The importance of culturally appropriate healthcare spaces To mark National Reconciliation Week, newsGP looks at the importance of cultural safety in general practice and highlights some useful resources for GPs and practice teams.
Let’s talk about inflammatory bowel disease Crohn’s and Colitis Australia is encouraging people to open up about inflammatory bowel disease and leave behind the associated stigma.
No evidence acupuncture during IVF increases chances of pregnancy A new study has cast doubts on acupuncture’s effects on a woman’s chances of having a baby through IVF.
Study shows psychiatrists may be missing training to help people facing family violence The first study into Australian and New Zealand psychiatrists’ knowledge and preparedness to respond to domestic violence cases has found half of respondents had received fewer than two hours of specific training on how to deal with the issue.
Children of disadvantaged families more often prescribed antipsychotic drugs Australian children and teens from disadvantaged families are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotic medication than others in the same age group, a new study has found.
How cutting back on mood-altering medication may have given one patient his life back Dr Hester Wilson, GP and Chair of the RACGP’s Specific Interests Addiction Medicine network, reflects on the challenges of helping a patient get off his long-term medications.
The spectrum is not an exclusively male domain: Recognising autism in females Gendered assumptions about autism may result in many girls and women going undiagnosed.
Trial designer reflects on Australia’s first music festival pill-testing service Taking pills at a music festival should never cost a person their life, emergency physician Dr David Caldicott told newsGP.
The high cost of brain injury as a result of family violence A landmark new report from Brain Injury Australia shines a light on family-violence-related brain injury, and points to a pathway for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
Australia’s health gap is narrowing – but not fast enough Focusing on health will not be enough to eliminate the 10-year difference between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, a new report has found.