Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
The interconnections between planetary health and human health were under the spotlight at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s online conference today – check the Twitter... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Few Australians have been untouched by the devastation caused by the 2019-2020 bushfires. Thirty-three people lost their lives as a direct result of the fires, more... Read more
COVID-19 slashed health-care use by more than one-third across the globe. But the news isn’t all bad
From early in the pandemic health authorities have been warning Australians not to neglect their regular health care, amid a worrying decline in screening for breast, bowel and cervical canc... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The COVID-19 pandemic has, among much else, brought home the real risk of patient harm, according to a new report for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and... Read more
Australian rural and regional health professionals sounded an urgent warning early in the coronavirus pandemic that they were at the “tail end” of the supply chain for staff and resources an... Read more
Senior doctors from the Albury Wodonga border region warned last weekend that border restrictions put in place by the New South Wales Government to prevent a spread of Victoria’s coron... Read more
As research on the health impact of the fire season continues, the lessons are becoming clearer, writes Jennifer Doggett. This article is cross-published from Inside Story, with permission.... Read more
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell looks at coronavirus issues, including the impact of obesity, Italian insights on asymptomatic infection, concern about what is ha... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Rural and metropolitan GPs and a leading Emergency Department doctor open up to Croakey about their critical personal and professional pressures and concerns during... Read more
