15 Apr 2024
Australia’s total food consumption falls: ABS
The cost-of-living crisis has forced changes to eating habits, with shoppers choosing cheap and convenient items over fruit and veggies.
15 Apr 2024
Former GP calls for schools to adopt ‘vaping areas’
Allocating nicotine-addicted children a space to vape is ‘compassionate and pragmatic’ a NSW inquiry heard, but the idea has already proved divisive.
12 Apr 2024
Connection key to retaining rural GPs: Study
Creating a supportive environment, both personally and professionally, is crucial to making GPs feel at home in the bush, ANU researchers say.
11 Apr 2024
Government urged to learn from NHS failures
The apparent direction of the ongoing Scope of Practice review has RACGP members concerned that convenience will be prioritised over safety.
11 Apr 2024
In Practice: Practical pain management
A new webinar will present practical ideas GPs can implement with patients experiencing chronic pain.
11 Apr 2024
‘Huge hive of clever minds’ driving GP training
Tasmanian medical educators discuss collaboration and supporting registrars since the transition to college-led training.
10 Apr 2024
Study finds dietary fibre critical in managing hypertension
Experts are calling for the fibre to be added to clinical guidelines for blood pressure management, saying it is ‘underappreciated’.
10 Apr 2024
‘I couldn’t walk’: GP’s personal story of vitamin B6 toxicity
Found in listed medicines, energy drinks, cereals and weight loss shakes, some people are consuming more than 50x the recommended daily intake.
11 Apr 2024
Study questions Paxlovid’s COVID-19 ‘usefulness’
Researchers say the antiviral does little to reduce symptom duration for some vaccinated patients, but still recommended its use for the vulnerable.
11 Apr 2024
‘Underused’ cardiac rehab programs prove lifesaving: Study
GPs are being urged to promote the initiative to patients, after it was revealed those who attend are 38% less likely to die or be hospitalised.