Monash University researchers say daily low-dose aspirin does not lower overall cancer risk in healthy older adults. The ASPREE project followed 19,114 Australian and American adults, with Australians...
GPs in Australia are stepping up to counter medical misinformation online. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and other health voices are warning patients about misleading o...
Findings from 2026 General Practice Business Viability Insights, produced by Hunter New England Centre Coast PHN, show staffing remains a core problem and administration is a heavy burden. About one t...
Australia’s Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs will run a wide review of how recent Medicare reforms affect rural primary care. The inquiry will assess the 1 November 2025 changes...
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen warn social media chatter about low testosterone shapes patient views. Mass screening for low testosterone is not clinically warranted. Many healthy men h...
The Australian Medical Association warns Medicare not to restrict GP access to MBS item 55278, which covers renal duplex ultrasound with B mode imaging and integrated Doppler flow analysis of renal an...
The Australian government has postponed the full rollout of the Thriving Kids program. The program, a $2 billion initiative designed to ease pressure on the NDIS and provide early support for children...
Professor Louise Stone lays out a blunt view of general practice in Australia. She uses the Cynefin framework to map patient problems into four habitats. The simplest are known knowns: clear diagnoses...
Birregurra, a rural Victoria town of about 1000 people, currently has only one GP at Birregurra Medical Centre. The clinic sits roughly two hours from Melbourne, and Dr Jared Kilday is leading a push...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners reports a clear rise in patients presenting with workplace related mental health concerns. In a newsGP poll, 82% of GPs said they had seen more pa...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is refreshing its website and member portal. It is asking members from all career stages to provide input so the new digital space fits real needs...
A large Australian randomised trial, MIST+, tested whether a 3-month plan of intranasal saline could serve as a true first-line therapy for paediatric obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (OSDB). Th...
Heat has become a steady part of Australia’s health picture. An RACGP expert says heatwaves place extra pressure on health services, especially general practice. Dr Nicole Sleeman, chair of RACGP clim...
Charles Darwin University is rolling out a new medical program in the Northern Territory. The Menzies Medical Program will welcome a first cohort of 42 students on 9 February, including two Aboriginal...
Apple Watch will now offer hypertension alerts in Australia after the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the feature in December. Apple expects more than one million people with undiagnosed hyp...
The Australian government will create a National Medicines Record within My Health Record. All prescribers will be required to record medicines related information, including drugs dispensed via teleh...
The Senate committee managing rural and regional affairs has opened a formal inquiry into rural Medicare access. The terms of reference focus on the financial viability of independently owned rural GP...
The federal government has announced reforms to create a National Medicines Record. This will give patients, prescribers and pharmacists a complete medicines history across digital health tools. As a...
Birregurra, a small rural town about 130 kilometres southwest of Melbourne, has a population around 1000 and currently relies on a single GP, Dr Jared Kilday. He is trying to attract another doctor to...
The RACGP has lodged an accreditation submission with the Australian Medical Council for a Rural Generalist Fellowship training program. This follows last year’s recognition of rural generalism as a s...
