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The measure was tucked away in Services Australia’s budget papers. Note: This article has been updated with a response from the Department of Health and Aged Care. The $78.95 MBS item for reviewing a mental health care

The findings come from a new CommBank report published this week. A fifth of patients say they are using online telehealth services to obtain prescriptions as a cheaper alternative to seeing their doctor. The finding

The winners include Professor Fiona Wood, who was awarded an AM. The names range from Professor Fiona Wood and Dr Brett Sutton to ENT surgeon Professor Kelvin Kong and oncologist Clinical Associate Professor Judith

A Mundipharma decision to discontinue key opioids will impact not only pain management but also surgery patients, Minister for Health told. Doctors have warned the Federal Government that it needs to act to stop a looming crisis in palliative care and pain management due to clinicians’

The HCCC investigated the incident after receiving an anonymous complaint. A plastic surgeon has been reprimanded after he dropped a chin implant on a theatre floor before picking it up and placing it in a bath of Betadine and

The National Law does not attempt to dictate or define a doctor’s scope of practice. A highly profitable medical industry is undergoing a rebranding in the aftermath of the new laws banning doctors without the necessary training from

Google’s chief health officer says she understands the limitations when it comes to real medicine. “I have to say as a doc sometimes: ’Oh my, there’s this new stethoscope in my toolbox called a large language model, and it’s going to do a lot of amazing

There are concerns that the prescribing process “feels like it is managed by an algorithm or AI”, says its chair.

Telehealth has been one of the big winners from the COVID-19 pandemic

Professor Brendan Murphy, who spearheaded Australia’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic as Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, has been recognised with an AC for the Queen’s Birthday — Australia’s highest honour. He was a ubiquitous presence in our lives in 2020 as he grappled with pre-vacc…