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Feb 26, 2025 | 
thelimbic.com | Amanda Cameron
Physician training in the UK is in disarray after hundreds of would-be specialists have just learned that they were given the wrong exam results by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in 2023.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Fiona Cassie |Amanda Cameron
Funding for urgent care registrar training in 2025 is in limbo with the training body waiting to hear if its request for new workplace training fundin
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Fiona Cassie |Martin Johnston |Amanda Cameron
Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and options for personalised care, appropriate investigation and treatment
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thelimbic.com | Amanda Cameron
Fitness-to-fly discussions with older people and patients with cardiorespiratory disease should include a warning about drinking alcohol before and while flying, say aerospace medicine experts. The advice, published in Thorax, is based on recent research showing that onboard alcohol consumption may be an “underestimated” health risk as it exaggerates the physiological stress of commercial air travel during sleep.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
thelimbic.com | Amanda Cameron
Fitness-to-fly discussions with older people and patients with cardiorespiratory disease should include a warning about drinking alcohol before and while flying, say aerospace medicine experts. The advice, published in Thorax, is based on recent research showing that onboard alcohol consumption may be an “underestimated” health risk as it exaggerates the physiological stress of commercial air travel during sleep.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
thelimbic.com | Amanda Cameron
Thrombotic and other cardiovascular events were generally less frequent after COVID-19 vaccination than before or without vaccination, except for known rare events, according to a longitudinal study of the adult population in England. The UK authors said the findings offered “reassurance” about the cardiovascular safety of such vaccines, regardless of the brand or whether the dose was part of the primary course or a booster.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
thelimbic.com | Amanda Cameron
Moderate doses of inhaled corticosteroids more than double the risk of cardiovascular events, pulmonary embolism and pneumonia, and high doses increase the risk even further, researchers report. The authors of the UK observational study [link here] said the findings highlighted the importance of adhering to current guidelines that recommend using the lowest effective dose of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) to mitigate the risk of adverse events.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
thelimbic.com | Amanda Cameron
Doctors who treated the first eight cases of artificial stone silicosis in the UK are calling on the government follow Australia’s example in banning the silica-dust generating material. The team from the Royal Brompton Hospital, London and other hospitals in south England made the call in a bid to stem a tide of cases that is expected in the next few years.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
thelimbic.com | Amanda Cameron
A study has provided long awaited evidence of the effectiveness of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) in patients with common immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. The observational study showed that the vaccine protected against hospitalisation and death from pneumonia, and reduced primary-care visits for lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) requiring antibiotics, in this group of patients.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Martin Johnston |Stephen Forbes |Amanda Cameron
+News In print Hospital phone call to replace ‘GP to follow up lab results’ To ease GPs’ inbox burden, routine copying of results will stop and monitoring or follow up is to be agreed with a phone call to the primary care recipient [Image: Dragos Condrea on iStock] Practices are being asked to set up special phone access for hospital doctors to contact GPs over patient test results that need attention, rather tha Oops, please login or sign up to read more.
