Australians are in the grip of a mental health crisis, yet mental health nurses are underutilised, and even excluded from initiatives that could lead to improvements.
The issue of medicine-related harm is immense, and how to tackle it is an area of growing interest to governments and healthcare systems alike.
Fifteen years of patient data has revealed an important link between hospital-acquired infections and seizure and epilepsy onset.
Stigma within the healthcare system is being tackled head-on with the development of resources to help people with substance dependence access the care they need.
Making the wrong decision about how to access care can impact both your health and finances. So what are your options? And what policy reforms are needed to improve affordable access to healthcare?
The number of hospital emergency department presentations has increased between 23% and 49% globally in the past decade, and care is the casualty.
A new five-year study aims to build a broad picture of illicit drug use in regional Victoria, to better-understand the gaps in local health service planning.
The Victorian Heart Hospital, which opened in February, brings researchers to where the patients are, and already there’s a real buzz about the place.
Medical students in Melbourne spent much of 2020-21 learning via Zoom, but for rural students it was a case of hands-on healthcare with real patient outcomes – and now many of them are staying put.
Hospitals are struggling, with ambulances ramping outside emergency departments, and patients facing long waits for care. But doing more of the same won’t fix the problem.
A drug-monitoring program in hospital emergency departments is tracking the alarming rise of strange new psychoactive synthetic drugs in Australia.
There are things we need to unlearn, learn and relearn about conditions for living together on this planet in just, equitable and sustainable ways.
A new study shows almost one in four university and vocational education students report extremely high levels of distress during the pandemic.
Self-harm is often a response to mounting stress and uncertainty, so it’s not surprising rates have gone up during the pandemic.
Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout priority should move from those most at risk of the disease to those most likely to spread it, according to new modelling.
Statistics show the disturbing incline of youth mental health problems, highlighting the need for more support and prevention in schools.
Although it was a century ago, there are parallels between the Spanish Flu pandemic and COVID-19. What was it like on the frontline for our healthcare workers this time around – and what have we learnt as a society?
When police adopt a military philosophy, the community is divided into those to be protected, and those seen as a threat – and that's most often defined along racial lines.
The COVID-19 crisis has given rise to the rollout of telehealth technology, but fewer people are consulting their GPs. Post-pandemic, what does it mean for digital health?
The nature of Aussie rules means players risk injuries to their hands and wrists serious enough to send them to the emergency department.
A crisis of this scale requires a willingness to generate bipartisan consensus, but the PM has struggled to put the national interest above party politics.
Rather than reacting when disaster strikes, there's plenty we can do to prevent catastrophic bushfires.
A new report reveals alarming statistics regarding male self-harm, and how first responders feel ill-prepared to deal with patients in mental crisis.
The drug epidemic that's claimed thousands of lives in the US is swiftly becoming a threat to the health of many Australians.
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