Sophie Cousins
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 7
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- Sep 9, 2026
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Bowel Cancer Under 50: Rethinking Screening and Diagnosis (opens the original)
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If there is one thing that Australians aged 45 years or older should do, it is to collect a fecal sample, according to Eleonora Feletto, PhD, associate professor of medicine and health at the University of Sydney. “It can be off-putting to do, and it is a weekend event because we are one of only a few countries in the world that require two samples across different days,” Feletto, who is also a principal research fellow and cancer epidemiologist at the university, told Medscape News Australia. “
Shingles in Young Australians Prompts Vaccination Discussion (opens the original)
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Shingles cases among younger Australians have gradually increased over the past two decades, prompting experts to ask what is happening. In 2006, Australia reported 299 shingles cases among adults aged 25-49 years. The number of cases in this group was 1877 in 2015 and 5249 in 2020. So far this year, 2493 cases have been reported to Australia’s National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System. However, the true burden of the disease is unknown because herpes zoster is not a notifiable disease in
Is Chronic Pain Guidance Delivering What NICE Promised? (opens the original)
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A few years ago, when pain specialist Blair Smith was working at NHS Tayside’s Pain Service, he and colleagues received an influx of referrals from GPs asking them to take over the management of some patients. The GPs had — because of new guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) — stopped prescribing painkillers to manage chronic primary pain and their patients needed help. “We got referrals from GPs telling us they had stopped prescribing say, tramadol, becau
Patients Are Self-Prescribing DoxyPEP. Is This a Problem? (opens the original)
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When researcher Vita Jongen, PhD, from the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Public Health Service Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands, set out to understand the informal public use of the antibiotic doxycycline for syphilis prevention, she was surprised by what she found. Not only were many people obtaining the antibiotic without a prescription, but she and colleagues were surprised at the number using it as daily preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and that many were turning to other antibio
Why Homeless Patients Still Struggle to See a GP (opens the original)
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Great Chapel Street Medical Centre in central London is 1 of only 5 specialist homeless health surgeries in England. In the past year, the number of people seeking care there has risen by 30%. The centre is a one-stop shop for people who experience homelessness, many of whom are asylum seekers. The centre offers a wide range of healthcare services: a psychiatrist once a week, resident mental health nurses, specialist counselling, a podiatrist once a week, a weekly sexual health clinic, a legal a
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