Opinions

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.

New analysis shows replacing 10% of your intake of ultra-processed foods with minimally processed foods is linked with 2% lower incidence of bowel cancer according to researcher Dr Erikka Loftfield.

By standing together, Victorian doctors in training have courageously drawn national and state attention to hazardous public hospital working conditions and their consequences for all health workers and patients.

Evidence-Based Medicine has inadvertently built scaffolding upon which AI will mount its conquest of medicine.

Illicit tobacco, vaping and other emerging nicotine products require modern, targeted responses. But they do not justify abandoning the evidence-based measures that have brought Australia this far.