Qld Govt reveals details of puberty blocker review
A ban on public clinics initiating puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to under-18s will last for at least eight months after the Queensland Government revealed…
Tag: Paediatrics
Medical Must-See: Can drug-laced cement set a new standard for Seymour fracture treatment?
Seymour fractures are notoriously difficult to treat, but Japanese doctors have laid the groundwork for a rock-solid fix: vancomycin-impregnated calcium phosphate cement. A Seymour fracture…
Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals after toddler’s death
Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals under new NSW laws introduced in the wake of toddler Joe Massa’s death at Northern…
Spot Dx — What’s behind this child’s rash?
Indie is a three-year-old girl with pruritic erythema on the face and extremities present from the age of 18 months, when she weaned from breastmilk.…
Medical Must-See: Read my (enlarged) lips
The cause of this boy’s swollen lips was unsealed based on critical histopathology. The 10-year-old presented to a hospital in Okayama, Japan, with persistent painless…
A GP guide to urticaria in children
Need to know: Urticaria is a condition characterised by the presence of wheals, angioedema, or both. Urticarial lesions, also commonly known as wheals, hives or…
Medical Must-See: Doctors get the sac from child’s internal iliac artery
Iranian surgeons have removed a 4cm x 4cm aneurysmal sac after diagnosing an idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy. The previously…
Trump’s ‘biological truth’ of two sexes and the medical mutilation of children
It is worth running the quote in full, so there is no ambiguity. “Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing…
Doctors allowed to resect seven-year-old’s brain tumour as Jehovah’s Witnesses opt against court fight
Emergency surgery to resect a seven-year-old’s brain tumour will go ahead after the child’s Jehovah’s Witness parents decided not to fight doctors in court over…
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…
