Professor Nick Shackel: What’s in store for liver disease in 2019?

Point-of-care hepatitis C testing, new combination therapies for liver cancer, and understanding the role of the gut microbiome in fatty liver disease are just some of the promises around liver disease in 2019. With rates of obesity as high as 50-60%...

Point-of-care hepatitis C testing, new combination therapies for liver cancer, and understanding the role of the gut microbiome in fatty...

Medicolegal

Specialists at legal risk if patients do not have advance care directives

Specialists are at risk of legal action if their patients do not have advance care directives in place outlining their end of life requirements, experts warn. Patients and their carers could potentially sue for assault if given inappropriate treatment at the...

Specialists are at risk of legal action if their patients do not have advance care directives in place outlining their...

Medical politics

Time-based fee structure proposed for specialists in major MBS item overhaul

A proposed overhaul of MBS items for specialists will shed more than 60% of attendance items and replace them with new time-based standard attendance schedule fees. In the first major restructure of attendance items for specialists since the 1970s, the MBS...

A proposed overhaul of MBS items for specialists will shed more than 60% of attendance items and replace them with...

Medical politics

Public hospitals and Medicare Review on the AMA’s Budget wish list

The AMA's pre-Budget submission is calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to commit to adequate public hospital funding and guarantee the integrity of Medicare. In its submission for the 2019-20 Federal Budget ahead of the May election, the AMA says there...

The AMA's pre-Budget submission is calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to commit to adequate public hospital funding and guarantee...