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
Sydney radio talk show host Alan Jones on Tuesday apologised for comments he made to the head of the Sydney Opera House, after calling for her to be sacked for refusing to display an adverti... Read more
Ten thousand couples across Australia are set to have genetic carrier screening for conditions such as cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and fragile X syndrome, as part of a $20 milli... Read more
The Cochrane Collaboration is a respected, independent, not-for-profit international organisation (with a base in Australia) that is hailed for its mission to provide trusted health informat... Read more
As trusted professionals, much of what doctors do is not prescribed by laws or externally-imposed rules but rather is underpinned by a more general statement of principles and expectations,... Read more
