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Evidence suggests that long lists of side effects on patient information lists do not improve informed consent but instead decrease consumer willingness to take medication.

Jessica M Barker, Kate Faasse

People with diabetes-related foot disease are often not sufficiently educated on preventing and managing foot ulcers and other related conditions, and more research is needed to find the best approach so people with this condition can best manage themselves.

Aaron Drovandi, Jonathan Golledge

A second National Action Plan for Endometriosis is vital to help improve care and the quality of life for women with this condition.

Cecilia Ng, Gita Mishra, Grant Montgomery, Jason Abbott

Barriers abound in implementing artificial intelligence across Australia’s health care systems, with Queensland researchers calling for more government funding to take advantage of this emerging technology.

Sam Hunt

Wood heater smoke in the Australian Capital Territory is estimated to cause similar mortality to the extreme smoke of the Black Summer Bushfires of 2019–20, new research has found.

Annika Howells, Sam Hunt

Despite endometriosis being common among women in Australia, it remains unknown which patients will benefit from surgery, prompting the need for more local research, write Dr Samantha Mooney and Associate Professor Sarah Holdsworth-Carson.

Samantha Mooney, Sarah Holdsworth-Carson

Dr Will Cairns reflects on a chance childhood meeting with the physicist Leo Szilard, inventor of the atom bomb, and wonders about our capacity to address the challenges facing humankind.

Will Cairns

While many other drugs get national attention, a significant number of people still die from heroin overdose.

Shane Darke, Johan Duflou, Amy Peacock, Michael Farrell, Julia Lappin

An action plan is needed to care for people with lipid disorders in Australia to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.

Nick Lan, Gerald Watts