Highly experienced physician and clinical safety expert Dr John Wakefield has been appointed as the director-general of Queensland Health, following the recent retirement of Michael…

People with disabilities are at much greater risk of living in unaffordable housing where the cost of keeping a roof over their heads can only…

Private patients are increasingly using their health insurance to get early access to high-demand hospital treatments in public hospitals – forgoing long waiting times and…

Winter has started, and with it, flu season. Inevitably, all of us (young, old and sick) have been implored to be immunised against influenza, with …

A mix of prevention, early intervention, innovative medicines and data analytics is leading to confidence we may be able to finally beat the scourge of…

NSW's lockout laws, imposed to curb violence in Sydney trouble spots, have produced a strong overall reduction in reported assaults, even if incidents in nearby…

A new strategic research alliance between the CSIRO and Swisse will build a body of scientific evidence on complementary medicine and help revolutionise the flourishing…

The Australian government had to fight every step of the way for its tobacco plain packaging regulation since it was introduced in 2012. But it…

Australia's chief health bureaucrat is excited by the opportunities for technology in healthcare. My Health Record "can improve treatment decisions, reduce adverse events, avoidable hospital…

Too many health policy decisions are based on values or incomplete research, argues Canadian professor John Lavis. Evidence, he tells policymakers here, must be used…

A Joint Health Commission starting in one state is a sound way to begin breaking the impasse between the Commonwealth and the states on health…

Vaccination myth-busting is getting a major government funding injection, but immunisation supporters don't need flashy campaigns, writes CIS policy analyst Helen Andrews. There are more…

Research on e-cigarettes outsourced by the Department of Health is due in June. It's a polarised debate: should vaping be encouraged and controlled, tightly restricted,…

There's a lack of evidence for Australia's current approach to regulating program gambling, a new paper by ANZSOG says. Harm minimisation needs more research work.