6Minutes News

How GPs can help develop a time-saving 'digital scribe'

9th December 2019
GPs are being recruited to record patient consultations to help create a ‘digital scribe’ that would slash the time…
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Australian Doctor News

College journal defends 'extraordinary' GP placebo prescribing study

9th December 2019
The Australian Journal of General Practice has defended publishing a paper that concluded GPs are commonly prescribing…
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Dr Michael Tam
6Minutes News

Big Pharma money is skewing research

5th December 2019
Drug company financing of research is distorting medical evidence, harming patients and wasting money — and it’s time for it…
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Big pharma money
Specialist Updates Cardiology

Real-world study 'reassuring' on paclitaxel drug-eluting devices

30th October 2019
Contrary to a previous meta-analysis that prompted global concern, paclitaxel drug-eluting devices (DEDs) in peripheral…
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Medical Observer Opinion

Hep, hep: Hooray for hepatitis C success, but why the lag on hepatitis B?

18th October 2019
Around one-third of Australians living with hepatitis C have been cured in the past four years. Hepatitis C is one of five…
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Hepatitis
Medical Observer Opinion

'Living cancer drugs' stay on patrol in the body for decades

15th October 2019
Professor Carl June — an oncologist, researcher and renowned pioneer in the fight against cancer — has created the first …
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Professor Carl June
Medical Observer Opinion

Nobel Prize gives the study of cell hypoxia its 'whoo hooo' moment

14th October 2019
On the morning of 7 October, I woke up with the message from a colleague saying: “HIF got the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
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