Today, we are launching a new series that investigates how to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment in Australia and globally. It is being published as a collaboration between Wiser Healthc... Read more
Michael Thorn writes: Shocking scandals continue to roll through the media cycle, featuring abuse of power and influence by the addictive industries, and alleging corruption and worse. Who h... Read more
The NSW Government is set to debate a bill that will have it become the last state to decriminalise abortion. A new campaign has begun – #Arrest Us. In the early 1970s eighty women dec... Read more
Colleagues, friends and admirers have rallied to support a crowdfunding campaign for Professor Chris Del Mar, an international leader in the evidence-based medicine movement who suffered a d... Read more
The recent Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting in Melbourne heard from clinicians and others at the forefront of efforts to reduce low value care. Marie McInerney covered #OKtoAsk2019... Read more
Researchers and health reformers have been urged to hone their skills in story-telling and to unlearn scientific teachings that do not value the power of narrative. In arguing for the merits... Read more
The latest news from the movement to reduce unnecessary use of tests and treatments will be profiled at a conference in Melbourne tomorrow (30 May). Marie McInerney is covering the 2019 Choo... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Evidence-based medicine is one of the central tenets of modern healthcare, but when it comes to managing chronic pain, homogenising one-size-fits approaches may be t... Read more
Please download, read and share a report compiling our coverage of the recent Lowitja Institute forum on knowledge translation success stories in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health... Read more
In a sterile, depersonalising remand environment designed to strip inmates of all individuality and ties to the familiar, the simple act of listening can be a profound connection to self. Th... Read more
