Specialist Updates

Specialist Updates Oncology

Hormone therapy not tied to breast cancer recurrence, mortality

1st August 2022
In postmenopausal women treated for early-stage oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, neither vaginal oestrogen therapy…
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Specialist Updates Respiratory

Machine learning CT may better predict death in IPF

28th July 2022
Quantitative CT powered by machine learning could help doctors better predict death and disease severity in patients with…
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Specialist Updates Respiratory

Why NZ's 'tobacco endgame' law will be a world-first for public health

28th July 2022
With the first reading of a new bill in parliament earlier this week, Aotearoa New Zealand’s plan to be smokefree by 2025…
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Specialist Updates Rheumatology

Rheumatic disease patients show low response to COVID-19 booster

28th July 2022
Three doses of COVID-19 vaccine fail to provide sufficient protection against the Omicron variant in patients with…
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You suspect your patient has COPD. What's next?

8th August 2022

ADG talks to Dr Kerry Hancock about the challenges and opportunities in management
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Specialist Updates Dermatology

Could a simple gel become the mainstay of MC management?

28th July 2022
A novel nitric oxide-releasing gel that leads to high lesion clearance rates in patients with molluscum contagiosum could be…
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Specialist Updates Dermatology

How worried are you about monkeypox? Take our poll

27th July 2022
This week, monkeypox was declared a public health emergency of international concern after more than 16,000 cases were…
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Specialist Updates Endocrinology

GLP-1 receptor agonist matches surgical levels of weight loss: trial

25th July 2022
A novel anti-obesity drug could see patients lose more than a quarter of their body weight in one to two years — an amount…
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