Freedom no therapy in schizophrenia’s black hole
The human rights revolution that granted the sickest psychiatric patients their personal autonomy ultimately cast them adrift. Can the mess be fixed?
The human rights revolution that granted the sickest psychiatric patients their personal autonomy ultimately cast them adrift. Can the mess be fixed?
Parents have described begging doctors in the public health system to help their acutely mentally unwell children for years and being repeatedly told there was nothing they could do.
Radical changes to hospital funding and service delivery are being negotiated after the health ministers unanimously acknowledged public hospitals were under unsustainable pressure.
The performance of public hospitals has deteriorated to its lowest level ever, with alarming new data on surgery and emergency departments.
Top Australian heart institutes are preparing for a future in which taking weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic may be as common as taking a statin for those at risk of heart attacks.
Patients are being charged upfront ‘membership fees’ of up to $170 to access bulk-billing medical clinics as the primary care crisis deepens.
With the majority of Australians now classified as metabolically unhealthy, is it time to endorse low-carb eating for all?
Australia has joined a worldwide project led by the Michael J Fox Foundation to radically accelerate the prevention of the condition affecting 220,000 Aussies.
There are early signs of an uplift in medical registrars signing up to be GPs as doctors lobby the federal government to widely roll out incentives for young medics to take up training places.
Separating mental illness from normal human stress and anxiety seems lost in ever-loosening psychiatric definitions.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/natasha-robinson/page/20