Study questions efficacy of spinal cord stimulation for pain
Spinal cord stimulation for post-surgery chronic radicular pain is no better than placebo and of “questionable benefit” outside of clinical trials, neurosurgeons say. The Norwegian…
Tag: Evidence-based medicine
The disease guidelines industry: How independent is it, really?
Australian Doctor recently reported on an expert-written guideline urging Australian GPs to inform patients with mild dementia that a multivitamin supplement had been shown to…
Australian Prescriber offered last-minute reprieve by Fed Govt
Australian Prescriber has been thrown a lifeline after the Federal Government said it would offer a contract to a new publisher to keep the medical journal…
Watchdog to hear accusations of patient harm linked to pharmacy UTI prescribing
Queensland’s health watchdog has agreed to meet with doctors over accusations that pharmacists diagnosing and treating UTIs has led to patient harm. Meanwhile, the university…
New Alzheimer’s drug could be available next year, but are the risks worth the reward?
Lecanemab is the first drug to help improve the symptoms of Alzheimer’s by slowing the disease. These are very promising results, although the only data…
Radical new treatment offers hope for patients with lupus
When real patients have unprecedented positive outcomes to a new treatment, it’s tempting to talk about it as a breakthrough for medical science. This describes…
Medicine is full of paradoxes, but there are also glimmers of hope
What happens when you combine a global pandemic with unprecedented access to instant mass communication in a culture that is suspicious of expertise and authority?…
Review ‘unable to verify’ NPS MedicineWise claim it saved millions
The independent review that urged the Federal Government to defund NPS MedicineWise said the charity’s claim it had saved Medicare $100 million over five years…
NPS MedicineWise will be gone by the end of the year
NPS MedicineWise is being shut down for good. The move announced this morning follows last week’s decision by the Federal Government to axe its $25…
Professor Paul Glasziou defends GP nudge letter experiment
After years of receiving so-called nudge letters from the Department of Health, last week GPs finally found out they were unknowing participants in a randomised…
