Love and other drugs — wrapping discussions from #RANZCP2019
From substance use and post-traumatic stress to matters of love and death, the 2019 Royal Australian... 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 devastating... Read more
(The article below is in two parts: an overview of recent developments in climate action, followed by an article from Dr Peter Tait urging public health officers to use their powers to advance climate... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell updates readers on a slew of recent reports and other articles, ranging from obesity to women’s health rights, and a... Read more
When the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released the latest findings from the national burden of disease study recently, it resulted in optimistic headlines like ‘We’re not ju... Read more
A couple of decades ago, I was working at The Australian and wrote a piece arguing in favour of voluntary euthanasia. People should have the right to decide when to end their life, I argued, as long a... Read more
The post below includes some of the snaps and selfies shared via Twitter at the Lowitja Institute’s International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference on the Larrakia Nation in Darwin last week.... Read more
Over the past 25 years mental illness has emerged from the behind the walls of the asylums and is recognised as one of the most serious and growing health challenges facing 21st century society. For s... Read more
Australians have been urged to consider civil disobedience to pressure governments to raise the age at which children can be locked up behind bars. The Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Dr K... Read more
Aboriginal author Bruce Pascoe received a rapturous response from delegates at the Lowitja Institute’s International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference in conference in Darwin on Wednesday. Pa... Read more
The Wellbeing Budget recently handed down in Aotearoa/New Zealand was a hot topic of conversation at the Public Health Prevention Conference in Melbourne last week (see tweets beneath this post from D... Read more
