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
Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Ross presented a stirring call to climate action in a presentation to the opening plenary of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 36th Annual Scientific M... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: United States psychiatrist Dr Daniel Fisher believes that people like him, who have been diagnosed and labelled with mental illness, are like the “canaries in t... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Climate change and its impact on health and health systems will be front and centre of this year’s annual summit of Australian and New Zealand emergency doctors in nipalun... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: The Productivity Commission inquiry into mental health has called on health services and medical colleges to address the bias, discrimination and bullying that peer w... 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
Marie McInerney writes: “If we replaced the current mental health system with something wonderful, what would it look like?” That was the question at the heart of a Declaration, launch... 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
