Practice Connect
Stay informed with Practice Connect, your monthly digest of healthcare’s most relevant topics. We deliver evidence-based insights on controversial health debates, prevention strategies, and practical clinical guidance to help you navigate patient conversations and stay current with Australian healthcare developments.
Does checking your phone reshape your brain?
Teenagers spend on average over 4 hours per day on a mobile device. A lot has already been written on the perils of too much screen time – that it’s...
Why women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease
Women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers have long been looking for the reason why, and it may be due...
Apathy as a predictor of dementia or its severity
Dementia has overtaken coronary heart disease as the leading cause of premature death in older Australians. Mild cognitive impairment, or MCI is a...
Intermittent fasting and inflammation: The effect on healthy ageing
In recent years intermittent fasting (IF) has grown in popularity. It’s an eating plan which alternates between states of fasting and windows of...
Medicare reform: How to stay ahead of the game
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...
5th COVID vaccine dose announced and Long COVID
ATAGI, the advisory group on immunisation has recently announced its recommendations about the 5th dose. ATAGI recommendsa 2023 COVID-19 vaccine...
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