Sustained ceasefire in Gaza the 'only way' to help the injured and displaced
With Gaza’s largest hospital in ruins, thousands of people killed, and millions displaced, health care workers yet again urge for an immediate and sustained ceasefire.
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Housing overhaul needed to tackle rheumatic heart disease
Building more and better living space is crucial to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Aboriginal people living in remote areas, yet the current model of remote housing is failing to improve conditions.
Why we must keep using the term 'long COVID'
Our understanding of long COVID is still evolving and incomplete, but the future looks brighter as we move beyond “what is it?” to “what can we do about it?”
GPs urged to consider the benefits of generative AI
Now is the time for “futurists” to start dreaming and for general practice to engage with generative AI.
Future of health care threatened by declining population
Declining fertility may help our damaged environments, but will create hugely complex social and economic problems and threaten health care as we know it, writes Dr Will Cairns in Part Two of this two-part series.
A healthy workplace culture goes beyond changing people’s behaviour
Health systems need to adopt a workplace culture centred on human wellbeing to build a healthy workplace culture that is fit for the modern era. Psychosocial hazard policies could be effective levers to drive this change...
Turning teal: Parliamentarians hear of ovarian cancer treatment gaps
Women with ovarian cancer have been “let down” by institutional and medical biases, the Assistant Health Minister said, as Parliamentarians, advocates and patients gathered for the Teal Ribbon Parliamentary Breakfast...
Climate change testing the limitations of human behaviour: Dr Will Cairns
Dr Will Cairns reflects on a chance childhood meeting with the physicist Leo Szilard, inventor of the atom bomb, and wonders about our capacity to address the challenges facing humankind.
11 December 2023
Tertiary students face unique mental health challenges
Tertiary education students experience higher levels of distress and mental disorder than both the general population and their age matched peers, requiring targeted mental health support.
