LDCT screening finds lung cancers in asbestos-exposed patients
Almost two-thirds of asbestos-exposed patients with lung cancer would not meet the proposed criteria for a national screening program, an Australian study suggests. Last year, the Medical Services Advisory Committee recommended the Federal Government implement a national lung cancer screening program using low dose computed tomography (LDCT) that would cover long-term...
ON DEMAND: Severe asthma - a road to remission?
Watch again as experts discuss pivotal research and practice developments in severe asthma from 2022 and consider the horizon for 2023, with a focus on treatment selection, measuring response, the concept of remission and its impacts on management decision making. ...
ON DEMAND: E-cigarettes - Threat or promise?
Watch again as a panel of expert respiratory physicians share their knowledge and views on the different approaches to tobacco control in Australia and the UK and debate the place of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation. Hosted by Associate Professor Natasha...
Patient details hacked in major cancer study
The personal details of more than 1000 participants in Australia’s biggest skin cancer study are feared to have been compromised in a previously undisclosed cybersecurity breach last November. QIMR Berghofer says the breach potentially exposed the names, addresses and Medicare numbers...
The personal details of more than 1000 participants in Australia’s biggest skin cancer study are feared to have been compromised...
How to tackle defamatory online reviews: medicolegal expert
Doctors concerned about negative online reviews are often best reaching out to the patient in private or simply ignoring the review, a lawyer has told a medicolegal congress. Speaking in Sydney last week, Samantha Pillay from Barry Nilsson Lawyers warned that...
Doctors concerned about negative online reviews are often best reaching out to the patient in private or simply ignoring the...
GINA missing several co-morbidities strongly linked with asthma
Several co-morbidities strongly linked with asthma are missing from GINA guidelines on the management of the disease and should be included in future recommendations, a group of researchers say. The finding is based on results of the first-ever meta-analysis...
Several co-morbidities strongly linked with asthma are missing from GINA guidelines on the management of the disease and should...