The gap in cancer rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples tripled between 2006 and 2019, while cancer rates fell for non-Indigenous Australians. InSight+ spoke with a medical oncologist and Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officers about the new First Nations-led cancer plan to address the disparity.
New recommendations have been unveiled for the diagnosis and management of chronic cough, a condition that affects 8.8% of Australian adults.
Adjunct Professor Janine Mohamad is the Victorian recipient of the Australian of the Year award for 2024, recognising her contribution to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector.
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 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.
Vitamin C deficiency is more frequent in people living in areas of socio-economic disadvantage, prompting calls for targeted public health intervention.
Researchers from Northern Territory Health have been recognised for their work into life expectancy of Indigenous people in the Top End.
