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Commercial sensitivity or patient protection? Secrecy and medicine safety

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.


GPs report worried patients giving infants peanuts or eggs in hospital car parks

GPs report worried patients giving infants peanuts or eggs in hospital car parks

Concerned parents are parking outside of hospitals and GP clinics in an effort to mitigate risk when giving their children peanuts or eggs for the first time.


AHPRA releases its annual report

AHPRA releases its annual report

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has provided facts and figures across a number of key areas of healthcare.


Global Handwashing Day: Clean hands are a recipe for health

Global Handwashing Day: Clean hands are a recipe for health

To mark Global Handwashing Day, the Food Safety Information Council has launched tips on how to keep hands clean to help reduce the 4.1 million cases of food poisoning in Australia each year.


Push for better food labels to reduce risk of anaphylaxis

Push for better food labels to reduce risk of anaphylaxis

Researchers want food labelling regulations tightened after their study found some people with food allergies had anaphylactic reactions to packaged foods.


Superfoods: What is all the hype about and are they really super?

Superfoods: What is all the hype about and are they really super?

Dietitian Chloe McLeod examines the popular notion of superfoods.


Obesity expert questions government–industry food reformulation push

Obesity expert questions government–industry food reformulation push

The Obesity Policy Coalition executive director has questioned the Federal Government’s industry partnership on voluntary reformulation of junk food.


Preparing medico-legal reports: What GPs need to know

Preparing medico-legal reports: What GPs need to know

For the first of a series on legal matters in general practice, newsGP spoke with two experts about the best way to prepare medico-legal documents – and how to avoid the pitfalls.


Examining the latest research on preventing food allergies in children

Examining the latest research on preventing food allergies in children

Australia has one of the highest rates of food allergies for both children and adults in the world. Dietitian Melanie McGrice looks at the latest research in the prevention of allergies in children.


Food security and nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Food security and nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

In the second of a series focusing on the coming third edition of the ‘National guide to a preventive health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’, newsGP examines the health effects of food insecurity.


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