Medical Must-See: Toddler’s tiny injury leads to rare fungal infection
A minor eye wound turned into a major infection for a 15-month-old girl from Pakistan, who developed potentially lethal mucormycosis despite nothing to suggest she was…
Tag: Paediatrics
‘Shaken to my core’: Dr Mike Freelander verges on tears after condemning nurses’ anti-Semitic hate video
Federal MP Dr Mike Freelander has described how a social media video of two nurses saying they would kill Israeli patients “shook me to my…
‘Thank you, I’m a big fan of your work!’: A woman’s emotional reunion with the neonatologist who saved her life
Back in 1995 Dr Umesh Vaidya saved a life that had barely begun. He had been the neonatologist who resuscitated Freyja when she and her…
NHMRC to develop new treatment guidelines for transgender youth
The NHMRC is to develop new national guidelines for transgender youth amid the ongoing debate about the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Announced…
‘Medicine is witchcraft’: Parents who believed God would cure daughter’s diabetes found guilty of manslaughter
All 14 members of a fringe religious group have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old who died after her insulin was withheld.…
Puberty blocker ban: What does the Queensland Govt expect to find in another evidence review?
The reaction to the Queensland Government’s ban on the initiation of both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children and adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria…
Queensland bans public gender clinics initiating puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to under-18s
Public hospitals in Queensland have been banned from initiating puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to under-18s amid concerns about prescribing practices in one of the…
Racial bias ‘likely existed’ in high-stakes RACP exam, investigation finds
This month the Royal Australasian College of Physicians released a detailed 80-page independent report into the running of one of its make-or-break exams. The report…
New TGA warning on suicide and depression risk with asthma drug
New boxed warnings on montelukast advise doctors to stop treatment if patients develop depression, suicidality or other neuropsychiatric symptoms. The TGA slapped warnings on the…
Treating symptomatic varicocele
Ethan, aged 14, is brought in by his mother with concerns about swelling in the left testicular region. He is fit and well, plays AFL,…
