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2 days ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
A woman’s attempt to rescue a wild platypus left her in excruciating pain and requiring surgery in a rare case of envenomation reported in the Medical Journal of Australia.
The 62-year-old presented to ED with severe pain just two hours after handling the monotreme, according to clinicians from the Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania.
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2 days ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
Doctors can diagnose endometriosis with transvaginal ultrasound or MRI and start hormonal treatments to manage symptoms while diagnostic investigations are underway, updated guidelines say.
RANZCOG’s practice guideline update, the first since 2021, emphasises non-invasive diagnosis and early treatment. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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5 days ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
Tirzepatide leads to greater weight loss than semaglutide in adults with obesity but without type 2 diabetes, a head-to-head trial suggests.
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the SURMOUNT-5 trial involved 751 participants randomly assigned to the maximum tolerated dose of tirzepatide (10mg or 15mg) or semaglutide (1.7mg or 2.4mg) and treated for 72 weeks.
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1 week ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
“I was in the operating room and the surgical doctor popped his head over the drape and said, ‘I thought I recognised your voice — you’re the GP Lyf Hacks guy!'”
As Dr David Lam’s pandemic lockdown hobby morphed into a podcast with 22,000 listeners, it’s made him somewhat of a medical celebrity. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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1 week ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
Radiologists will report pleural effusions, abdominal lesions, coronary artery calcifications and reduced bone density under the new lung cancer screening program that starts in 57 days.
The program will screen asymptomatic adults aged 50-70 who currently smoke or have quit smoking in the past 10 years, and who have a 30 pack-year smoking history, every two years.
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2 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
This soft and lobulated buttock lesion grew to mammoth proportions over 40 years before the patient raised it with his doctors.
The US man, aged 67, said the lesion had developed after a small injury when he was a child, and was misdiagnosed as a genital wart during his 20s. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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2 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
When Australia missed its target of treating 20% of chronic hepatitis B patients in 2022, there was one exception.
Even in 2023, the national treatment rate was just 12.6%, according to a report by the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM) and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.
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2 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
For decades, those with medical aspirations have been required to demonstrate their abilities to rotate black dots and other miscellaneous geometric shapes with their minds.
The skill was meant to demonstrate that they had the intellectual chops to make it through medical school. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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2 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
Every retracted study may influence the results of three systematic reviews, each of which subsequently infects three clinical practice guidelines, researchers warn.
Writing in The BMJ, they say this “contamination chain” means junk science influences doctors long after it is identified and called out. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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3 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Mohana Basu
More than 30 pain medicine societies are calling on The BMJ to retract a clinical practice guideline that advises against interventional procedures for chronic spine pain.
The guideline, part of the BMJ Rapid Recommendations series, recommends that procedures such as epidural injections of anaesthetic or steroids should not be offered to adults with chronic axial or radicular spine pain that is not associated with cancer or inflammatory arthropathy, outside of clinical trials.
