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InSight+ journalist Becca Whitehead takes a personal look at the current state of multiple sclerosis treatment and research for World Multiple Sclerosis Day.

Becca Whitehead

Verbal and physical assault in hospital wards, accident and emergency departments and primary care should never be accepted as “part of the job” and more steps must be taken to keep all health care workers safe, including doctors, write Dr Gifar Hassan and Clinical Professor Leanne Rowe AM

Leanne Rowe, Gifar Hassan

Bulk-billing for certain groups has been given a lifeline at the eleventh hour, but the funding announcement is fraught with complexities, writes Dr Alisha Dorrigan.

Alisha Dorrigan

Step by step, door to door, district by district, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s new Project Zero aims to find and treat every woman living with obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. It is an ambitious yet achievable goal, writes Carolyn Hardy, CEO of Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation.

Carolyn Hardy

Rachel Coghlan shares a poetic reflection on the intricacies and chaos of providing palliative care.

Rachel Coghlan

Dr Sidney Chandrasiri examines Australia’s health workforce shortage and the multifaceted approach that will be required to care for the health and wellbeing of all Australians.

Sidney Chandrasiri

Medicine can survive in the post-truth world, but we must pay much more attention to factors beyond the scientific facts, writes Dr Jillann Farmer.

Jillann Farmer

The World Health Organization’s announcement that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency has caused some confusion over what that means for the state of the pandemic.

Caitlin Wright

A practical guide to help general practitioners assess a patient for exposure to silica dust by Sydney respiratory physician Professor Deborah Yates and occupational hygienists Kate Cole and Maggie Davidson.

Deborah Yates, Kate Cole, Margaret Davidson