Despite the high prevalence of melanoma in Australia, a new article in The Medical Journal of Australia argues people of colour are under-represented in the registry data used to collect information on skin cancer.
Three researchers leading the fight against ovarian cancer will share new grant funding announced during Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
The national peak body representing Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds has criticised the health inequities faced by people of non-European backgrounds, highlighted in a new report.
A study by Deakin University suggests the removal of long telephone consultations from the Medicare Benefits Schedule will leave vulnerable patients behind.
A comparison of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians admitted to intensive care units reveals a “disturbing” difference in mortality outcomes.
Key recommendations to overhaul Medicare have been handed in down in the Australian Government’s Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report
All Australian governments need to improve their pandemic planning to avoid setbacks faced by researchers examining the early spread of COVID-19.
Flocks of chickens – stationed across New South Wales – are the local health district’s secret weapon in preventing the spread of dangerous mosquito-borne viruses on the rise across the state.
It’s impossible to avoid the Aussie sun entirely, but Australians are well aware of the dangers of too much exposure. Some 40 years of Slip Slop Slap (and more recently added, Seek and Slide) campaigns have reinforced this, not to mention the unpleasant experience of a sunburn most of us have encountered at some point.
