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
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 13 January 2020. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our most widely read articles from 2019. This a... Read more
Please download, read and share this 81-page report compiling our coverage from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ recent annual scientific mee... Read more
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
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: 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
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
The complexities of chronic pelvic pain were discussed in-depth at the recent Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) annual scientific meeting... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Australian women face harmful inequities in access to abortion care, and obstetricians, gynaecologists and their College must do much more to push for change, a major meet... Read more
(This post has been updated with tweets and commentary from the report’s launch) The medical specialty dedicated to women’s health is taking steps to tackle male dominance in leadershi... Read more
