One in ten Australian women report disrespectful or abusive care in childbirth
Having a baby can be an empowering experience when women are treated with kindness and respect.
Dec 6, 2022
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Having a baby can be an empowering experience when women are treated with kindness and respect.
Dec 6, 2022
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About 1 in 5 young Australians will experience a mental health problem like depression or anxiety each year. The COVID pandemic has only intensified mental health concerns in young people.
Dec 3, 2022
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Vaccine-resistant pneumonia has increased since a vaccine targeting 13 serotypes of the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria was introduced into the Australian routine childhood immunization program.
Dec 1, 2022
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Nine in 10 Australians would participate in preventive DNA screening for risk of medically actionable conditions, a new national survey has found.
Dec 1, 2022
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Professor Sue Davis, AO, is a pioneer and leading expert in women's health in Australia, which is why she has the letters after her nameāan Officer of the Order of Australia, awarded last year.
Nov 25, 2022
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Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a "catastrophic moral failure," just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in Australia has been fast, with vaccination rates for younger children initially mirroring that of adults and adolescents, but plateauing in March 2022, with only 51% of Australian children aged ...
Nov 21, 2022
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Risk of death and 12-month mortality among critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit are higher for Indigenous than non-Indigenous people, according to research published today by the Medical Journal of ...
Nov 21, 2022
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If nothing is done to improve the health of Australia's male truck drivers, 6,067 lives and AU$2.6 billion in productivity could be lost over the next 10 years, Monash University-led research has found.
Nov 21, 2022
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Australians undergoing a knee replacement operation are at a higher risk of needing further surgery if they're obese.
Nov 15, 2022
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