Opinions

A pandemic plan on paper cannot replace the confidence that comes from having practised what to do.

AI health advice is already shaping patient decisions before they see a doctor. Dr Samantha Pillay examines the risks, regulatory gaps and policy reforms needed to make AI health advice safer in Australia.

From 2027, eligible Australian women may access UTI treatment and hormonal contraception through participating pharmacies at reduced cost. But is the evidence strong enough to support expanded pharmacist prescribing?

Understanding how environmental conditions and where people live affect infection risk may help explain why some people with cystic fibrosis experience respiratory infections more frequently than others.

Australia is missing an opportunity in how to improve data-driven healthcare with AI.

The significant health risks of fossil gas in our homes is the subject of a new report from Doctors for the Environment Australia.

Hypertension is often perceived as an older person’s condition, but most Australians aged 18–39 years with hypertension don’t know they have it. 

Sarcopenia has been treated as a muscle problem for decades. A new paper in The Lancet Healthy Longevity argues that the nervous system has been left out of the picture, and that this explains why so many treatments have disappointed.

A 24-year state-wide cohort study of almost 180000 Queenslanders found that people with schizophrenia-spectrum or bipolar disorder develop chronic physical disease across multiple body systems at younger ages and at accelerated rates compared to people without severe mental illness.