Primary care boost for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people As many as 100,000 patients aged 50 years and older will soon have greater access to healthcare services.
NSW to introduce drug amnesty bins at music festivals The state is ‘closing the door on pill testing’, with the government ignoring most recommendations from an inquest into drug deaths.
Poor air quality remains a health threat Much of New South Wales continues to labour under a haze of ‘hazardous’ smoke.
Company-sponsored trials tainting medicine: Researchers Experts have called for the health sector to ‘disentangle from commercial interests’ to improve the quality and reliability of research.
Australian GP named in global list of elite researchers Professor Paul Glasziou has been recognised as one of the world’s most cited researchers in 2019.
Doctors join campaign to save Medevac The RACGP has called on the Senate to save the Medevac legislation.
‘Game changing’ cancer drugs listed on the PBS Thousands of Australians with non-small cell lung cancer and early-stage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia will have access to better treatment options.
Is there gender equity in Australian medicine? ‘No’ say female doctors A group of 35 doctors issued the terse one-word response to a question from a major medical journal.
Almost 200 aged care providers at ‘high levels of financial distress’ New research from Australia’s peak national body for aged care providers has identified an alarming risk of economic collapse for 197 centres.