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Being caring helps patients to shed kilos, study reveals

21st March 2019

Patients lose more weight when they feel GPs care about them and understand how hard it is to lose weight, a US study of…

15th March 2019

Most patients have health worries — that’s probably why they’re in a GP surgery — but when that tips over into persistent…

13th March 2019

Mothers who express gratitude to doctors and nurses caring for critically ill babies could be inadvertently boosting the…

13th March 2019

Several years ago, it was calculated that the cost of hospital outpatient ‘no-shows’ in Queensland was running at about $4…

17th April 2019

This content has been developed independently by Australian Doctor Group at the request of, and with funding from,…

11th March 2019

A bereaved family have told how they were aghast when a medical 'robot doctor' rolled into their grandfather’s hospital room…

7th March 2019

A study on pain management in emergency departments has inadvertently prompted a group of researchers to do a bit of soul…

6th March 2019

The word 'elderly' should not be used in medicine, argues Professor Javad Hekmat-panah, a neurologist and neurosurgeon based…