Tackling medical misogyny is about ensuring the wellbeing of a population Australia cannot afford to lose.
The state’s corruption commission is investigating claims that surgeons at one of the country’s top hospitals fraudulently billed WorkCover and private health funds.
A backlog of more than 17,000 MRIs and other scans at Nepean Hospital is putting patients at risk of delayed diagnoses,the hospital’s staff have warned.
More than a thousand women have shared their disturbing encounters with the medical system as part of an investigation into medical misogyny.
The Central Coast’s only public obstetric and gynaecology service is about to be severely depleted with the temporary loss of accredited trainee doctors.
The euthanasia watchdog has been urged to consider the impact of voluntary assisted dying refusal under current Victorian rules.
IBAC is investigating allegations surgeons at a major Melbourne hospital monopolised TAC patients and billed the insurer for operating on multiple patients at once.
Although Australia’s public health response to skin cancer risk should be celebrated,there are real and founded concerns that the gains made could be lost.
As stacks of dirty linen and hospital waste piled up,seven private hospitals issued their nurses and midwives with a stern warning.
Fewer people are visiting NSW emergency departments with non-urgent conditions,but emergency staff are overwhelmed with a record number of seriously ill patients.
Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.