New guidelines are now available for health care practitioners to provide best-practice care to people with diabetes-related foot disease — the first new guidelines in over a decade.
With the cost of health care in Australia increasing faster than the cost of living and wage growth, medical practitioners tell InSight+ that our primary care system is becoming increasingly inequitable and inefficient.
Although cancer care has improved dramatically in Australia over the past few decades, two new cancer plans have been unveiled focusing on improving outcomes for priority population groups and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Melbourne Cup of 1991 remains in the memory of one doctor who was staffing a busy emergency department when everyone wanted to watch the race that stops a nation.
Medicine cannot cure all diseases, but one simple yet powerful tool – art – can help patients and doctors alike, writes Dr Mogeshni Govender.
We need better ways of integrating robotic surgery into the training of junior surgeons, and this must start in Australian public hospitals, writes Professor Anthony Costello.
Vitamin C deficiency is more frequent in people living in areas of socio-economic disadvantage, prompting calls for targeted public health intervention.
The lives of more than 700 doctors who served in the Australian Army during the Second World War are remembered in a new book, published in time for Remembrance Day.
Researchers from Northern Territory Health have been recognised for their work into life expectancy of Indigenous people in the Top End.
