Clinical Focus Therapy Update

A GP guide to SGLT2 inhibitors and kidney disease in type 2 diabetes

16th January 2020
Diabetes affects approximately 1.2 million Australians, with type 2 diabetes accounting for up to 90% of cases.1-3 The risk…
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Australian Doctor News

Bushfires: Schedule 4 drugs to be dispensed without scripts

10th January 2020
Pharmacists will be able to dispense a month's supply of S4 medicines to patients without a script under emergency powers as…
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Pharmacy News

Shortage concerns as TGA suspends all brands of ranitidine

9th January 2020
The TGA is suspending all remaining brands of ranitidine from the therapeutic register for six months, prompting concerns…
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Pharmacy
Australian Doctor News

Ranitidine drugs banned for six months

9th January 2020
More than 100 brands, strengths and formulations of the heartburn medicine ranitidine will be banned in Australia for six…
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Ranitidine
Australian Doctor News

New fears over spread of extensively drug-resistant Shigella

2nd January 2020
Doctors have been urged to test all suspected cases of shigella infection for antibiotic resistance amid reports of a…
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Shigella bacteria
Australian Doctor News

Chris Del Mar, Facebook chiro and the 'killer' inhalers: AusDoc stories of the year

20th December 2019
The countdown continues. Is the blue inhaler, that medicine cabinet regular, making its last gasp? And should 'sticks that…
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2019
6Minutes News

People using 'antibiotics for fish', claims US study

16th December 2019
Some people in the US may be taking antibiotics intended for fish as a way around the expense and inconvenience of seeing a…
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Aquatic