Opinions

To ensure long-term resilience, we must protect and re-shape Australia’s world-class health and medical research workforce.

In Australia our long life expectancy is both a major public health achievement and a challenge, as the complexity in the care of older adults increases. 

Harm reduction has transformed responses to drug-related harm, but emerging evidence suggests current models fail to address the distinct risks associated with anabolic steroid use.

Timothy Piatkowski

Dissociation is a common and clinically significant trauma response. Clinicians must recognise it early and respond in ways that are safe, evidence-informed, and trauma-responsive.

Cathy Kezelman

The first national Emergency Laparotomy Clinical Care Standard aims to support a standardised approach to identification, assessment and treatment of time-critical abdominal conditions needing surgery, with a particular focus on high-risk and older patients.

Clare Skinner, Phoebe Holdenson Kimura, David Watters

Warning: this article contains details of injuries sustained during a terrorist attack.

Aidan Baron

A study led by the University of Queensland has analysed how genes can affect a child's body mass index (BMI) over time. The research also explores how these genetic factors may increase the risk of developing diseases such as heart disease or type 2 diabetes later in life.

Geng Wang

Australia has made significant advances in the prevention of cervical cancer, but progress on other gynaecological cancers is falling behind.

Yoland Antill, Clare Scott

Syphilis cases are on the rise, and inconsistent screening in general practice is leaving people at risk.

George Forgan-Smith, Karen Freilich