Amanda Sheppeard

Longer consultations, increasingly complex patients and an expanding scope of care are putting pressure on general practice, despite improvements in GP satisfaction and patient access, the RACGP's Health of the Nation report reveals.

Registered nurses could gain PBS prescribing rights for more medicines, but the committee has drawn the line at complex conditions and high-risk treatments.

Experts have welcomed plans to strengthen sunscreen testing and manufacturing standards but warn that better regulation alone won't address Australia's skin cancer burden.

Australian researchers have found that commonly used melanoma risk prediction tools can identify people at higher risk, but most underestimate their actual chances of developing the disease.

MSAC has backed allowing dermatologists to supervise ECP treatment for rare skin cancers and chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Australian researchers are calling for planned maintenance treatment after finding rituximab achieved remission in most pemphigus patients, but half subsequently relapsed.

Long waiting lists and rising costs are pushing more complex care into general practice, with GPs increasingly taking on work traditionally performed by specialists and hospitals.

A world-first phase 3 trial has shown that adding a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine to standard immunotherapy significantly reduces melanoma recurrence, potentially ushering in a new era of cancer treatment.

Pausing biologics or JAK inhibitors for two weeks failed to improve vaccine antibody responses but more than doubled the odds of disease flare in a randomised trial.

Doctors have joined nurses in opposing proposed staffing cuts to the Royal Hobart Hospital's Emergency Medical Unit, warning the move will worsen access block, ambulance ramping, and patient outcomes.