Why we can’t treat COVID-19 like the flu The lasting health problems coronavirus can cause must be considered, writes UWA epidemiologist Dr Zoë Hyde.
Increase in GP visits following mild COVID Following infection, patients visit their GP 20% more and require additional medicines than those who never had the virus, new research identifies.
Full clarity on telehealth extension not expected until Federal Budget But the Department of Health has revealed which mental health phone consultation MBS item numbers will remain beyond 30 June.
‘Long COVID’ may occur in more than half of all hospitalised cases: research Experts are concerned Australia will experience an epidemic of ‘long COVID’ if public health measures are prematurely relaxed.
Experts question study linking long COVID to deaths But emerging data suggests GPs need to follow up any of their patients who have had even milder, non-hospitalised forms of the disease.
Framework for GPs to manage ‘long COVID’ A recent GP20 presentation examines how GPs can recognise the signs and manage an emerging clinical concern.
Women aged 50–60 most at risk of ‘long COVID’: Research The condition is also more likely in those who, among other things, had more than five symptoms in the first week of illness.
Long-acting reversible contraceptive use has doubled in past decade What do GPs and patients need to know about these devices that have ‘much lower failure rates’ than condoms or the pill?
Post-acute COVID In this episode, Professor Tricia Greenhalgh, a GP, OBE and professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, discusses post-acute COVID-19 in primary care.
GPs and hospitals to tackle ‘long COVID’ together A new clinical pathway linking GPs, hospitals and coronavirus survivors is set to launch as an expert calls for focus on the long tail of the virus.