06 Nov 2024
Medicine and parenting: Significance of stress and burnout
RACGP NSW&ACT Chair Dr Rebekah Hoffman’s recently finished PhD thesis explores an all-too-familiar balancing act for many GPs.
06 Nov 2024
GP wins top award for ‘global leadership in health’
From Brisbane to New York, former UN Medical Director and Queensland GP Dr Jillann Farmer has been honoured with a UQ Alumni Award.
06 Nov 2024
‘Unprecedented’ demand on PBAC forces extra meeting
Its capacity has been exceeded by a ‘huge pipeline of new medicines’, after companies put forward a record number of submissions.
05 Nov 2024
GPs and politicians ‘need to be working together’
One of the RACGP GP Advocate Network’s newest members says being proactive to ‘protect what GPs do best’ has many rewards.
05 Nov 2024
Final Scope of Practice Review revealed
It found ‘virtually all’ health professions face barriers working to full scope, but the RACGP labelled the review ‘reductionist’, urging decisionmakers caution in considering its recommendations.
05 Nov 2024
‘Empowering’ Healthy Habits program changing lives
Doctors are urged to use the tool to help patients beyond the consulting room, with one GP saying it can ‘motivate behavioural change’.
01 Nov 2024
Record influx of new doctors mitigating GP shortage
In promising signs of regrowth for the healthcare landscape, more new doctors than ever before were registered to practise in Australia last year.
04 Nov 2024
Study: Time-restricted eating and type 2 diabetes
A new study has looked at the impact of time-restricted eating on blood glucose levels, focusing on when you eat, rather than what or how much.
04 Nov 2024
Could stricter salt ‘laws’ save lives?
Researchers say manufacturers should be made to reduce sodium levels in packaged food, saying it will bring ‘enormous reductions’ in CVD.
01 Nov 2024
Long COVID inflammation could impact heart: Study
Research has revealed why some patients endure ongoing cardiovascular symptoms, with one GP saying the findings ‘may ease the suffering’.