I hate telehealth: Sometimes it feels like I am being sucked into my computer
I hate telehealth. If there was a magical Tardis that could transport the patients who need it into my room at the exact time of…
Tag: Coronavirus
COVID-19 vaccines targeting current variants to be rolled out from December
Practices can order new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines that target circulating Omicron subvariants ahead of a mid-December rollout, the Federal Government has announced. Amid another surge…
‘Simple things are difficult to sell’: Leading UK GP on primary care’s PR failure
Professor Trish Greenhalgh’s general practice parable goes like this. The scene is Britain in the late 1990s. The patient is a first-time mother. ×…
Updated November telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide
AusDoc’s telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items Quick Guide has been updated to incorporate November’s big changes. These include new item numbers for telehealth consults lasting…
Long COVID patients heading to GPs as public clinics close down
GPs have the skills to helm long COVID treatment in Australia but need financial support, a leading GP has told the WONCA World Conference 2023…
Sensitivity of COVID-19 rapid tests oversold, study suggests
Patients using home self-tests for COVID-19 are receiving “overly optimistic” suggestions of accuracy from the product inserts, a systematic review says. This is “probably leading to flawed…
Latest chapter in ‘no jab, no heart’ case only adds to the ethical debate
One thing can clearly be said about life since the onset of COVID-19: these have been interesting times. There are so many aspects of the…
‘No-one cared for years’: mRNA scientists win $1.6 million Nobel prize for medicine
The Hungarian biochemist and US immunologist whose scientific breakthroughs enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 have been rewarded as joint winners of the…
COVID-19 ranks as third leading cause of death: ABS
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in Australia in 2022 after ischaemic heart disease and dementia, with new data showing it accounted for…
Long-awaited inquiry into COVID-19 dubbed a ‘protection racket’
Epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett will jointly lead a 12-month federal inquiry into Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with a health economist and a…
