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A prominent trauma surgeon has criticised a group of paediatric doctors for backing an increase in pokie machines at a local pub in exchange for a $500,000 donation to their hospital.

Dr John Crozier

Heather Saxena27th February 2019

Many small pharmacy owners have no idea of their CSO trading terms, according a Brisbane pharmacist who is joining forces with other small pharmacy owners to win larger discounts.

Steve Flavel’s

Take-home naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses will be made available to more Australians through a two-year trial in a bid to curb the increase in deaths.

The drug will be offered at more places

A GP registrar training provider has sacked its long-serving CEO after a probe into its financial dealings with another organisation he was running.

General Practice Training Queensland (GPTQ)

Australia could be on the home stretch to ending rheumatic heart disease with a grant of $35 million from the Federal Government to develop a vaccine against Group A streptococcus.

The funding to

The new mandatory reporting regime for doctors, dubbed confusing and problematic by critics, has finally become law.

The battle to change the system has been running for years amid concerns that

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27th February 2019

The TGA is testing a range of ARB medications for contamination following the recall of two valsartan brands last year.

Mylan and Apotex withdrew their valsartan products after regulators found they

The number one reason for overprescribing tests, procedures or treatments, is not being able to get information or results from another doctor, according to non-GP specialists responding to in a NPS

There may be unanticipated risks if patients treated with radioactive drugs die and their bodies are cremated, a case report suggests.

After learning one of their patients had died and been sent for

People with dementia in nursing homes are prescribed more risperidone, buprenorphine and trimethoprim than their peers without cognitive problems, an Australian study suggests.

However, they also

A Darwin surgeon who held a knife to the throat of a taxi driver in a road-rage incident has received a jail sentence, but will be allowed to spend it in home detention.

Orthopaedic surgeon Dr