Accidental ingestion of medication blister packs could provide a rare explanation for abdominal pain without a clear cause, especially if cognition is impaired, say Swiss…
Patients aged 45-49 can soon request a free bowel cancer testing kit under Federal Government changes to screening age thresholds. The new criteria announced in…
Recently, I had a day where I actually felt like I was practising medicine. Not that day-to-day general practice isn’t medicine, it’s just that the…
Mothers with a history of gestational diabetes have a 50% higher risk of subsequent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, while the risk is more than doubled…
The Queensland Government’s pharmacy prescribing experiment is finally a reality. Pharmacists in the pilot confirmed on Wednesday morning that the State Government had given them…
A distended, painful abdomen and ‘whirlpool-like’ distribution of the small intestine on CT led Chinese doctors to this “extremely rare” case of diffuse intestinal lipomatosis.…
A hospital that stopped an elderly man’s warfarin decided ‘inappropriately’ that his GP should restart it, a coroner has found. According to Victorian coroner Katherine…
A childhood habit of drinking raw milk was the likely cause of a bovine TB infection that arose decades later, presenting as a rare appendicitis…
Patients with Crohn’s disease who start on infliximab combined with an immunomodulator have far better outcomes within a year compared with traditional ‘step-up’ treatment, a…
Three’s a crowd, according to the saying, and this is especially true of sigmoid colons in an infant. This nine-month-old patient had previously undergone the…
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