Sep 2, 2019
NHS data from the UK suggests that thousands of patients are potentially at risk as a result of the prescription of anticoagulants concurrently with NSAIDs and other drugs that influence platelet function but without gastroprotection. During the same period there were...
Aug 31, 2019
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...
Aug 29, 2019
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...
Aug 25, 2019
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...
Aug 25, 2019
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...
Aug 25, 2019
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...
