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 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.
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.
On a new episode of Monash University’s “What Happens Next?” podcast, meet the healthcare providers and advocates working tirelessly to ensure that we don't lose ground in the global fight for reproductive rights.
Malaysia’s shrimp industry is big business, but unapproved antibiotic use has led to export bans and negative perceptions of the country's aquaculture industry. Can bioprospecting turn things around?
The new Neuromedicines Discovery Centre (NDC) aims to develop psychiatric drugs and approaches to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies for common mental illnesses.
Researchers are exploring the medical frontier of psychedelics, and their use in facilitating psychotherapy for common mental illnesses.
A research project aims to boost pharmacists’ roles in neighbourhood mental health.
A new trial aims to ensure all Australian women know what is available to assist them to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
Community pharmacies and pharmacists are important resources in Australia’s vaccine rollout, and right now they’re being under-utilised.
Two Monash students – and also firm friends – are on a mission to boost the uptake of the influenza vaccine.
Doctors rely on independent guidelines when prescribing medication – and Mary Hemming AO is a key figure behind these.
Dr Harry Al-Wassiti is now part of a Monash research team striving to find a COVID-19 vaccine, but his path has been far from easy.
We need to look at the issue from a patient perspective. What can we be doing to support patients and safely manage their pain with opioids post-surgery.
Work placements put Monash University medicine and pharmacy students on the COVID-19 frontline.
The trumpeting of hydroxychloroquine's potential in treating COVID-19 raises ethical and safety concerns.
Maintaining or expanding addiction services is vital if we’re to avert a syndemic of opioid overdoses and COVID-19.
A new advocacy group aims to address gender imbalance in science by helping map the career trajectories of early-to-mid-career researchers through promotion of their existing research achievements.
Treatments for opioid dependence, such as methadone and buprenorphine, are effective. But some people who stand to benefit are missing out.
The drug epidemic that's claimed thousands of lives in the US is swiftly becoming a threat to the health of many Australians.
Instead of killing the disease – as chemotherapy and radiotherapy do – a new and “lateral” approach to treatment shows great promise.
Philanthropy is now viewed as a way of creating communities of people with a shared goal of bringing positive, practical change to the world.
It’s a long way from volunteering at a local rural pharmacy to leading teams of pharmacists in a major metropolitan hospital.
Artist, writer, military man, engineer, lawyer, aesthete, designer and a leader. Former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu regards him as the greatest Australian of all time.
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