NSW public hospitals risk losing their accreditation to train junior psychiatrists as the speciality’s medical college performs emergency inspection visits amid a huge shortage of senior staff specialists.
NSW public health districts were pursuing a secret policy of swingeing cutbacks to the state’s public psychiatry workforce even as a recruitment crisis was crippling critically underfunded services.
The advocacy of more than 2000 pissed-off menopause warriors pushed me to research and rethink the role of MHT in keeping women healthy in their later years.
Rapid immunotherapy advancements could relegate killer cancers, such as the dangerous and deadly ovarian cancer, to the status of a ‘chronic disease’.
Technological advances in stroke care include remote robotic surgery, clot-busting medicine and new thrombectomy techniques. None was there to stop the damage for Clayton Skewis.
Australia will have expanded onshore manufacturing of IV saline fluids after the federal government struck a $40m deal to expand onshore manufacturing of the critical medicine.
Australian scientists have for the first time opened the way for targeted and regenerative therapies that could prevent severe disease for multiple sclerosis patients
Medicos examining the link between our guts and our brains say if mental health illnesses can be treated and cured via ‘poo transplants’ then neurogenerative diseases could too.
Patients with chest pain, severe respiratory distress and acute stroke languish for hours in emergency departments while those needing cardiac surgery frequently wait months.
Labor’s massive injection into Medicare is being treated with scepticism by many doctors who say the economics of bulk billing still do not add up.
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