Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 13 January 2020. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our most widely read articles from 2019. This a... Read more
Please download, read and share this 81-page report compiling our coverage from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ recent annual scientific mee... Read more
In her final report from the recent Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ annual scientific meeting in Melbourne, Amy Coopes investigates some pressin... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Some 300,000 women will die across the globe this year as a result of pregnancy and one-quarter of them will be adolescent girls, according to a leading obstetrician-gynae... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: As a group who had sacrificed so much – sometimes everything – for their profession, it was time for doctors to start investing in themselves, or patients would suffer. Th... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion are common, significantly increase the odds of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes, and ought to be screened for by... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: A leading medical specialist has called for a paradigm shift to stop harmful commercial influences on clinical practice in the wake of the pelvic mesh scandal. Dr Ranee Th... Read more
The complexities of chronic pelvic pain were discussed in-depth at the recent Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) annual scientific meeting... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: About 200 stillbirths in Australia every year are preventable, with up to a third of all cases due to substandard care, a major meeting of the country’s obstetric doctors... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Stop assuming, start educating yourself, and continue developing the skills to deliver affirming, appropriate care to transgender patients. That was the message to obstetr... Read more
