*** This article was updated on 27 November with a statement by Senator Jacqui Lambie *** As health professionals and human rights advocates mount a last-ditch effort to thwart the Morrison... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Many hundreds of women rallied in Sydney yesterday under the hashtag, #VoteProChoiceNSW, ahead of a critical vote in the NSW Parliament this week to decriminalise ab... Read more
According to the Medical Board of Australia, doctors who breach sexual boundaries with their patients exploit a power imbalance, betray trust, risk harming the patient emotionally and physic... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: In recent weeks, a little known 2012 study, conducted at an academic hospital in Milan, Italy and published in the specialist medical journal, Fertility and Sterilit... Read more
The NSW Government is set to debate a bill that will have it become the last state to decriminalise abortion. A new campaign has begun – #Arrest Us. In the early 1970s eighty women dec... Read more
The debate over the use of Medicare data to recruit consumers for a study on bi-polar disorder continues with both consumers and experts expressing concern about the practice and calling for... Read more
Note: QIMR have contacted Croakey to correct information in this morning’s story on the use of personal information by DHS. The post has been updated to include this information. Da... 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
Dr Megan Williams, Wiradjuri researcher head of the Indigenous Health Discipline at the UTS Graduate School of Health, was part of a large group of people working on the Ngadhuri-nya project... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Health professionals and their organisations, including medical colleges, have a moral, ethical and professional duty to speak out against the “institutional cr... Read more
