Community-acquired pneumonia is a primary cause of hospitalisation, healthcare resource usage, morbidity and mortality. While randomised clinical trials support individual interventions such as adjunctive corticosteroid use, early progressive mobilisation, antibiotic...
Psychotic depression is a very difficult to treat psychiatric disorder with relatively poor prognosis for sustained remission. Antipsychotics are a mainstay of treatment but one question that has not been properly addressed is the requirement for extended treatment...
In Australia and elsewhere there is an increasing need for gender‐affirming hormone therapy in the medical management of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. Estimates suggest that 0.1–2.0% of the population are TGD in Australia, but medical education...
A year-long study in New Zealand has investigated the efficacy of combination budesonide–formoterol reliever therapy compared with maintenance budesonide plus as-needed terbutaline.. The study used an open-label randomised controlled design, and enrolled subjects aged...
A recently conducted pilot exercise in the UK has identified that a pharmacist-led telephone triage pilot at a GP surgery in London offers the opportunity to reduce waiting times for GP access and also to decrease the number of same-day GP appointments. The practice...