Tensions at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians have once again exploded. Its president-elect, Dr Sharmila Chandran, broke from the board last week and emailed…
A landmark statement on managing premenopausal women with suspected acute coronary syndrome has called for a low threshold for invasive angiography in patients with significant…
Queensland Health has two clashing problems: a staff shortage and a $960 million deficit. An audit in January found that Queensland Health’s deficit had leapt…
Payments to doctors for veterans’ compensation claims have risen by 35%, while the pay for filling forms has risen even more, from $14.70 per page…
Jess Burrey.Black holes of information in the political debates on healthcare are common — one has been pharmacist prescribing. Here for the first time, we…
Only two of 41 randomised controlled trials of semaglutide, tirzepatide and liraglutide have examined dietary change during treatment, an Australian review has found. With GLP-1…
A major company’s four-month pause on melatonin shipments has exposed how Australian parents are unknowingly breaking the law by ordering the S4 medicine online without…
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne was charged last month over its failure to prevent Makalie Watts-Owen, a 24-year-old Aboriginal woman, from taking their own life in…
There are some tough jobs in medicine but perhaps none tougher than being a board director of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. The events…
A private hospital company is laying down the gauntlet against the country’s largest insurer buying group, in the latest stoush between private hospitals and health…
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