Spot Dx — Can you answer the burning question?
Cheryl is a 55-year-old female who presents with a week of oral discomfort. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below. If you select…
Tag: Infection
Spot Dx — Cheeky clue to peau d’orange and plaques
Jane is a 44-year-old who presents with a two-day history of a rash on the face. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below.…
Why don’t pharma companies make new antibiotics and save millions of lives?
In his 1945 Nobel lecture, Sir Alexander Fleming — awarded the Nobel prize for discovering penicillin — warned that easy availability of antibiotics would lead…
Spot Dx — Why’s this patient low after a trip to the Top End?
Mila, a 16-year-old student, presents with acute diplopia. She has been unwell for five days with fever, headache, nausea and vomiting. Test your clinical know-how…
Spot Dx — What’s round, red and itching all over?
A 68-year-old Caucasian woman presents with a two-year history of an erythematous and intensely pruritic rash that she thinks is psoriasis. Test your clinical know-how…
Meet RUPERT — the new decision support tool for treating kids with UTIs
Deciding when to prescribe IV antibiotics for UTIs in kids could soon be made easier thanks to Australian doctors who have developed a world-first individualised…
Cause for caution with corticosteroids pre-arthroplasty
A sixty-five-year-old man, with no medical comorbidities, has a painful right hip which is being investigated by his GP. An MRI shows severe hip joint…
Spot Dx — What’s lighting up these follicles?
Pat is a 31-year-old accountant who presents complaining of several months of progressively malodourous underarms. Pat is a 31-year-old accountant who presents complaining of several…
Spot Dx — What’s irritating this infant’s eye?
Noah is a seven-day-old infant who is brought in by his parents with a lump below his left eye. Test your clinical know-how by taking…
Chronic UTIs and test flaws overlooked in ‘archaic’ guidelines: urologists
UTI guidance is outdated and needs an overhaul to acknowledge chronic UTIs and the limits of culture assessments, urologists say. Adelaide urological surgeon Dr Ashani…
