More than 30,000 infected with HIV and hepatitis C in blood products scandal: UK inquiry
It has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the 75-year history of the UK’s NHS. More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV…
Tag: Haematology
‘You’re expected to manage anything’: Life as a doctor on a tiny island
Dr Jodie McCoy was already working at Norfolk Island’s only hospital when she was a teenager, as a lifestyle officer at its aged care component.…
Hospital failed to restart patient’s warfarin and sent discharge letter to wrong GP: coroner
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…
The stress of chemo-induced heart failure is no match for hospital carpark madness
How’s your Yiddish? I’ve just done my Aboriginal CPD component on the importance of maintaining one’s language. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the…
Leukaemia with CNS involvement tied to worse survival outcomes
In adults with acute myeloid leukemia, those with CNS involvement have worse overall survival, according to a review in Leukemia Research. US researchers conducted a…
TGA approves first iron infusion for kids
GPs can now provide IV iron infusions to children with iron-deficiency anaemia where oral preparations are ineffective or cannot be used. The TGA has extended…
Medical Must-See: How a bright yellow ulcer sparked a three-way ‘diagnostic dispute’
A young man’s yellow leg ulcer has served as a lesson in considering differential and albeit unusual diagnoses after US dermatologists discovered it was caused…
$200 MBS item for GP iron infusions a ‘no-brainer’: RACGP
Rebates for iron infusions in general practice would save taxpayers up to $123 million each year by keeping patients out of hospital, the RACGP says.…
Safe to stop monthly blood tests for clozapine after two years: Aussie study
Most patients given clozapine for schizophrenia can stop monthly blood tests after two years, according to Australian psychiatrists who say the current practice of indefinite…
Why so blue? A GP remembers a rare diagnosis from 1979 that was ‘just so weird’
It was 1979 when Dr Michael Tayar, then a senior resident at Canberra Hospital, encountered a middle-aged patient who looked “deeply cyanotic” around her face…
