Could virtual reality excursions become the new bingo sessions in aged care facilities? That’s the question Dr Wei Qi Koh (PhD) asks as she discusses…
This story has been updated. A patient under a psychiatric treatment order drew a knife on hospital staff and threatened them until a tactical team…
Cutting funding to hospitals with higher complication rates is linked to a 25% reduction in complication risk, the Productivity Commission says. The commission, the government’s…
“The profession is kind of selling itself as an add-on to the hairdresser, really.” This is Associate Professor Mark Schifter. “To try and get the…
More than 95% of patients with low-risk penicillin allergy do not react to direct oral challenge, an Australian-led study has found. The researchers offered direct…
A $300 respiratory syncytial virus vaccine will be free for all patients aged 75 and older and First Nations patients aged 60 and older, the…
The number of doctors providing telehealth services has ballooned since the pandemic, but another transformation has also been quietly underway — the virtual care provided…
A CPD provider has developed an AI that answers questions on Medicare and medicine, aiming to integrate it with Best Practice software by mid-2026. Launched…
The Productivity Commission has urged the Federal Government to overcome its election-cycle thinking and invest in prevention and telehealth to save billions of dollars in…
After two decades, this 56-year-old’s painless scrotal swelling really started weighing on him. The patient told urologists that the swelling had been slowly growing for…
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