Medicinal cannabis: A GP examines the evidence GP and integrative medicine practitioner Dr Vicki Kotsirilos writes for newsGP about existing evidence for the provision and use of medicinal cannabis.
‘Canaries in a coalmine’: Children and adolescents in EDs with mental health issues Despite increases in mental health funding, greater numbers of children and adolescents are presenting at Victorian emergency departments with mental illness.
Bowel and cervical screening effective, but participation rates need to improve New research shows that the national bowel cancer and cervical cancer screening programs are proving effective, but participation rates are not as high as they could be.
Children born to younger mothers at increased risk of developmental vulnerabilities A study of almost 100,000 NSW school children shows those born to teenage mothers have the highest risk of developmental vulnerabilities at age five, largely due to social and economic disadvantage.
Free whooping cough vaccine a step towards health equity: Researcher A GP and public health researcher has hailed news that whooping cough vaccine will be free for every pregnant woman in Australia as a step towards more equitable health outcomes.
The spectrum is not an exclusively male domain: Recognising autism in females Gendered assumptions about autism may result in many girls and women going undiagnosed.
Trial designer reflects on Australia’s first music festival pill-testing service Taking pills at a music festival should never cost a person their life, emergency physician Dr David Caldicott told newsGP.
Transvaginal mesh implants: Patient stories Dr Magdalena Simonis – GP and RACGP representative on the recent Senate inquiry into transvaginal mesh implants – writes for newsGP about the harrowing experiences of two women following surgery to insert the implants.
Women with breast cancer worse off in rural Australia, study shows New research shows women with breast cancer in rural Australia have lower survival rates and different health outcomes than those living in the cities.
The high cost of brain injury as a result of family violence A landmark new report from Brain Injury Australia shines a light on family-violence-related brain injury, and points to a pathway for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.