Funding boost for dementia research The $21 million includes support for a general practice-focused project investigating a holistic approach to dementia prevention.
Joe’s funeral: How little we know about anyone Dr Chris Hogan reflects on how much we don’t know about other people – and wonders what precious stories are being lost.
Lifestyle choices may help combat genetic risk of dementia: Study People at high risk of dementia who adopt healthy habits could be 32% less likely to contract the disease than those with an unhealthy lifestyle.
GPs ‘central’ to reducing polypharmacy Almost one million Australians aged 70 and over take five or more medications daily, placing them at increased risk of unwanted side effects, more frequent hospital admissions and falls.
Professor Anthony Radford: A passion for general practice Professor Radford reflects on an almost 60-year career which has taken him throughout Australia and all around the world.
GP visits can help avoid health ‘black hole’ New research finds the average person aged 40 and over has five unidentified health problems that can be reversed with early intervention.
GPs could save the health budget $1.5 billion by stopping lower urgency cases flooding emergency Lower urgency cases are filling up hospital emergency departments around the nation. Could GPs solve the problem?
What’s behind the recent tensions between pharmacy and general practice? The ongoing push to widen pharmacy scope of practice is concerning many in general practice.
Superbug warning as states look at expanding pharmacy Suggestions the Queensland Government exposed the community to a major health risk follow revelations that WA may increase pharmacy scope of practice.
‘The future of general practice’: Practice-based research networks Michelle Guppy conducts research with ‘questions relevant to GPs, being generated by GPs, and investigated on general practice patients’.