Mandatory for all prescribers: Govt announces new national script system
A new National Medicine Record of what patients have been prescribed and dispensed will be mandatory for all doctors to use, including those in online-only…
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Doing lots of telehealth consults not linked to poor GP prescribing: Aussie study
GPs in established practices who make heavier use of telehealth prescribe fewer antibiotics and stick closer to guidelines than others, Australian research suggests. The mass…
Medical Must-See: Delayed-onset angioedema an ACE diagnosis
The culprit behind this woman’s tongue oedema had been hiding in plain sight in her medicine cabinet for over a decade. The 84-year-old presented to…
Why colour blindness is linked to bladder cancer deaths
Increased bladder cancer mortality in colourblind patients is potentially because they cannot see blood in their urine, researchers suggest. Their study of US health records…
Maternal pertussis vaccination cuts ED presentations in newborns by 89%: JAMA study
Pertussis vaccination in pregnant women is associated with an 89% lower risk of severe pertussis in their newborns, a JAMA Network Open study suggests. Severe…
Evil in the inkblots? What happened when Nazi war criminals took the Rorschach test
Hermann Göring at the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg, 1946. Photo: US Holocaust Memorial Museum.In August 1945, armed with a few inkblot cards and…
ADHD and methylphenidate treatment in children linked to obesity in adulthood: JAMA study
Children with ADHD, especially those receiving methylphenidate therapy, have an increased risk of obesity and overweight as young adults, a study in JAMA Network Open has found. Children…
Lung cancer screening expected to uncover thousands of undiagnosed COPD cases
Tens of thousands of COPD cases could be identified incidentally through the National Lung Cancer Screening Program, respiratory physicians say. The program, launched in July…
ChatGPT invites patients to share pathology results, visit summaries and clinical histories with AI chatbot
OpenAI has launched a feature on its ChatGPT tool that encourages users to share pathology results, visit summaries and clinical histories with the artificial intelligence…
Mammogram-reading software to fill holes left by looming radiologist shortage
BreastScreen NSW will use computer software, alongside a radiologist, to analyse all first-time screening mammograms after a staged rollout showed a 20% drop in callbacks…
