Predictions Upended Down Under, While Fighting Zika globalforum.diaglobal.org/issue/july-201…

BPS Publications bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Changing the narrative on #gout in Australia AIHW figures underestimate the prevalence of #gout as it is not treated as a chronic disease Read our letter to MJA : co-authors Helen Keen, Dr Philip Robinson 🇺🇦 and Nicola Dalbeth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.569… ARA Early Career Group

The safety and pharmacokinetics of metformin in patients with chronic liver disease onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Efficacy and harms of orally, intramuscularly or intravenously administered glucocorticoids for sciatica: A systematic review and meta‐analysis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Important initiative

Be kind, focus on equity, avoid complacency, stay connected – and other pandemic reflections croakey.org/be-kind-focus-…

So nice to see part of the puzzle explored. Would prescribers trust dose-prediction software? drslstocker A/Prof Natalie Taylor Ric Day @SVHSydney UNSW Medicine & Health

On the money

DIA: Driving Insights to Action podbean.com/pu/pbblog-n5z2… John Skeritt, Head of TGA & I chat about "Australia: Growing Clinical Trials Even in Pandemic’s Wake"

Shared decision making v powerful Andrew McLachlan Takes time and commitment. #QUM

Great question Irwin Dr Irwin Lim! Work needed! #personalisedmedicine

I'm one of 700,000+ calling on Anthony Albanese and Not ScoMo to bring #JulianAssange home. Time is running out before he is extradited to the US. Australia must act NOW. #FreeAssange ctt.ec/u09od+

More research is needed Stephanie Mathieson Danijela Gnjidic Rowena Ivers Christina Abdel Shaheed Prue Anderson Australian Deprescribing Network (ADeN) #gabapentinoids Sydney Health

Opioids don't relieve acute low back or neck pain – and can result in worse pain, new study finds theconversation.com/opioids-dont-r… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

This trail used the recommended dose range for oxycodone-naloxone combination from the Australian Medicines Handbook "oxycodone/naloxone 5/2.5–10/5 mg every 12 hours; adjust dose according to response after 1 week or less"

Practice changing paper by Wiser Healthcare ECR star @Caitlin_Jones, showing opioids are not effective for acute back/ neck pain. Sydney Health EMCR Sydney Health

Strong evidence that opioids not helpful in people with spinal pain