Specialists enjoy more hospitality

High cost prescribing medical specialities enjoy the most pharmaceutical company hospitality including oncologists, cardiologists and psychiatrists, a Newcastle study in PLoS Medicine has found.

Some fare better after stroke

Stroke patients are likely to have better outcomes if they are younger and have a higher IQ, a one year study of 125 patients by researchers at the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, has found.

Aging and Mental Health (13: 693)

No sexual problems after vasectomy

Sexual problems are no more common in men who have had a vasectomy than in nonvasectomised men, according to a study of almost 3400 Australian men, of whom 25% had a vasectomy.

Journal of Sexual Health (online 29 October)

Case conference reluctance

GPs are reluctant to engage in multidisciplinary case conferencing in residential aged care facilities, a new study finds, because of problems such as role confusion, isolation and a lack of lack of a collaborative culture among other participants. Australian Health Review. 33: 566–571