A new trial aims to investigate the potential harms and benefits of notifying Australian women of the risks associated with breast density during routine breast screening.
Australia’s focus on reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions while seemingly ignoring responsibility for exported emissions is morally wrong.
The under-recognition and undertreatment of heavy menstrual bleeding leads to delayed diagnosis, affecting the lives of women across Australia.
Australia currently has over 100 clinical registries that are increasingly seeking to improve multiple health care and health system issues. Yet greater recognition across sectors of their important role in monitoring and improving health care delivery and population outcomes is needed.
We urgently need to use Australian data to understand the breast cancer screening rates of Australian women with diabetes, compared with those without the condition.
Supporting young Australians to eat a healthy diet goes beyond doctors, dietitians and nutritionists; it is a responsibility of government and community and health systems.
Although Australian hospitals follow a Victorian militaristic model of seniority hierarchy, every health care practitioner must be a decision maker when it comes to their patient’s care.
We need to begin collecting data from rural hospitals all over Australia to address inequities in health care and workforce shortages.
Rural placements enable medical, nursing, midwifery, and allied health students to work at the top of their scope of practice, but that is just one advantage of practising in a rural area.
