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An oversupply of trainees means that early career medical oncologists feel forced to do PhDs in the “dogfight” for the few jobs available, a new survey shows. The hyper-competitive job market in medical oncology means that trainees feel increasingly anxious and pessimistic about their uncertain career prospects and resentful at having to do a higher […]
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Mashup Score: 24MOGA chair warns over looming workforce shortages - 4 month(s) ago
Oncology trainees are “in distress about their career prospects” amid intensifying workforce shortages and clinical demands, MOGA’s chair says. The society’s ASM last week also heard concerns about the structure of the training program, with claims that trainees need more than the currently required 24 months in core training. MOGA chair Associate Professor Melissa Eastgate […]
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Mashup Score: 4Damning report reveals ‘multiple failings’ in respiratory care - 5 month(s) ago
A damning audit of hospital respiratory care in England and Wales has uncovered multiple failings in the care of patients with COPD and asthma. Too many patients wait more than 24 hours to be seen by a respiratory specialist when they go to hospital with an exacerbation, too few leave with a self-management plan, and […]
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Mashup Score: 2Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Disease: Evidence into Practice - 6 month(s) ago
Join online as a multidisciplinary expert panel presents the latest clinical evidence and an update on international guideline recommendations for the use of disease-modifying treatments in this complex disorder, and discusses models of care for improved outcomes. Hosted by Associate Professor Brendon Neuen Staff Specialist Nephrologist and Director of Kidney Trials, Royal North Shore Hospital; […]
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Mashup Score: 2ERA 2024 – Highlights through an Australian lens - 6 month(s) ago
Join online as an expert panel presents their selection of transformational clinical research highlights from the European Renal Association Annual Congress and discusses the impacts for patient care in Australia. Hosted by Associate Professor Rathika Krishnasamy Academic Clinical Nephrologist and Director of Nephrology; Sunshine Coast University Hospital; President, Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology; […]
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Mashup Score: 5Dietary interventions a promising first line treatment for IBS - 8 month(s) ago
Dietary interventions such as low FODMAP should be considered a potential first-line treatment for patients with IBS, outperforming symptom-targeted medication in reducing symptom severity, a study suggests. However, all interventions in the single centre study resulted in significant and clinically meaningful efficacy at improving gastrointestinal, psychological and non-gastrointestinal somatic symptoms, and quality of life, the […]
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Mashup Score: 12Top-down better than step-up approach to Crohn’s disease: PROFILE study - 10 month(s) ago
A top-down approach to treating patients newly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease is superior to an accelerated step-up approach, according to results presented at ECCO 24 Congress. Dr Nurulamin Noor, from the Department of Gastroenterology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, presented results from the PROFILE study, the first biomarker-stratified comparison of […]
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Mashup Score: 2Key Advances in CUP - 10 month(s) ago
Join online as an expert panel provides important updates in Cancer of Unknown Primary, with a focus on practice-shaping data presented at ESMO 2023 and new recommendations on the role of genomic profiling in the diagnosis and treatment of CUP. Hosted by Professor Linda Mileshkin Director of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre PANEL Dr […]
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Mashup Score: 14Botox a new therapy for faecal incontinence: Lancet - 11 month(s) ago
Intrarectal botox injections can halve faecal incontinence and urgency episodes in treatment-resistant patients, according to the first randomised-controlled trial to investigate the short-term efficacy of the potential new therapy. French gastroenterologists recruited 200 adults with faecal incontinence who were considered refractory to first-line treatments and who had at least one urgency or faecal incontinence episode […]
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Mashup Score: 9Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity a nocebo effect: study - 1 year(s) ago
Gastrointestinal symptoms of gluten sensitivity in people without coeliac disease are a nocebo effect driven by negative expectations, study findings suggest. A prospective blinded trial of gluten and placebo ingestion in participants with non-coeliac gluten sensitivity found that gastrointestinal symptoms were experienced more frequently by those who had high expectations of symptoms. Conducted by research […]
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4/5 https://t.co/eUoeTfoyfM With an increasing, older population, increasing demands, better cancer survival should = more funded specialty positions.