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September 2018

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Peer Reviewed Feature Articles

Dementia: how to reduce the risk and impact

CPD

ELEANOR CURRAN, TERENCE CHONG, NICOLA LAUTENSCHLAGER

PTSD in emergency service workers. When rescuers need rescuing

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JOHN COOPER, ANDREA PHELPS, SAMUEL B. HARVEY

Systemic lupus erythematosus: reducing life-threatening progression

CPD

CHARLES A. INDERJEETH, PAULINE HABIB, CHANAKYA SHARMA, JOHANNES NOSSENT

Eczema in infants. The role of dietary manipulation

GERARD J. CHU, MIRIAM CODARINI, JUDITH PRYKE, CONSTANCE H. KATELARIS

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Medicolegal matters

Clinical case review

Travel medicine update

Ophthalmology clinic

Medicolegal matters

Regaining trust: managing inadvertent vaccination errors

Naomi Lewis, USHMA NARSAI

Clinical case review

Purpuric rash: is it meningococcal disease?

HASANTHA GUNASEKERA

Travel medicine update

Antibiotic resistance and overseas travel. Souvenirs that are not in your suitcase

DAVID TURNER, Sarah McGuinness, Karin Leder

Ophthalmology clinic

Ocular associations of autoimmune disease

PHILOMENA McNAMARA, NITIN VERMA

Dermatology clinic

A girl with an itchy vesicular rash

PHILIPPA DICKISON, Gayle Fischer

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Supplements

Conventional and atypical opioids

In Brief Clinical news with comment from local experts

Fragility fractures

Cannabis use for pain

New PCOS guideline

Alcohol and dementia risk

CLINICAL NEWS

Risk of death increased for up to 10 years after fragility fracture

Cannabis for chronic noncancer pain in patients prescribed opioids: efficacy questioned

New guideline to improve health outcomes for women with PCOS

Does abstinence from alcohol increase the risk of dementia?

Occult blood in faeces linked with all-cause mortality

Type 2 diabetes and later Parkinson’s disease association reported

Link reported between statin and rare autoimmune muscle condition

Pain in older adults linked with biopsychosocial risk factors

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Melanoma risk significantly reduced in young people using sunscreen

Novel resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae reported

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A man with erythematous and swollen hands

Date Posted: Friday, September 7, 2018

A 45-year-old man presents with a two-day history of progressive erythema and swelling affecting both hands.

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