Private health insurers appear set to profit from the COVID-19 crisis, with a new report suggesting they will collectively reap a windfall of between $3.5 billion and $5.5 billion over the n... Read more
Much has been written and reported globally about heart-rending decisions made by health professionals in the face of a COVID-19 surge on who will receive intensive care treatment and who wi... Read more
Mark Ragg writes: The health sector has reacted with horror to the National Cabinet’s backdown on plans to suspend elective surgery in public and private hospitals at short notice. On the mo... Read more
Stacy Carter, Annette Braunack-Mayer and Dr Chris Degeling write: Ethics considers what actions and ways of being are right or wrong, good or bad, and what values and principles should guide... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Today, we start an occasional series examining artificial intelligence and algorithms, and their relationship to inequity. We do this in the knowledge that much of w... Read more
*** 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
