A Patient Book with the largest collection of patient stories of diagnosis, treatment & survival from head and neck cancers ever published in Australia was launched last week, marking Wo... Read more
**WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains the names and images of deceased persons ** *Updated on July 28 with links to the speech by Abo... Read more
Analysis released this week by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre showed that the rate of accidental deaths due to opioids is increasing and has more than doubled among Australian... Read more
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) last week released a Discussion Paper ahead of a second round of stakeholder consultations on its inquiry, ordered last year by Attorney General B... Read more
Earlier this month the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care released the Second Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation, a trove of information that canvases expected... Read more
Australia’s mental health commissions on Wednesday have issued a consensus statement saying that the scheduled conclusion late this year of the Royal Commission into Institutional Resp... Read more
Shock and sadness greeted the news of the overnight death of Melbourne heart surgeon Dr Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann, 41, following an alleged assault at Box Hill Hospital on 30 May after he r... Read more
In the wake of London’s tragic Grenfell Tower fire, Professor Martin McKee has written an important piece for the British Medical Journal on why public health professionals “cann... Read more
As previous Croakey stories have outlined, pressure has been growing in Australia for a sugar tax on soft drinks, with a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) late last year supp... Read more
Long gone are the days when the tobacco industry could try to entice Australians to smoke particular brands with sophisticated, well-researched package design, but many countries around the... Read more
