From substance use and post-traumatic stress to matters of love and death, the 2019 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists annual congress in Cairns highlighted and explor... Read more
If Greg Hunt truly wants mental health to be his legacy as minister, it’s time to abandon business as usual in favour of a results-driven, consumer-centered shakeup of the system to pr... Read more
Insight or intrusion? That was the question posed about the use of data in a digitised world, and what it might mean for health, health care, health services, and a healthy society, at the 2... Read more
Culture, diversity and mutual learning were the key themes of this year’s annual meeting of Australian and New Zealand Psychiatrists, and the program delivered some refreshing insights... Read more
A third of all Australian prisoners were homeless before their incarceration and 40 percent have a diagnosed mental health condition, with one in three suffering a chronic illness and data s... Read more
Climate change and its effects on health, social determinants, promotion and prevention and food and nutrition will be the focus of a new Healthier Populations division of the World Health O... Read more
Eating disorders have been put front and centre of the Morrison government’s mental health platform, with dedicated treatments available under Medicare for the first time from later th... 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
The re-election of Scott Morrison’s conservative Liberal-National government has sparked a “human crisis” in Australia’s offshore immigration detention, with a surge... Read more
Ken Wyatt’s historic appointment as Australia’s first Aboriginal Cabinet minister and first Indigenous person to be Minister for Indigenous Australians has been widely acclaimed.... Read more
