Aug 18, 2018
It turns out that many people use cannabis for medical purpose in Australia. A study of cannabis use for medical purposes in Australia conducted immediately prior to the 2016 legislation for frameworks for medical cannabis use was recently published in the Medical...
Aug 18, 2018
The story about statins and muscle damage continues to evolve. Idiopathic inflammatory myositis sometimes associated with statin use. Statin-associated autoimmune myopathy is a distinct clinical entity associated with specific autoantibodies against...
Aug 13, 2018
Truly food for thought from a recent study published in the prestigious Journal Science. Noting that deaths associated with prescribed opioids often occur among people with common conditions for which prescribing risks outweigh benefits, researchers hypothesised that...
Aug 13, 2018
The difficult issue of assessing fitness to drive has sat uncomfortably with many doctors, who on the one hand have a clear duty of care to protect their patients and the general public, and for the other part want to preserve the special relationship of trust and...
Aug 13, 2018
Remembering with great respect Dr Newman – he was the leading pioneer of methadone maintenance treatment as a therapeutic modality for management of opioid dependence and died recently as a result of a cycling accident in his native New York City. His vision...
Aug 10, 2018
The risk for cardiovascular events is thought to be increased amongst people with gout. In a study supported by Takeda (sponsors of the drug febuxostat), researchers compared cardiovascular outcomes with this agent to those observed with the more widely used agent,...
