As more cases of the virus emerge outside Africa, there are significant concerns about its potential to escalate, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
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.
Medical faculties globally have been slow to recognise the training needs of the next generation of doctors regarding the health consequences of a heating planet.
As we wait for global leaders to convene and chart the future course for the world’s population of eight billion, we can take proactive steps to protect health from climate change through multifaceted and sustained efforts that transcend the confines of net zero.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
MyMedicare is a new voluntary scheme that allows patients to register with their usual GP. How will it work? And how might it benefit patients? Here’s what we know so far.
This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.
Season 7 of Monash University’s podcast returns from hiatus with an investigation into food security. How will we feed more people than ever on an ever-warming planet?
Only one in nine medical graduates see general practice as a career choice, and the implications should deeply concern everyone.
Despite the often-divisive discussions leading up to this state election, the next state parliament should focus on developing community cohesion in public health.
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.
An interdisciplinary “One Health” approach and strong decision-making are our best defences against the next zoonotic-disease outbreak.
Limiting the powers of Victoria’s chief health officer is the right thing to do as we shift from fighting COVID-19 to living with it.
Does it matter that NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has stopped having daily media briefings?
While data to the end of January 2021 shows suicide didn’t increase in COVID-stricken Victoria, there’s still deep concern about the longer-term effects of the pandemic on mental health.
If the federal government won’t take appropriate climate change action to save the planet, Australians will use their collective power to do so.
A new international study has found that more than five million extra deaths a year can be attributed to hot and cold temperatures.
A new trial aims to ensure all Australian women know what is available to assist them to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
The Japanese government would bear the lion’s share of the financial costs should it cancel the Olympic Games, but that doesn’t mean it cannot or should not.
A key part of the budget's focus on women was a funding boost to help stop domestic violence, but is it enough?
Systemic sexism, harassment and bullying are not a new storyline for the CFA – surely it’s time to stop suppressing the fire and start fully-involved reform?
Women have been fighting poverty pay, long hours and unsafe working conditions long before COVID-19 hit.
Healthcare education is in need of a major overhaul if it's to address the sector’s climate change impact.
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