Chronic Disease Management

Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care highlighted a broken system. A new study analysed 33 agetech companies selling AI for aged care across Australia, East Asia, Europe and North America. These...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has urged major reforms to how medicinal cannabis is prescribed in Australia. In a Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) consultation sub...

Australia’s latest ABS data show influenza deaths reached 1701 in 2025, the highest annual tally this century. The year also recorded more than 2100 deaths linked to COVID-19. Over 2023 to 2025 the in...

Researchers compared primary care in six rich nations and found it under unprecedented strain. The countries are the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zeala...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has tightened the medicinal cannabis framework in Australia. The changes take effect immediately for veterans who have not previously received prescriptions. From no...

The ASPREE study extension, ASPREE-XT, followed more than 14 000 older adults who had survived the initial trial period. After a median 8.6 years of additional follow-up, there was no link between dai...

Pancare Foundation has rolled out new clinical resources and surveillance guides to help health professionals spot pancreatic cancer earlier in Australia. Cancer Australia commissioned the materials....

Denise Lyons leads the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association. She says prevention belongs in primary care. Nurses should work at their full scope. Funding lags behind practice. She compare...

A national survey of current and former elite Australian cricketers shows high self-reported rates of melanoma and keratinocyte cancers across age groups. The work, published January 2026 in the Austr...

A large Danish registry study followed 876 805 women aged 45 and over for a median 14.3 years, tracking systemic menopausal hormone therapy prescriptions and deaths. About 11.9% filled at least one MH...

An international team led by the University of Melbourne has shown that everyday earbuds can monitor brain activity. They used earbud sensors to measure cochlear responses tied to cognitive load. A we...

The Department of Veterans' Affairs has updated the framework for the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, affecting how medicinal cannabis is subsidised for defence force veterans. The change...

A Cochrane Collaboration review pooled data from 22 randomized trials in overweight or obese adults to test whether intermittent fasting delivers better weight loss, quality of life or safety outcomes...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has issued a warning after laboratory tests found sildenafil in Natures Valley Collagen Builder tablets. The product contained about 199.3 mg of sildenafil per dos...

Health NZ has issued a Request for Information to explore how AI image reading could support breast screening. This marks an initial validation of available capabilities and approaches for AI in readi...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has updated the fee guidance for GPs who perform medical assessments and reports used in veteran compensation claims. The changes take effect on 9 February 2026 and...

The move from the Commonwealth Home Support Program to the new Support at Home model is drawing warnings from peak bodies, clinicians and regulators in Australia. COTA, Meals on Wheels, academics, pro...

The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study followed 5112 adults who were 18 to 30 years old at enrolment in 1985–86. It tracked cardiovascular health for a median of 34.1 year...

UNSW Sydney’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre reports an accelerating rise in harm from gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, in Australia. While overall use remains low compared with drugs like MD...