We often hear how overstretched Australia’s hospitals are. But what’s less often said is how many of those hospital stays may not have been necessary…

For all the talk of learning from COVID-19, global action has often lagged behind intent. That’s why the formal adoption of a new pandemic agreement…

Miscarriage is common. But a national clinical guidance on how to care for it? That’s new. For the first time, Australia has a national guideline to support clinical…

As climate disasters become more frequent, it’s not just homes and infrastructure that are being hit repeatedly—it’s people’s mental health too

In workplaces across Australia, millions of employees are silently powering through days marked by debilitating pain…

When we think of superbugs, we tend to picture antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But growing quietly alongside this well-known threat is a fungal crisis that is just as deadly

Nearly half of Australian adolescents are living with at least one noncommunicable disease or developmental condition…

Australia’s war on tobacco has no doubt achieved successes over the past few decades, with daily smoking rates falling from…

Australia’s dietary habits are heading in the wrong direction, with new research predicting a decline in fruit consumption and a surge…

For 16 years, World Sleep Day has been raising awareness about the importance of sleep health—this year it fell on March 14. Yet sleep remains an undervalued aspect

The latest Closing the Gap targets: key findings and implications report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that while progress has…

Some Australians are dying up to 13.6 years earlier than their metropolitan counterparts simply because of where they live. That’s one of the alarming findings in the…