In recent years intermittent fasting (IF) has grown in popularity. It’s an eating plan which alternates between states of fasting and windows of eating. Intermittent fasters repeat this pattern, depending on the type of program they’re doing, every day (16:8) or twice...
General Practice is in a difficult place and the biggest changes in decades are about to occur. All practices need to consider if you are doing everything you can to maxmise value for your practice and patients. In a recent General Practice in a Rapidly Changing...
ATAGI, the advisory group on immunisation has recently announced its recommendations about the 5th dose. ATAGI recommendsa 2023 COVID-19 vaccine booster dose for adults in the following groups, if their last COVID-19 vaccine dose or confirmed infection (whichever is...
Something unusual is happening to liver cancer rates globally, especially in developed nations such as Australia. While the incidence of many other cancers tend to be decreasing – as we get a better handle on risk factors like alcohol and tobacco use –...
Australia is a global success story when it comes to reducing rates of smoking – in 1998 nearly 30 per cent of people smoked, while three decades later that figure has been cut to 13 per cent. But in just the past decade, the number of people trying out or using...
