Clipping of no benefit for routine polypectomy

Prophylactic endoscopic clipping does not prevent delayed postpolypectomy bleeding (DPPB) in the context of screening colonoscopy. According to a large Canadian study of 8,366 colonoscopies involving polypectomy, only 95 (1.1%) led to delayed bleeding events. There were 50 bleeding events in...

Prophylactic endoscopic clipping does not prevent delayed postpolypectomy bleeding (DPPB) in the context of screening colonoscopy. According to a large Canadian...

Medicines

PPIs in Australia: used for too long at too high a dose

Patterns of PPI use in Australia between 2013 and 2016 confirm the need for PBS restrictions such as those introduced last year especially around use of higher doses and the number of allowed repeats. Dispensing data from about 4.4...

Patterns of PPI use in Australia between 2013 and 2016 confirm the need for PBS restrictions such as those...

Public health

A gastroenterologist’s open letter on their hopes and fears for COVID-19

Like other doctors, gastroenterologists are going through a difficult period of anxiety and confusion due to the rapidly developing threat of COVID-19 disease and the enormous impact it is having on work and personal lives. Here we reprint an open...

Like other doctors, gastroenterologists are going through a difficult period of anxiety and confusion due to the rapidly developing threat...

Infections

Nurse practitioners can prescribe DAAs for hepatitis C

In another step forward to help meet WHO hepatitis C elimination targets by 2030, authorised Nurse Practitioners (NPs) can now prescribe direct-acting antivirals under the Section 100 Highly Specialised Drugs (HSD) program. The change, effective from 1 April, also allows NPs...

In another step forward to help meet WHO hepatitis C elimination targets by 2030, authorised Nurse Practitioners (NPs) can now...