Risk Factors

Glucose, not insulin, linked to colorectal cancer risk

25 Jan 2012 0 comments

An analysis from the Women's Health Initiative has suggested that colorectal cancer risk is associated with elevated fasting glucose levels, but not with hyperinsulinaemia.
Obesity linked to certain GI symptoms

25 Jan 2012 0 comments

There are "obvious clinical implication" of a new Australian study outlining the particular gastrointestinal symptoms obese people are likely to experience.
Chronic medications slip through cracks after hospital admission

24 Aug 2011 0 comments

Patients with chronic diseases are at risk of having their long-term medications unintentionally discontinued after a hospital admission.
Warning on GI symptoms with paracetamol: study

10 Aug 2011 0 comments

Researchers were surprised when a control arm receiving only paracetamol experienced the same drops in haemoglobin as the ibuprofen group.
30% of Australian hep B patients undiagnosed

10 Nov 2010 0 comments

Up to 50,000 Australians with hep B do not know they have the disease, experts say.
Generic perks to be revealed

10 Nov 2010 0 comments

Generic drug companies will face similar promotional restrictions to brand name pharmaceutical manufactures as a new code of conduct rules they must disclose the amount they spend on 'wining and dining' pharmacists.
More than 1000 doctors deregistered for non-renewal

10 Nov 2010 0 comments

Almost 1200 doctors have been taken off the register of medical practitioners and stripped of Medicare rights by the new national medical board for failing to renew their registration.
New surveillance guidelines 'first to be sensible'

26 Oct 2010 0 comments

Cancer surveillance in patients with inflammatory bowel disease needs to change to make use of new techniques and focus on those at high risk, a world leader in IBD told an audience at Australian Gastroenterology Week.
Controversy surrounds recertification requirements

26 Oct 2010 0 comments

Recommended requirements for colonoscopy recertification drew criticism from several directions at AGW 2010 last week.
Who should be doing surveillance endoscopies?

25 Oct 2010 0 comments

Nobody at Gastroenterology Week 2010 said they would allow a practicing colonoscopist, chosen at random, to give them a colonoscopy. What would the public think if they knew what gastroenterologists know, asked Roland Valori, England's National Clinical Director for Endoscopy.