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A report on the causes of injury leading to hospitalisation and death over the last decade has been released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Expanded access to respiratory syncytial virus vaccines will cover all Australian babies.
Australia’s second-largest private health insurer, Bupa, has recently started offering its members three free GP telehealth consultations a year. This follows other insurers such as nib offering its members digital GP consults, for things like prescriptions and medical certificates, for a fee.
The National Lung Cancer Screening Program will begin in July 2025, with the hope that it will save lives by detecting cancer at an earlier and more treatable stage.
Our words — the way we speak, and are spoken to, what we read, and what we write — create our reality. The words and phrases used in relation to diabetes influence how people with diabetes think about themselves, and how society views people living with diabetes.
Although 60-day prescribing is potentially good news for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, prescribers need to be aware of the different in-use shelf life of inhalers when selecting preventer inhalers for their patients.
Parkinson’s disease neurologists and advocates are urging the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicine Authority (APVMA) to ban the common herbicide paraquat, citing compelling evidence linking its use to the development of Parkinson’s disease.
Politics has put abortion back on the ballot in the United States, as well as in Queensland and South Australia. InSight+ spoke to health care professionals about their concerns as reproductive health care is influenced by both politics and postcode.
It’s estimated almost 1.9 million Australians have diabetes, and numbers are growing. Between 2013 and 2023, the total number of people known to be living with diabetes across the country rose by 32%.
