A rapid pre publication study in Nature Medicine shows ChatGPT Health failed to recognise emergency medical scenarios in more than half of the tested cases. Researchers used 60 medical scenarios acros...
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...
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...
An Australian policy group, the Australian Institute of Health Executives, published a white paper arguing that emergency department funding must reflect patient complexity rather than throughput. EDs...
Gender data gaps underpin health outcomes. More than 75% of gender related data is over a decade old, limiting how governments and health systems design interventions. Women have long been underrepres...
Queensland has introduced safety rules that ban anyone under 16 from riding e-scooters, e-bikes and e-motorbikes. The change follows a parliamentary inquiry into e-mobility devices and its key recomme...
More than 1,300 Victorians have joined a class action against Johnson and Johnson over talcum powder. Plaintiffs allege the products contributed to ovarian cancer, mesothelioma and other reproductive...
The Lancet has launched a global commission on Skin Health. The work is led by the International League of Dermatological Societies. Australian experts Victoria Mar and Adriene Lee are among the membe...
Queensland plans to wind back a long-standing drug diversion program that targets first-time offenders with a warning and directs repeat offenders to a health-led diversion. The three-strike approach...
A Melbourne research team has developed a portable, point-of-care test that can detect four common sexually transmitted infections in under an hour. The CRISPR-based device tests for syphilis, gonorrh...
Four Corners highlighted a troubling pattern in Australian health care. A Melbourne gynaecologist, Simon Gordon, performed surgeries that removed ovaries and uteruses in dozens of young women who did...
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...
On a long-haul flight a doctor faced a critically ill patient with an oxygen sat of 73% and a GCS of 11. Dr Jillann Farmer shares practical lessons from the event, stressing that you don’t have to be...
Australia is rolling out its 2026 influenza vaccination guidance ahead of winter. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) highlights that a clinician’s recommendation is the st...
A nationwide retrospective study led by the ROSA Research Group analysed health outcomes for older residents in long term care across almost 3,000 Australian facilities from 2013 to 2019. The dataset...
Researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute evaluated a two phase treatment for adolescents with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder ARFID. The approach starts with an ARFID specifi...
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...
ATAGI released the official guidance for the 2026 influenza vaccines, emphasising a concerted push to lift uptake across the population. The chief medical officer, Professor Michael Kidd, underscored...
New Zealand completed a nationwide rollout of AI scribes in emergency departments. The system is live across all EDs and now covers about 1250 doctors and frontline staff, 250 more than initially anno...
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...
