Public health

The Australian Health Biobank is Australia’s first national general population biobank. It provides an unprecedented opportunity to capture population-level trends in disease states and/or environmental exposures, and accelerate integration of scientific discoveries into policy, clinical practice, and future health innovations.

Craig Cormick, Andrew Crowden, Lisa Devereux, Juanita Fernando, Penelope Lello, Caroline Bull, Sarah Payton, Beverly Muhlhausler

Clinicians need to be aware of the growing grey market of injectable peptide-based substances being promoted online for weight loss.

Riashad Monjur, Milan Piya, Phillipa Hay, Veena Jayadev, Nic Kormas

An expert on gun violence in Australia has urged for a public health guided approach to gun control reforms in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.

Nance Haxton

The Public Health Association of Australia’s annual meeting brought together speakers with diverse viewpoints and perspectives on the seemingly intractable problem of preventive health in Australia

Steve Robson

The addition of fluoride to drinking water has improved dental health worldwide for over 70 years but is still hindered by misinformation; let’s look at the evidence.

Oliver AH Jones

The health care sector is a substantial contributor to the plastic pollution crisis due to our reliance on single-use plastic packaging.

Mitchell Hickson

Australians’ life expectancy has fallen for the first time in 30 years.

Sally Block

Most Australians die from multiple conditions as shown in new research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Katrina Sheehan, Karen Bishop, Michelle Gourley

The federal government will ban compounding pharmacies from producing replicas of popular diabetes and weight loss drug Ozempic (Novo Nordisk) following an investigation that found a compounding racket had marketed and sold illegal replicas of the drug in Australia and the United States.

Becca Whitehead