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Sophia Auld

Compression therapy is usually key...

Sophia Auld

Nearly four in ten Australian aged care residents are prescribed an antipsychotic, despite the fact they often don’t work, have serious adverse effects, and are only recommended for managing dementia-related behaviours when other strategies have failed...

Prof Rukshen Weerasooriya

Brush up on your diagnostic skills and ECG knowledge with this quick quiz.

Lynnette Hoffman

Does BMI still have a role? Should we treat those with ‘pre-clinical’ obesity? Experts weigh in as focus shifts to improving health over losing weight…

Lynnette Hoffman

Most GPs support urgent care clinics, at least in principle…

Dr Philip Tong

A 77-year-old gentleman presents with painful, well-demarcated scaly eruption on the neck and chest.

Lynnette Hoffman

How the government’s 'free healthcare' promise could backfire on GPs…

Healthed

The playing field is a bit more level for women, just in time for the election...

Dr Brooke Nickel

When Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about having had a full-body MRI, she enthused that the test can be “life saving”, detecting diseases in the earliest stages before symptoms arise. What Kardashian neglected to say was there’s no evidence this expensive scan can bring benefits for healthy people.

Sophia Auld

Expert explains the research, with practical steps for managing complex presentations in GP.

Sophia Auld

While skin tears are a common GP presentation, doctors don’t get much training in how to manage them, and delayed or failed healing and progression to a chronic ulcer can occur....

Karinna Saxby

Here’s why we shouldn’t aim for 100%...