Facial palsy and neuropathy point to a serious syndrome
Jack is a 23-year-old retail worker who presents to his GP with five days of left facial palsy, with a working diagnosis of Bell’s palsy.…
Jack is a 23-year-old retail worker who presents to his GP with five days of left facial palsy, with a working diagnosis of Bell’s palsy.…
Genomic testing describes the assessment of genetic information across multiple genes, all of which, together or separately, can provide information about an individual’s health. Genomic…
Xie is a 41-year-old regular practice patient who attends for results of recent routine blood tests. She has a history of diet-controlled gestational diabetes mellitus…
Need to know: Everyone experiences functional symptoms — be it a twinge, tic, twitch or tickle. These occur frequently and are largely ignored. Occasionally, however,…
“You have got a community that thinks modern medicine is amazing and can tell them everything with certainty — and the reality is it cannot.”…
Doctors are once more caught in a testing and diagnostic minefield: the minefield laid by the increasing detection of incidentalomas by increasingly powerful imaging machines.…
Direct-to-patient medical tests are a growing business, but Australian researchers are warning that most tests achieve nothing. A University of Wollongong study found 484 direct-to-consumer…
An unusual spinal fracture led GP Dr John Manton to uncover a rare genetic disorder that would have probably gone undiagnosed without him. His patient…
Patients with a chronic productive cough should undergo regular spirometry for early detection of COPD and asthma, regardless of smoking status or duration, Australian doctors…
Anatomical pathology, cytopathology and genetic tests should be excluded from a government plan to remove the seven-day delay on patients viewing results in My Health Record, medical…
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