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Australia
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    • Health & Medicine

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    Recent Articles

    medicalrepublic.com.au

    Skeptics bent out of shape as cancer patients offered reiki

    The Cancer Council of WA has earned a glare from the pedantic uncle of Australian science promoters.
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    COPD clinical care standard stresses non-drug options

    Pulmonary rehab is an effective but underutilised way to improve quality of life for the many people living with this disease.
    medicalrepublic.com.au

    Preventing hearing loss key to dementia protection

    Hearing aids do not appear to slow the cognitive decline associated with hearing loss.
    medicalrepublic.com.au

    Men in pain depend on opioids, women not so much

    A new study uses naloxone to explore why men get more relief from opioids – exo- and endogenous – than women.
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    MBS now covers heart failure blood test

    But you only get one NT-proBNP per patient per year.
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    Covid still our most lethal respiratory virus

    Older people continue to bear the brunt of mortality.
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    Don’t risk these drugs in type 1 diabetes patients

    Although GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors can improve quality of life, it's dangerous territory for GPs.
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    Expanded PBS listing for SGLT2i for type 2 diabetes

    Dapagliflozin is now more broadly subsidised following a price change. Also, two insulin delivery devices have important defects.
    medicalrepublic.com.au

    What Ozempic is and isn’t good for

    A study in US veterans has enumerated the health benefits and risks of taking semaglutide and friends.
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    Metformin prevents diabetes, with or without Med diet

    People with metabolic syndrome were much less likely to progress to T2DM in a new study, but no other diseases were affected.
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    Varenicline can help youth quit vaping

    A study from Harvard bolsters the evidence base for pharmacotherapy to get young people off e-cigarettes.