While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.
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.
Healthcare professionals play a critical role in supporting breastfeeding mothers, but they often face challenges that hinder their ability to provide optimal care.
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.
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?
Being aware of terminal lucidity, when some people with dementia suddenly becoming lucid, can help loved ones understand it’s part of the dying process.
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.
School-leavers want flexibility and gig work offers it. But how will that affect the economy?
There’s plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health, but studies often omit the developing countries of the global south.
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.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
It’s argued that building research capacity helps clinicians to provide better care, and health outcomes, for their patients in rural and remote areas.
Inspirational clinical psychology graduate Dr Victoria Gentile exemplifies the importance of Indigenous students in the future of healthcare, and shows why more are needed.
Changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme have influenced the way doctors prescribe opioids, but is it for the better?
Health status is more complex than just your address. At a population level, the biggest predictor of health status is the social determinants of health. We need to think outside the box to determine who needs care most, and how it can be delivered.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
The pandemic has impacted people from all walks of life, but academics, early-career researchers, and PhD students have been particularly hard-hit.
Little has been said about the potential use and misuse of generative AI, particularly in medicine and healthcare.
In the AI age, rewarding the beauty of our imperfections by designing learning activities and assessments that reframe “deficiencies” as human assets that can be complemented by AI could be the way forward.
It’s imperative we build national capacity programs for healthcare professionals to respond and manage climate change-related impacts on health, disasters, and risk reductions.
For Dr Anton Isaacs, initial thoughts of surgery specialisation turned into a 20-year journey that’s taken him into the heart of vulnerable communities in Australia and India.
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