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Access to healthcare in Australia isn’t equal for everyone. Young adults, people with chronic diseases, people from lower socio-economic areas and people without private health insurance report significant challenges in being able to access the care they need.
The beauty of the Amazon basin will greet world leaders as they arrive in Belém, Brazil, for the 30th UN Climate Change Conference beginning on Monday.
Over the last 30 years, there have been significant advances in our understanding of ‘complex trauma’ — repeated ongoing and often extreme interpersonal violence, abuse and neglect, occurring at any life stage or over multiple stages. People experiencing the impacts of complex trauma benefit from medical practice which is trauma-informed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving rapidly from promise to practice in Australian health care. While the potential of AI in medicine has been recognised for a number of years now, technologies such as scribes have now become ubiquitous. This transformation into AI-augmented practice extends well beyond medicine, with nursing care and allied health applications emerging on the near horizon too.
Australians living with severe mental illness continue to die around 15 years earlier than the general population. The majority of this gap is driven not by suicide but by preventable physical health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.
Back in May, the parent companies of private hospital operator Healthscope fell into receivership, burdened by A$1.6 billion in debt.
The Trump administration and US Health Secretary RFK Jr have made several unscientific announcements about autism recently. After RFK Jr announced in April he would ‘find’ the cause of Autism by September, he then linked autism to the use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) by pregnant people, to vaccines, and even the cultural practice of circumcision. Why is autism receiving so much negative attention?
Australia’s first evidence-based guidelines for male infertility will serve as a long overdue clinical aid to practitioners who provide fertility care to men.
The 2023 national nutrition survey from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, published in September 2025, shows women are eating substantially less red meat than men, averaging 47.8g a day with men consuming on average 64.3g per day. The Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADGs) advise up to 65g per day (a maximum of 455g cooked lean red meat per week) to enhance dietary variety and reduce some of the health risks associated with consuming excess meat.
