2800 doctors to strike next month unless govt improves pay offer
Thousands of hospital doctors will strike for 24 hours next month unless the SA Government revises its offer of a 10% pay rise spread over…
Tag: Regulation
Meet the ‘data thug’ fighting bad medicine before it kills
Find bad medical evidence before it kills people. That is the motto of the newly launched Medical Evidence Project. It was set up by the…
Crushed skulls, missing helmets and data blind spots: E-scooter trauma alarming surgeons
Among the PowerPoint slides shared with colleagues by vascular surgeon Dr John Crozier are videos of e-scooter falls and the gory images of the wounds…
Gilead chases TGA approval for twice-a-year HIV PrEP injection after FDA says yes
The US drug watchdog has approved a world-first biannual HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis injection, and the manufacturer has already lodged a TGA application. Gilead’s HIV-1 capsid…
Don’t promote yourself as ‘the doll-maker’ or ‘magic hands’: AHPRA
New AHPRA guidelines warn cosmetic doctors to stop advertising with terms such as “doll-maker”, “sculptor”, “artist” or “magic hands”. Two new guidelines on non-surgical cosmetic…
Lawyer calls for patients to join class action against Blackmores’ B6 supplements
Lawyers are investigating a potential class action against vitamin giant Blackmores after patients who took vitamin B6 supplements allegedly developed peripheral neuropathy. Polaris Lawyers founder…
‘Infuriating and dangerous’: Psychiatrist tries and fails to speak with his patients’ medicinal cannabis prescribers
Medicinal cannabis prescribers are failing to acknowledge concerned correspondence from patients’ regular doctors, a leading psychiatrist says. Professor Richard Harvey has routinely written to the doctors prescribing…
‘I’m a healer, not a dealer!’: GP on her dark times working for a medicinal cannabis telehealth clinic
Revelations that AHPRA knows of eight doctors who have collectively written 80,000 scripts for category 5 THC medicinal cannabis once again raise the obvious question.…
AMA demands suspension of high-THC medicinal cannabis
Doctors have “no reasonable justification” for prescribing medicinal cannabis that is 98% tetrahydrocannabinol, says the AMA, which wants these drugs suspended from the Special Access…
Eight doctors wrote 80,000 medicinal cannabis scripts in six months: AHPRA
Eight medical practitioners have apparently each written more than 10,000 medicinal cannabis scripts in just six months for the highest THC-strength products, AHPRA says. There…
