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The federally funded, fully bulk billed urgent care clinics cost at least $200 a head – and general practice will pay the price...

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Compression therapy is usually key...

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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...

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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…

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

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

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

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.

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

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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....

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A 44-year-old woman presents to you with this longstanding venous leg ulcer that developed 9 years earlier. The patient is dressing it herself with gauze. What is the most important factor in healing this venous leg ulcer from the list below...

The federally funded, fully bulk billed urgent care clinics cost at least $200 a head – and general practice will pay the price...

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Compression therapy is usually key...

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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...

Clinical Articles iconClinical Articles

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…

Clinical Articles iconClinical Articles

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

Clinical Articles iconClinical Articles

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

Clinical Articles iconClinical Articles

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

Clinical Articles iconClinical Articles

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.

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

Clinical Articles iconClinical Articles

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....

Clinical Articles iconClinical Articles

A 44-year-old woman presents to you with this longstanding venous leg ulcer that developed 9 years earlier. The patient is dressing it herself with gauze. What is the most important factor in healing this venous leg ulcer from the list below...

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