This Month
- Opinion
- Mental health
Gentrified mental health has undermined access for the seriously ill
The high costs and limitations of access are unquestionably privileging the privileged.
- Updated
- Tanveer Ahmed
Men paid $760 to lose weight in ‘Game of Stones’ health scheme
A trial of a dieting program in which participants potentially lose money has been so successful that it will be rolled out nationally.
- Laura Donnelly
- Opinion
- Mental disorders
The five types of stalker – a clinical psychologist explains
“Baby Reindeer” accurately portrays the relentless intrusion into another person’s life and the damage it causes to the victims and the people around them.
- Dr Alan Underwood
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why the student protests make me optimistic about the future
If there is any failure in Australian universities it more likely lies with administrators, rather than student bodies.
- Adir Shiffman
- Opinion
- Mental health
Is it time to stop talking about mental illness?
I believe many young people are being encouraged to frame normal experiences as psychiatric conditions. There are even financial motivations.
- Peter Quarry
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The digital health black hole must be fixed
The Productivity Commission’s report on the failure of My Health Record should concern all Australians not only as taxpayers, but as consumers in an ageing society.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- The AFR View
No place for antisemitic incitement on campus
The protests that reduce the complex history of the Middle East to simplistic anti-Zionist slogans hardly align with universities’ founding institutional mission.
- The AFR View
Health portal ‘plagued by incomplete records and poor usability’
Poor usability and incomplete records are frustrating uptake of the My Health Record portal, while the Productivity Commission estimates benefits of around $5.4 billion a year if it can be made to work.
- Tom Burton
- Opinion
- University
No safe spaces for Jewish students at universities
Vice chancellors say what’s happening on campuses here is a million miles away from what’s happening in the US. That’s a statement of wishful thinking – not reality.
- John Roskam
April
Blaming students for housing crisis ‘simplistic’, universities say
A new report finds that conflating international students with the housing shortage is opportunistic and could have profound ramifications on the economy.
- Julie Hare
With these two steps, government could change culture of violence
Readers’ letters on ending platitudes about violence against women; why we need negative gearing; Peter Dutton’s nuclear dilemma; Elon Musk’s defence of free speech; and the value of taxing big super balances.
Meet the doctors whose virtual ED is easing the load on hospitals
In outer Melbourne, a virtual emergency department has offered 250,000 patients treatment and created a model to help keep ageing Baby Boomers out of hospital.
- Tom Burton
- Analysis
- Mental health
Why Schizophrenia no longer has to be a life sentence
Until the 1950s, there was no effective therapy and painful experimental treatments, such as brain surgery and sulphur injections, failed. That’s all changed.
- Jill Margo
OpenAI’s model all but matches doctors in assessing eye problems
Ophthalmology has been a big focus of efforts to put AI to clinical use and fix obstacles to take-up, such as the tendency of models to ‘hallucinate’ by creating fictitious data.
- Michael Peel
International student numbers slump as reforms bite
Only 46,570 students landed in Australia to begin their studies last month.
- Julie Hare
![“[Australia is] on the cusp of turning back the incidence of [breast] cancer, that has been going up and up,” Professor Kelly-Anne Phillips says.](http://web.archive.org./web/20240521115459/https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.1779%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_95/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_140%2Cq_88%2Cf_auto/8c09976f872186db14f4ea818d436316d6afce79)
How countries like Australia could prevent one in four breast cancers
While a global report has found up to a quarter of breast cancers in high-income countries can be prevented, Australia’s program is already under way.
- Jill Margo
Australian COVID-19 deaths hit new lows
After eight successive waves of COVID-19 infections, national COVID fatalities have dropped to below single digits.
- Tom Burton
As prostate cancer surges, Australia breaks new ground
As low and middle-income countries await a surge in prostate cancer, Australia is driving ahead with cutting-edge treatments and new ways of solving old problems.
- Jill Margo
The kids aren’t all right. Are phones really to blame?
In his new book Jonathan Haidt claims phones are the cause of the international epidemic of adolescent mental illness. And with that one tricky word, “cause,” he opens himself up to what’s likely to be a world of pain.
- Judith Warner
Childcare rebates could leap to $14b - but women still aren’t back at work
A key objective of the most recent changes to childcare subsidies was to encourage more women into the workforce, but so far they haven’t taken the bait.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
