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The alcohol industry in Australia is designing and promoting alcohol products specifically for women, according to a new report investigating how products are being marketed as pink, palatable and hea... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Police should not be involved in most frontline mental health crisis responses because too often their interactions escalate and result in further distress, trauma, physical ha... 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 Government... Read more
A groundbreaking new study is examining how the media globally report on the benefits and harms of tests for healthy people. Dr Mary O’Keeffe, from the School of Public Health at the University of Syd... Read more
Rural health workforce shortages are a familiar challenge in addressing the health gap between rural and urban Australians. Generally the focus is on providers of health care but shortages also impac... Read more
With two major draft reports recommending major changes in the mental health and aged care sectors, the Federal Government is facing some tough decisions. Clearly, there is a need for fundamental refo... Read more
If the entire population of Perth could not access a dentist it would be considered a major health crisis. Yet new research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has found that in 2018-19 an... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Three specialist medical colleges today declared climate change a health emergency: the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), the Australian College of Rural and... Read more
This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week, an annual event that aims to draw attention to the effective use of antibiotics (a type of antimicrobial) in preventing and containing antimicrobial resis... Read more
Please join us for a timely #CroakeyGO – a collaborative act of walking journalism – at Sunshine, in Melbourne’s west, on Wednesday, 11 December to hear about how communities are responding to heatwav... Read more
