Introduction by Croakey: As we look to 2021, governments, agencies and health sectors around the world must address the wider health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the neglect o... Read more
I don’t want my children and future generations to inherit a nuclear wasteland. Do you?” Posing the question is Eileen Phoenix Aquino Lam, a recent Master of Public Health graduate fro... Read more
Five priority areas to improve the treatment and lives of people with head and neck cancers are highlighted in a unique new video series, reports journalist and cancer survivor Julie McCross... Read more
In the article below, Dr Ray Moynihan explores some of the reasons why tackling the complex problem of too much medicine remains a big priority in the COVID era. This article is published as... Read more
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell reports on the latest developments in coronavirus research, the pandemic’s implications for people with HIV/AIDS and wider g... Read more
We hear increasingly about the importance of tackling overtreatment, but less often about how overtreatment plays out in the lives of patients and their families. In the article below, Brook... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: International Women’s Day is an opportunity for highlighting the wide-ranging contributions women make to health and the health sector, as well as the inequities exp... Read more
As Australia’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program approaches full implementation in 2020, a new standard for colonoscopy care is “a game changer” in assuring the appropriate... Read more
A groundbreaking new study is examining how the media globally report on the benefits and harms of tests for healthy people. Dr Mary O’Keeffe, from the School of Public Health at the Univers... Read more
In the lead up to the release of new draft guidelines on alcohol consumption, you only have to check the news headlines to see how the alcohol industry is strategising, according to Professo... Read more
