The fight against diabetes in Malaysia and Southeast Asia requires a multifaceted approach that addresses dietary habits, physical activity, and socio-economic factors.
The world has talked at great lengths about how climate change is an environmental crisis. But what about the human health effects that come from it?
It’s clear some women struggle to work because of their menopausal symptoms, but help to keep them in the workforce must be provided in a way that doesn’t set them up for further discrimination.
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.
Research shows an improved chance of surviving ICU when patients are cared for in units with more than 75% qualified ICU nursing staff, but there’s a desperate shortage of them.
Early identification is the first step in addressing malnutrition. This requires systematic routine screening processes.
Fifteen years of patient data has revealed an important link between hospital-acquired infections and seizure and epilepsy onset.
By basing any AI regulation on the principles of justice, we can take a balanced approach that promotes innovation while safeguarding societal interests.
Despite signs that inflation is levelling off, Australians could feel the health impacts of high prices for some time.
What symptoms reliably indicate the start of perimenopause or menopause? And which symptoms can menopause hormone therapy help with? Here’s what the evidence says.
Researchers are conducting the first clinical trial to examine how selective estrogen receptor modulators’ (SERMs) may help both men and women suffering from schizophrenia.
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.
The world’s most advanced artificial heart, including a pipeline of transformative, next-generation cardiac technologies, are set to be developed and commercialised by a Monash University-led consortium.
The pictures men in paid care work are painting of work in the disability sector versus work in aged care are astonishingly different.
If you’re contemplating breast augmentation, liposuction, or a facelift, there are new safety and quality standards that can provide extra protection. Here’s what you need to know ahead of surgery.
As Medicare turns 40 years old this month, it’s important to reflect on its achievements, and also what needs to be done to remodel it.
The number of hospital emergency department presentations has increased between 23% and 49% globally in the past decade, and care is the casualty.
As a federal government taskforce ponders how to improve the system, a new study focuses on nurses in two Victorian residential aged care homes, and how they feel about and operate in their workplaces.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
Are the rapid advancements in AI, medicine and neuroscience propelling us towards a transhumanist future?
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.
If the world genuinely wants to reach some semblance of “sustainable development”, it needs to start listening more to the concerns of youth and marginalised populations.
Monitoring the quality of healthcare by routinely collecting, analysing and sharing standardised health-related information.
Hotter, drier conditions associated with El Niño can be detrimental to our health. These tips may help.
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