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A study of Australia’s wastewater shows a significant decrease in oxycodone levels, suggesting changes to prescription policies are making a difference.

Rory Verhagen, Cobus Gerber, Phong K Thai, Jason Connor, Wayne Hall, Benjamin J Tscharke

Providing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents with accessible, culturally safe primary health care is vital in optimising the future health of Indigenous Australians.

Annika Howells

A program that aims to fast-track international medical graduates into rural Australian placements is facing criticism for lacking detail and safeguards.

Caitlin Wright

With increasing recognition of bullying in academic settings, it is vital that institutions adhere to their own policies and protocols when supporting victims of bulling and abusive behaviour in medical academia.

Tom Brett

A new study on the relationship between fluid viscosity and cellular function in the reproductive tract offers a new perspective on how fluid dynamics within the tract might influence fertility, particularly in cases where abnormal viscosity may be present.

Reza Nosrati, Melati Suhaila Abdul Halim

Aboriginal children living in remote communities have the highest rate of skin sores, or impetigo, in the world. Almost one in two have skin sores at any one time.

While there has been a general decline in the incidence of type 2 diabetes since 2010, the incidence is still increasing in certain ethnic and socio-economic groups.

Annika Howells

New data from a ten-year Australian population study, and specific data screening study published in the MJA, show a significant need to screen for reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) in Australia.

Becca Whitehead

Death from heart disease is at its lowest since records began in the 1960s. But dementia is shaping up to be Australia’s biggest killer.

Sally Block