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    Tag: Adolescent medicine

    Headspace ‘twice as expensive’ as GP mental health care, review finds

    October 19, 2022

    Headspace services cost twice as much per session compared with GP mental health care, a government-commissioned report has found.  Running to 350 pages, it concluded that Headspace…

    Professor Patrick McGorry

    Doctors warn against TGA ‘overreach’ in paracetamol crackdown 

    October 19, 2022

    Doctors have warned the TGA that a blanket ban on teenagers buying paracetamol would be an overreaction, potentially undermining appropriate use of the common analgesic. The…

    NHMRC backs push for GPs to prescribe ADHD stimulants

    October 6, 2022

    The push is on to broaden prescribing rights for ADHD stimulant medication and implement nationally standardised training for interested GPs. The first NHMRC-endorsed Australian Evidence-Based…

    ‘Deliberately misleading’: Headspace denies claims it’s a waste of money

    September 19, 2022

    Headspace has rejected claims by two leading psychiatrists that it is swallowing up hundreds of millions of dollars for youth mental health, despite little robust…

    Tavistock Centre

    Why the Tavistock gender identity clinic is being shut down

    August 17, 2022

    Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young…

    ‘Growing pains’ may not be a real diagnosis, warn researchers

    July 22, 2022

    A University of Sydney study suggests the condition is a misnomer, not a diagnosis, and could delay identification of the real reason for childrenâ…

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    Intentional antidepressant overdoses ‘rising in adolescents’

    May 17, 2022

    The concerning trend has emerged despite stable rates of emergency visits overall, the researchers say.

    Critical care doctors raise alarm over self-harm among teens

    May 17, 2022

    ICU hospitalisaions among 12-17-years-olds for ingestion of drugs, hanging, self-strangulation or self-injury peaked during the first 15 months of …

    Airway stimulation eases sleep apnoea in teens with Down syndrome: trial

    May 6, 2022

    Large multicentre study shows the intervention is most effective in the under 65s and those with severe hypoxaemia: BMJ.

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    A damning Govt review of e-cigarettes shows vaping leads to smoking, the opposite of what supporters claim

    April 8, 2022

    A major review on the health effects of e-cigarettes reflects what public health advocates have feared – escalating use of e-cigarettes in school-aged children, early…

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