The updated McDonald Diagnostic Criteria for MS have now been published, offering clinicians new tools to support earlier diagnosis, reduce uncertainty, and improve outcomes for Australians affected by the disease. Adoption into clinical practice is expected to follow as awareness and access to diagnostic tools grow.
I write in support of the timely article by Stephen and Sarah Duckett (“Should there be a delay in releasing diagnostic results to patients?"), which identifies the mandatory 7-day delay as a policy that warrants re-examination. The authors have laid out the foundational issues, but the problems with this delay extend even further when viewed through the additional lenses. These principles are particularly important today, as the healthcare system rightly encourages individuals to move from being passive recipients of care to active managers of their own wellbeing.
The Brisbane-based team quantifying mental disorders for the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) has identified that somatoform disorders — a group of mental disorders characterised by physical pain with psychological causes — are likely to be second only in mental health to depression burden of disease.
One in five engineered stone workers have high self-reported rates of asthma, even if they don’t have silicosis
Tenacity and optimism. These seem to be the two qualities that climate advocates have as they prepare to charge into the 30th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), COP30, from 10 – 21 November.
As our population ages, so too do our doctors. But ageing physicians should still play an active and leading role in our health care workforce, writes Steve Robson.
The latest edition of the Australian Asthma Handbook offers pathways to improvement for asthma control, urging clinicians and their patients to move beyond over-reliance on SABA inhalers in favour of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)-containing preventer inhalers.
Amid unprecedented medical workforce pressures, many doctors are rethinking their futures. Yet new WHS laws provide the tools to protect our wellbeing and our careers — if we use them. This piece urges every doctor to lead by example: know the law, speak up about poor working conditions and other abuses safely, and advocate for better health system resourcing — together.
Omega 3 supplements can improve pregnancy outcomes: and a new trial shows how routine screening and supplementation can be implemented.
