Listeners and experts discuss on the downsides of medical professionals sending patients off for unnecessary tests and investigations, and what happens when you go bush to unplug from life's complications.
Clinicians tend to think of diseases as being immutable, existing in nature like elements of the periodic table or the planets. The medical literature reinforces this myth, implying that changes are a result of increasing scientific knowledge moving medicine toward better and more accurate descriptions [...]
In patients with symptoms of stable angina, cardiac stress testing and angiography have been recommended to evaluate for inducible myocardial ischemia and obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Walter and colleagues investigated whether high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) tests could be introduced in this diagnostic pathway.
Increasing numbers of patients and clinicians are undertaking low cost genetic testing in asymptomatic people to identify genetic variants that might predict risk of developing diseases. By early 2018, an estimated one in 25 citizens of the United States had undergone genetic testing, more than [...]
There’s a need to better balance clinicians’ evidence-based bias and older patients’ value-based preferences in shared decision-making, write a collaborative of researchers and advocates from Queensland and New South Wales...
Do diet, physical activity and contraceptive use change after receiving a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)? Using longitudinal data 12 months apart, young women newly diagnosed with PCOS were more likely to stop using contraception but did not change their physical activity or vegetable intake.
Before determining the pain research priorities for a country, a comprehensive literature review of existing research is warranted. We aimed to identify and describe the extent and nature of pain research performed in Nepal, identify existing knowledge and significant knowledge gaps, and provide recommendations for [...]
Guidelines now discourage opioid analgesics for chronic noncancer pain because the benefits frequently do not outweigh the harms. We aimed to determine the proportion of patients with chronic noncancer pain who are prescribed an opioid, the types prescribed and factors associated with prescribing. Database searches [...]
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrine disorder affecting reproductive-aged women, with prevalence estimates ranging from 4 to 22.5% depending on the population studied and diagnostic criteria used. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore clinicians’ experiences and views about the challenges and [...]
Our new research among women and clinicians found confusion over the name PCOS, limited evidence about the condition, and large amount of misinformation online fed into common misconceptions about PCOS. These myths and assumptions are harming women and standing in the way of appropriate health care.