The heads of Australia’s medical colleges are warning our public health systems face a dire future of chronic understaffing, unmanageable workloads and critical threats to patient safety unless bureaucratic overreach is overhauled.
As Andrew Dyer travelled the country dealing with the renewable energy transition, he carried a private struggle. Now he reveals how he juggled his demanding role with a devastating diagnosis.
A disability care business servicing some of the most vulnerable people in Australia is in turmoil, staff walk out, as it faces a federal investigation into taxpayer funding.
A strong back is not just a defence against injury and joint pain, it can look great too.
It should be easier to commercialise Australian medical research, a key industry figure says.
Labor’s centrepiece Medicare policy promising most patients will be able to see a doctor for free has been discredited as a ‘utopian vision’.
Almost half of all Australians at risk of heart valve disease have never heard of it. A pioneer in its treatment is calling for vigilance.
With a hug and a few words, a treasured friend has prompted me into action. Hopefully he does the same for you.
With PSA tests for prostate cancer offering limited accuracy, could a new urine test be a diagnosis gamechanger?
Australia wants to be the first country in the world to virtually eliminate cervical cancer. New data shows a policy change made a few years ago could help get us there.
The latest nutritional thinking tries to settle the debate about the morning meal’s importance.
The federal government has bankrolled the use of an artificial ketamine nasal spray to combat treatment-resistant depression, providing treatment for those with ‘little hope’.
You might consider it peculiar or even out of line to see an article connecting climate change and environmental pollution with health by a general practitioner, but GPs can no longer separate environmental conditions and human health.
This baked snapper is a signature dish at the Catseye Pool Club restaurant helmed by culinary team Josh and Julie Niland inside the new boutique hotel, The Sundays.
Lorna Hawkey, 84, has spent almost 30 years fighting blood cancer. Valuing independence above all else, she praised a newly subsidised at-home treatment.
As Apple Watch celebrates its 10th birthday, we look at its 10 top features and speak to the Australians who say it has saved their lives.
Like the actor Gwyneth Paltrow, I craved cheese … and quit even sooner.
His mother was dying, he was in debt and his book had flopped – then an NFL star changed Jim Murphy’s life.
At 62, the actor has been transformed for his latest role as Greek hero Odysseus in The Return. His trainer explains how he did it. Would you try it?
Cracks in the public health systems are bleedingly obvious, and can no longer be ignored.
Deborah Yates was the kind of doctor who lived to serve in public hospitals. But not any more. She is not alone in turning her back on what she says is a broken system.
In the ongoing search for a reliable male contraceptive, the trial of a new sperm-blocking “hydrogel” has shown early promise.
Shrouded in controversy, tightly regulated but the science far from settled: inside the veiled world of Australia’s legal, cutting-edge, MDMA-led therapy.
A newly subsidised immunotherapy for multiple myeloma presents the first chance for some patients to access such treatment.
Psychedelic medicine is being pushed further into the mainstream with the DVA to fund the therapies for ill veterans, as the TGA weighs up also allowing it for palliative care.
Jeannie Rice is fitter than most women are in their 20s. Scientists are baffled but thrilled at her potential.
Exposure to the bacteria in childhood may be part of the puzzle over why there has been a jump in cancer rates among the young.
A nut allergy can be life-threatening, but a new trial has found eating a small daily dose of peanuts can help overcome it.
Hospitals are at risk of being drained of the country’s most talented and skilled doctors with swathes of the medical workforce set to abandon the public sector amid what is being described as a widespread culture of cover-up and payback.
It started as a staff uprising, led by an unassuming intensive-care physician, that grew into a statewide probe and fears of a toxic culture gripping a health system.
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