The HSE and University of Galway’s HIVE Lab kicked off a national rollout of the All-Islands Health Virtual Care Programme, extending to 12 offshore islands. Over the next two years, a universal digit...
March 2026 brings changes to My Health Record that let patients see limb X-ray results the moment they are uploaded. Other imaging tests such as CT, MRI, PET, ultrasound and torso scans become viewabl...
An opinion piece by Gohar Yazdabadi, CEO of COTA NSW, argues that ageing should be treated as a design challenge rather than a cost problem. Australians are living longer, with 80s now common and many...
Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed the SAFE score, a five minute questionnaire designed to flag adolescents and young women at risk of endometriosis. The tool converts response...
A survey of more than 2,200 Australian women and girls found violence against women is the top health concern. The results, published in BMC Women’s Health, were shared by Monash University researcher...
UK researchers report that pairing an AI driven analysis with an electronic stethoscope can identify clinically significant valvular heart disease more quickly and cheaply. In a multi centre study, 17...
A Canadian subcohort of the CHILD Cohort Study followed infants to age five to examine how early-life exposure to dog allergen affects asthma risk and lung function. In a sample exceeding 1,000 childr...
Consultmed has embedded a social prescribing feature into its national digital referral platform, enabling clinicians to issue digital social prescriptions for non-clinical services within their stand...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is pressing for a funded Pathways to Rural program. City GPs would spend four weeks a year in rural practices, with the aim of boosting rural GP c...
A new study compares primary care in six wealthy nations and finds the sector is undervalued and underfunded. Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has issued a fresh warning after lab tests confirmed some imported weight loss products marketed as GLP1 therapies are counterfeit. These items are sold online and...
A Danish study led by psychiatrists at Aarhus University and published in Acta Psychiatr Scand analysed digital health records from about 54,000 patients with diagnosed mental illness. The team found...
The ARTISTRY-1 trial tested switching people with HIV-1 from complex multi-tablet regimens to a once-daily bictegravir-lenacapavir single-tablet regimen. It enrolled 557 adults from 90 sites across 15...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has stepped up warnings about fake GLP-1 weight loss products. Recent tests on imports show many items marketed as GLP-1 receptor agonists or analogues conta...
A new AI based tool, the BRAIx risk score, uses breast scan images to estimate a woman's risk of developing breast cancer over the next four years. The Lancet Digital Health published the study detail...
The ACHIEVE-3 trial tested an oral GLP-1 receptor agonist, orforglipron, against oral semaglutide in 1698 adults with type 2 diabetes not adequately controlled on metformin. The study, funded by Eli L...
In 2022 the NSW Deputy State Coroner confirmed that Jeremy Webb, a teenager, died after eating beef sausages on a camping trip. It is Australia’s first documented fatal case of mammalian meat allergy...
From 1 March the Medicare Benefits Schedule will allow up to 20 rebated treatment sessions and eight assessment sessions for eligible patients under 25, delivered by speech pathologists and other alli...
