The Department of Veterans Affairs in Australia released detailed plans on how a substantial funding package will be spent to improve veterans’ health care. In the recent Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal...
A new large-scale analysis published in The Lancet reviews adverse effects listed for statins. Researchers pooled data from 23 randomised trials looking at the most common statins to see which side ef...
The Victorian government plans to absorb VicHealth into the state health department to fix a budget gap. VicHealth is Australia’s first independent health promotion agency. It funded major campaigns l...
Memory concerns are a growing issue in Australian general practice. More patients present with changes in memory or thinking but do not meet dementia criteria, making early signs like subjective cogni...
The American Heart Association issued a scientific statement that Highlights gaps in heart attack care for women, calling out risks that affect care globally. In Australia, heart disease remains a lea...
A large, multi‑trial review from Oxford Population Health looks at statin side effects using data from randomised studies. It pooled results across 123,940 participants on statins versus placebo and 3...
Curtin University researchers publish findings in Nutrition after surveying 317 students from five Australian universities with a median age of 20. Participants were grouped by gaming time: low 0–5 ho...
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...
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...
The Phenotype Analyzer Chip is a blood test based device from the University of Queensland that shows how glioblastoma tumours respond to treatment using a simple blood sample. It reads extracellular...
Apple Watch hypertension alerts are live across Australia. The feature runs in the background and uses the optical heart sensor to track how blood vessels respond to each heartbeat. It analyses data o...
The Australian Medical Association warns Medicare not to restrict GP access to MBS item 55278, which covers renal duplex ultrasound with B mode imaging and integrated Doppler flow analysis of renal an...
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...
Monash University led the DNA Screen pilot to test nationwide genomic screening in adults aged 18 to 40, run from 2022 to 2024. More than 10,000 participants joined the study, with over 30,000 registe...
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 Therapeutic Goods Administration released its Compliance Principles for 2026–27. It sets out how the agency will monitor and enforce rules for therapeutic goods. The approach is designed to be agi...
A Productivity Commission inquiry on delivering quality care more efficiently has been finalised. It argues that investing in prevention and early intervention can reduce long-term health and social c...
Consultmed has been chosen by Eucalyptus to support Juniper, the weight management program. GPs can refer patients to Juniper through Consultmed, with full integration into practice management systems...
