01 Aug 2023
Vitamin D deficiency: To test or not to test
What should GPs say to patients who request vitamin D tests that are not clinically indicated?
31 Jul 2023
Regulation ‘must keep pace’ with AI revolution: RACGP
While AI may help reduce the administrative burden for GPs significantly, a college submission has said regulatory concerns need addressing.
27 Jul 2023
Precision oncology launches across Australia
More than 23,000 people with incurable cancers are set to benefit from an initiative to fund genetic testing and identify targeted treatments.
27 Jul 2023
Daily aspirin increases brain bleeds: Study
Prescribing healthy patients low-dose aspirin does not prevent stroke but does increase risk of intracerebral bleeding, new research finds.
26 Jul 2023
Depression doubles dementia risk: Study
The association between the two conditions persisted regardless of whether depression was diagnosed in early, middle, or late life.
26 Jul 2023
Future asthma risk flagged for babies with food allergy
Even if the allergy is outgrown, poorer lung function outcomes are more likely by six years of age, a world-first study finds.
26 Jul 2023
Global diabetes cases to reach 1.3 billion by 2050: Study
There are countries where as many as one in five people could be living with diabetes if current trends continue.
25 Jul 2023
Plea for urgent youth mental health overhaul
Doctors say not enough help is being given to GPs doing the heavy lifting within an ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘inadequate’ system.
21 Jul 2023
Trickling antibiotic pipeline leads to superbug warning
The world is facing an inevitable antimicrobial resistance crisis, the co-author of a new report analysing recent research efforts has said.
24 Jul 2023
Rural Australians absent from bowel cancer screening
Bowel cancer screening is failing to reach Australia’s regional communities, according to a new study.