‘Patients don’t need to fear asthma’: Major update to asthma handbook The National Asthma Council has launched a comprehensive update to its guidelines for diagnosis and management of the disease in primary care.
Commercial sensitivity or patient protection? Secrecy and medicine safety Researchers have identified an information gap between pharmacological companies and Australian clinicians on the potential safety risks of medicines.
New paper discusses barriers to optimal asthma management Issues relating to asthma management include poor self-management by patients and a lack of public awareness.
New guidelines on sexual boundaries MDA National medico-legal adviser Janet Harry looks at the revised guidelines.
New national guideline provides ‘very clear process’ for diagnosis of autism GP and autism advocate Dr James Best believes the guideline will prove helpful for patients, their families, and the GPs and other clinicians conducting assessments.
The good, the bad and the dangerous: Advising on healthcare apps How can GPs and patients distinguish the helpful from the useless – or even harmful – among the ever-increasing flood of healthcare apps?
Managing de-implementation in general practice New guidelines arrive with great fanfare, but what happens to older recommendations that become obsolete? newsGP talks de-implementation with Dr Justin Coleman.
TGA changes offer greater protection from misleading advertising The TGA intends its updated code to provide consumers improved protection from misleading advertising of therapeutic goods.
Greg Hunt proposes changes to reporting scheme to help address medicine shortages The Federal Health Minister wants to make the reporting scheme mandatory rather than voluntary, with legal definitions of medicine shortage and penalties for non-compliance.
Unfounded claims about complementary medicine put patients in danger: RACGP Proposed legislation to legalise un-scientific claims on complementary medicines will place Australian patients at risk and must not come into force, Chair of the RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care Dr Evan Ackermann told newsGP.