Leading doctors call on PBAC to scrap asthma drug prescribing ban on GPs
Leading doctors are directly lobbying the Federal Government to scrap new restrictions stopping GPs from initiating PBS scripts for Flixotide Junior and Axotide Junior in…
Tag: Preventer (Asthma)
Cash not care: Is the asthma drug GP crackdown all about money?
There is still no official word on why GPs have been banned from initiating Flixotide Junior and Axotide Junior under the PBS for children under…
PBS abruptly restricts GP prescribing of kids’ asthma inhaler
GPs say they have been blindsided by new PBS rules on initiating the asthma preventer fluticasone propionate in young children without non-GP specialist input. Since…
A GP guide to severe asthma in adults
Need to know: Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterised by chronic airway inflammation, reversible expiratory airflow limitation and airway hyper-responsiveness.1 Roughly 10% of Australians have…
Children with poorly controlled asthma ‘falling through cracks in care’
The rate of hospital readmissions is climbing, Australian researchers warn.
RACGP criticises push to make asthma preventer OTC
The TGA will consider the unnamed application for inhaled budesonide later this month.
Peak asthma body updates smoking cessation advice
New asthma management guidance includes a role for second-line use of e-cigarettes as a quit aid.
Asthma council rejects advice on intermittent ICS for kids
An international body recommends simultaneous preventer and reliever use even with mild intermittent symptoms.
Initiating triple therapy in a patient with work-related asthma/COPD: case study
Case study: meet Nathan who has severe breathlessness
Underuse of maintenance therapy and the over-reliance on reliever: asthma case study
A best practice approach to achieving symptom control
