Introduction by Croakey: An eight-step strategy to improve access to palliative care in the the aged care sector has been released today. Palliative Care Australia’s Palli8 plan contai... Read more
A new 30-second video promoting six simple hygiene steps was developed to reduce the incidence of trachoma, but its message may also help stop the spread of COVID-19. Dr Mel Stoneham of Curt... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: For the first time in its 175-year history, Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate . “This year we are compelled to do so,” write the... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: With Victoria’s 14-day COVID-19 rolling case number average dropping to below 30 this week, Premier Daniel Andrews declared the state was on track to “winning the ba... Read more
Ahead of a global day of climate action this Friday (25 September), a young climate activist from Uganda, Vanessa Nakate, laments the lack of global attention to how the climate crisis is de... Read more
Clinicians, service providers and researchers have issued an urgent call for an innovation in personal protective equipment (PPE) – the ventilated hood – to be made available to remote heal... Read more
In September last year, Rachel Green went on maternity leave. By the time she returned to work, running a mental health and disability service provider, she was committed to embedding climat... Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic raises many human rights challenges and concerns, reports public health researcher Alison Barrett in her latest COVID-19 wrap. Human rights must be the foundation of an... Read more
A key strategy in global efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance is to reduce the unnecessary use of antimicrobial medicines, yet achieving this in Australia has proved to be slow and dif... Read more
A National Preventive Health Strategy that does not address the health impacts of climate change is certain to fail in its objectives, according to a joint statement released today by 32 key... Read more
