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Chimps no chumps on first-aid front

1 day ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Grant Holloway

Could this be a solution to the UCC staffing dilemma? Back in the late 1970s, your Back Page scribbler studied a book called “In the Shadow of Man” by Dr Jane Goodall, which detailed how chimpanzees in the wild would fashion and modify natural objects to use as tools. This was groundbreaking because, at the time, most folks thought tool-making in this sophisticated sense was something only humans got up to.
Postmodern memes to comment on society

2 days ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Talia Meyerowitz-Katz

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Eosinophils could predict covid severity in elderly patients with COPD

4 days ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Ruby Prosser Scully

Testing blood eosinophils at admission could have ‘significant prognostic implications’, say researchers. Elderly COPD patients with a blood eosinophil count of 150 cells/μL or more on admission to hospital for covid are significantly more likely to develop respiratory and systemic complications than those without COPD.
Obesity drug leads to 25% weight loss in a third of patients

4 days ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Ruby Prosser Scully

Tirzepatide shows substantial reductions in weight and waist circumference reductions in a comparison trial with semaglutide. Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly) may surpass semaglutide (Wegovy, Novo Nordisk) for weight loss in patients with obesity and no diabetes, according to new research in the NEJM.
Diabetes a bigger problem than we thought

4 days ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Penny Durham

The true rates may be much higher than current Australian data suggests – especially for type 2 diabetes. Rates of diabetes in Australia, especially type 2, are substantially higher than estimated thanks to under-enrolment in the national registry. A team led by Emma Cox from the School of Public Health at Sydney University developed an algorithm to more accurately assess the burden of diabetes in NSW by using linked administrative data.
Patients or consumers? Queensland’s cosmetic injectables industry trials

1 week ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Holly Payne

Nurse-led injectables clinics in Queensland can no longer hold stock of Botox and filler onsite. For better or worse, the small shift will change the industry. Queensland’s clarified cosmetic injectables rules have plunged hundreds of nurse-led aesthetics clinics into financial uncertainty. Experts are split on whether that’s a good thing.
Pharmacy flu vax move a ‘missed opportunity’for GPs

1 week ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Holly Payne

As anti-vax sentiments grow, the medical association is calling for general practice to be kept at the centre of immunisations. Amid what experts are calling a “dire” level of vaccine uptake ahead of flu season, pharmacists in NSW have been given the green light to immunise children in an effort to relieve pressure on general practice. AMA NSW council member and former president Dr Michael Bonning called the move a “missed opportunity” for GPs to address vaccine hesitancy among families.
Penny for your thoughts? What thoughts?

1 week ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Grant Holloway

Relax. Zoning out happens to other folks all the time as well. Do you ever walk into a room, look around vaguely then try to remember what it is you thought you wanted to do there in the first place? Or have you searched the house vainly for your glasses before eventually realising you are, in fact, already wearing them? For your ageing correspondent, this is becoming a more frequent occurrence – something his parents used to refer to as “having a senior moment”.
GP PMS vendors fast approaching a point of security discontinuity

1 week ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Jeremy Knibbs

Government requirements for significantly enhanced security and data-sharing capability are driving business challenges for our major GP vendors which will likely flush out as challenges for practices as well. Best Practice Software, widely believed to have 65-70% share of the GP practice management software market in Australia, has announced that it wants to pursue a more “ambitious” cloud strategy.
How to prevent breast cancer

1 week ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Ruby Prosser Scully

New guidance for GPs highlights the best tools and interventions to help women. Prevention strategies such as assessing risk factors, chemoprevention and surgery are vital in the fight to reduce the rising incidence of breast cancer, says an Australian expert. GPs are on the frontline when it comes to initiating these strategies, outlined in new guidance in the AJGP.