach Byfield (DPS).Prescribing RNs entered Australian healthcare last week, at least conceptually. AHPRA unveiled a registration standard for RNs to gain an “endorsement for…
‘Housing design is killing people’: Doctor’s plan to fight rheumatic heart disease
Want to fix the shameful rates of rheumatic heart disease in the NT? Don’t bother with a vaccine, Dr Simon Quilty says. At least until you…
Exclusive colostrum intake in first three days linked to fewer allergies, Aussie researchers find
Babies exclusively fed colostrum in their first three days of life are almost 80% less likely to develop peanut allergy compared with those fed both colostrum and formula, an…
Breakthrough therapy slows Huntington’s disease progression by 75%
The first treatment for Huntington’s disease could be approved in 2026, following a phase II study showing a 75% reduction in the rate of disease…
Bupa funds pharmacogenomic tests for customers, with results to be sent to GPs
A private health insurer is offering free pharmacogenomic tests to thousands of customers, which it says will warn patients and their GPs about medicines that…
Medical Must-See: Symptoms fit arsenic poisoning to a tea
Doctors were already concerned about this patient drinking herbal tea made from cannabis and antiretrovirals, even before realising it probably also contained arsenic. The 37-year-old,…
Australian-led team reveals new, globally recognised criteria for vascular dementia diagnosis
Australian researchers have released new internationally recognised diagnostic criteria for vascular dementia, a condition they are now calling vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). Their JAMA…
Tripled semaglutide dose increases both weight loss and dysaesthesia, studies find
Tripling semaglutide doses increases both weight loss and the risk of dysaesthesia and gastrointestinal issues, according to two studies published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. The…
GPs accepting DVA gold cards are losing money, warns clinic treating 7000 veterans
GPs who accept gold or white cards are increasingly suffering financial losses for their sense of responsibility to treat veterans, experts say. RSL Queensland says…
