CV risk lingers up to three years for patients who had COVID-19 before vaccine rollout, doctors say
Patients who had COVID-19 prior to the rollout of vaccines have an increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events for up to three years after…
Tag: Infectious diseases
Spot Dx — What is causing these palmar patches?
Bec is a 34-year-old office worker with a six-month history of a recurrent rash on the hands following development of oral and genital ulcers. Test…
‘Billions of Trojan horses’: Doctors urged to sanitise their smartphones
Smartphones should be considered a threat to the nation’s biosecurity, researchers claim, after they discovered that the phones of 20 doctors attending the WONCA conference…
Interpreting the latest guidelines: How to choose the correct COVID-19 antiviral
And how individualised patient management plans tackle the problem of clinical inertia
‘Untreatable’ STI increasingly common among urban patients, says sexual health expert
Antimicrobial resistance has created another “untreatable” STI, Mycoplasma genitalium, which is increasingly common in Australia, doctors say. Melbourne sexual health physician Professor Catriona Bradshaw said…
Medical Must-See: Unusual housemate leads to infection and aortic valve replacement
Even on Airbnb, most guests will not cause as much drama as this patient’s unusual lodger. The 49-year-old biologist presented to doctors in the Democratic…
‘Don’t panic’: On-demand dosing and overseas suppliers are options during PrEP shortage
A shortage of tenofovir disoproxil–emtricitabine tablets for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis will mean careful planning with patients over upcoming months, the TGA says. Various brands of…
Mark Butler bullish that Shingrix supplies will cover expanded NIP listing
Another 215,000 patients are now eligible for free shingles vaccination as the government assures GPs it has bought enough of the recombinant vaccine Shingrix to…
Doxycycline ‘morning after pill’ cuts STI rates by 80%: largest real-world study
Prescribing doxycycline as a morning after pill significantly reduces chlamydia and syphilis incidence following condomless sex between men, according to the largest real-world study so…
A GP guide to long COVID ‘brain fog’
This article focuses of the cognitive components of long COVID, also known as ‘brain fog’. It complements a previous How to Treat on post-infective fatigue…
