New Melbourne University research shows preventable deaths from cardiovascular disease are rising in Australia. From 2007 to 2022, premature CVD deaths increased 19% among men and 13% among women, wit...
The Victorian Government will empower general practitioners to diagnose ADHD in children aged six and older and in adults. It will fund accredited training to get an initial 150 GPs diagnosing ADHD by...
The Thriving Kids Advisory Group has published its final report and backs a Medicare funded health check for three year olds. The move is part of the Thriving Kids model of care and comes after the go...
Monash University researchers say daily low-dose aspirin does not lower overall cancer risk in healthy older adults. The ASPREE project followed 19,114 Australian and American adults, with Australians...
GPs in Australia are stepping up to counter medical misinformation online. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and other health voices are warning patients about misleading o...
Australia’s Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs will run a wide review of how recent Medicare reforms affect rural primary care. The inquiry will assess the 1 November 2025 changes...
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen warn social media chatter about low testosterone shapes patient views. Mass screening for low testosterone is not clinically warranted. Many healthy men h...
The Australian government has postponed the full rollout of the Thriving Kids program. The program, a $2 billion initiative designed to ease pressure on the NDIS and provide early support for children...
A Danish study analysed grocery receipts from 1177 participants, with 293 starting GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy during the study period. The dataset included more than 80,000 receipts before treatme...
A NSW Primary Health Network released a viability analysis covering 189 general practices surveyed from July to October 2025 in the Hunter New England Central Coast region. The results show modest imp...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners reports a clear rise in patients presenting with workplace related mental health concerns. In a newsGP poll, 82% of GPs said they had seen more pa...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is refreshing its website and member portal. It is asking members from all career stages to provide input so the new digital space fits real needs...
Heat has become a steady part of Australia’s health picture. An RACGP expert says heatwaves place extra pressure on health services, especially general practice. Dr Nicole Sleeman, chair of RACGP clim...
Charles Darwin University is rolling out a new medical program in the Northern Territory. The Menzies Medical Program will welcome a first cohort of 42 students on 9 February, including two Aboriginal...
Apple Watch will now offer hypertension alerts in Australia after the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the feature in December. Apple expects more than one million people with undiagnosed hyp...
The Australian government will create a National Medicines Record within My Health Record. All prescribers will be required to record medicines related information, including drugs dispensed via teleh...
Australia is moving to a national medicines record that ties scripts to the My Health Record. Health minister Mark Butler announced two major reforms after a preventable overdose death: online telehea...
The federal government has announced reforms to create a National Medicines Record. This will give patients, prescribers and pharmacists a complete medicines history across digital health tools. As a...
Birregurra, a small rural town about 130 kilometres southwest of Melbourne, has a population around 1000 and currently relies on a single GP, Dr Jared Kilday. He is trying to attract another doctor to...
The RACGP has lodged an accreditation submission with the Australian Medical Council for a Rural Generalist Fellowship training program. This follows last year’s recognition of rural generalism as a s...
