A study has found significant variations in the quality of aged care across Australia, highlighting the need for targeted quality improvement programs.
A multinational study has found that reducing carbon emissions in addition to limiting antibiotic use could double the effects of containing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by 2050.
Experts call for urgent action to reduce stigma, improve treatment, and address rural inequities
The crushing burden of Tourette syndrome has been revealed in new research.
New research published in the Medical Journal of Australia has a found a significant number of people with diabetes-related foot ulcers (DFUs) are requiring hospitalisation before they heal.
Two years after the NSW Select Committee on Birth Trauma, prominent doulas say the freebirth movement is acting in a cult-like manner toward women afraid of the medical system. While doulas and midwives alike say that women should have the right to choose their preferred birth, the maternity system is not doing enough to support them to do so.
The MJA has published its second Special Issue on Indigenous Health to coincide with the 2025 NAIDOC week.
The Palm Cockatoo Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) at Weipa Hospital, Cape York Peninsula, has assisted local women to give birth locally rather than travelling 800 km to Cairns. The group wants to make a culturally safe space so that more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women can give birth in the Western Cape.
Primary care providers play an integral part in medical abortion access, but many barriers are preventing uptake of medical abortion provision.
