The way we talk about and value women’s health needs to change because too many women have painful periods and experience awful side effects from contraception, writes Dr Aajuli Shukla. As a female GP in an area of high socio-economic disadvantage with burgeoning and impossible to get into gynaecological…

A new research agenda from the University of Queensland will focus on health and wellbeing outcomes for First Nations people living in urban areas of Australia. As Australia becomes more urbanised, there is an urgent need to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for urban First Nations peoples, according…

A decision to hand over water fluoridation decisions to local councils in Queensland a decade ago has resulted in more than a million Queenslanders having less access to fluoridated water, putting them at a greater risk of dental disease. New research, published in the Medical Journal of Australia,…

Evidence suggests that long lists of side effects on patient information lists do not improve informed consent but instead decrease consumer willingness to take medication. Informed consent is central to Western medicine, and sharing medication side-effect information with patients is viewed as core…

People with diabetes-related foot disease are often not sufficiently educated on preventing and managing foot ulcers and other related conditions, and more research is needed to find the best approach so people with this condition can best manage themselves. Diabetes prevalence has steadily increased…

A second National Action Plan for Endometriosis is vital to help improve care and the quality of life for women with this condition. Endometriosis is a common, chronic gynaecological condition affecting 11.4% (830 000) of Australian women, girls and transgender and gender-diverse people or an estimated…

As 2023 comes to a close, so too does our first year bringing you InSight+ every week. It’s been a challenging year, but also a rewarding one, as the InSight+ team worked hard to bring you the latest medical news and expert opinion with each issue. Before we head off on a well earned holiday, we wanted…

Women’s health is in the spotlight this Wednesday with InSight+ releasing a special issue delivered straight to your inbox. On 30 August, InSight+ will be releasing our first special edition newsletter to all subscribers. The special issue, focused on women’s health, features four exclusive articles…

Medical conferences are a great opportunity to connect with other doctors and even win raffles, but more needs to be done to make them inclusive for doctors with young children, writes Dr Aajuli Shukla. Ever since the announcement was made regarding changes to the continuing professional development…

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity” — Hippocrates Love and intimacy are complex concepts about which several books and plays have been written, movies made, and social media quotes generated. It has often enchanted and frustrated but is almost always a common…

“My plea to the younger generation of doctors, men and women, is that you not be complicit by silence when you see inequity, harassment, abuse and discrimination at play. Do not be tempted to benefit from it, and be brave enough to call it when you see it. Power will not change of its own volition,…

THE recent death by suicide of one of our GP colleagues, Dr Ezha Lau, in Sydney felt like a tragedy for her community but hit another level for me as a fellow female GP with a young family. It felt eerie. Dr Lau was one of us in a system that has seen reductions in funding, resources and workforce,…

Financial aid should be easier to access, should reflect current living costs and should consider the long term implications of a single parent raising children alone. We have been talking about recognising and ending violence against women for several years now, we need policies in place that do not…

REMEMBER 2016? That was the year the world lost some greats – George Michael, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Leonard Cohen, Mrs Brady, R2D2, Gene Wilder, Elie Wiesel, Muhammad Ali, Prince, David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Jon English – it was teen hero carnage. We couldn’t wait to see the calendar…