In this Healthed lecture, Dr Patrick Coleman will guide clinicians through the various components reported on in iron studies and the implications when results are outside the normal range.
A/Prof Colquhoun explains that iron deficiency is common in people with chronic disease and covers practical considerations of chronic diseases that are most at risk of affecting iron stores and how iron deficiency associated with chronic disease is best managed in the primary care setting.
Prof Tran will bring clinicians up to speed on the important features of this side-effect - where and when these clots occur, the symptoms they produce, when and how these patients should be investigated and how these patients are best managed. Get the answers to the most frequent questions your patients are asking.
If you work in a truly general general practice you will no doubt be familiar with this scenario. The patient on a NOAC who is going for a dental procedure, cataract operation or arthroscopy.Do they need to stop their NOAC? And if so, when and for how long?Often there are more than a couple of opinions out there, with a lot of different considerations to take into account.
Psychologist; Director, UNSW Ageing Futures Institute; ARC Laureate Fellow; Senior Principal Research Scientist, NeuRA
Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey translates the WHO's updated 2026 dementia risk-reduction guidelines changes into concrete actions for opportunistic risk assessment and targeted advice in everyday general practice.