Opinion
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Sex, drugs and illness: why teens need medical confidentiality
07 Apr 2013
By Rony Duncan, Senior Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research InstituteThis article first appeared in The Conversation on 5 March 2013, and can be viewed at: http://... -
Chiropractic Board needs to back vaccination
21 Apr 2013
By Dr Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist at Barwon HealthThis article first appeared in The Conversation on 21... -
So far, PCEHR an empty record
15 Jul 2013
By Associate Professor David Glance, Director of the Centre for Software Practice, University of Western AustraliaThis article was first published in The Conversation on 3 July... -
Members’ Forum
15 Jul 2013
People who turned 60 years earlier this month are among the first included in the expanded bowel cancer screening program under a $16 million Federal Government initiative, but a... -
The smoking paradox: why is Australia’s biggest killer being neglected?
12 Aug 2013
By Dr Colin Mendelsohn, Tobacco Treatment Specialist at the Brain & Mind Research Institute, Camperdown, Sydney and Vice-President of the Australian Association of Smoking... -
Obamacare survives US Govt shutdown, so what is it exactly?
14 Oct 2013
By Dr Lesley Russell, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Primary Healthcare Research Institute, Australian National University.This article first appeared in The Conversation on... -
The suicide bombers among us
21 Oct 2013
By Dr Paul Eleftheriou, Medical Administration (RACMA) Registrar, Epworth HealthCareSuicide was once a romanticised form of ending one’s life. For soldiers or freedom... -
Reform can fix health gap
04 Nov 2013
Professor Ian Ring, Professorial Fellow at the Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, suggests the review of Indigenous funding being headed by... -
A shared future for medical education
17 Dec 2013
By Professor Nick Hawkins, Professor of Pathology and Head of the School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Dr Dror Ben-Naim, adjunct... -
Small case studies point the way forward for health IT
07 Feb 2012
Several shining examples show us how information technology can be used effectively in health care, bridging communication gaps among doctors, nurses, patients and health service...
