Akii Ngo was born with a life-threatening illness and has experienced chronic pain since the age of 8. She is one of millions of people living with chronic pain – and the stigma associated with it – every day in Australia. “I’ve…
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Sunday July 19 marked seven years since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that people seeking asylum, arriving by boat, will never be settled in Australia and would be processed offshore. Refugee advocate groups report that, as a result of the offshore detention…
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The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) says it is deeply concerned for the safety of people detained at the Mantra Bell City hotel at Preston in Melbourne, after a security guard has tested positive for COVID-19 Over 60 people, who were brought…
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Ongoing Pregnant Pause campaign launched by FARE Australia aims to inform women about dangers of alcohol consumption during pregnancy, stating that no level of consumption is safe. Recent polling undertaken by FARE in March 2020 reveals that almost a quarter (23 percent)…
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The twelfth year of Dry July kicked off this month, with more than 37,000 Australians giving up alcohol to raise funds for cancer treatment organisations in their local area. Katie Evans, the General Manager of Dry July Foundation, said that the initiative…
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Around the world, governments fund critically important medical research and development using public money — including to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Publicly funded research has led to dramatic healthcare innovations, but unfortunately, most countries rarely demand that the resulting health innovations be safeguarded…
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Beyond Blue is reminding people that mental health support is available online and over the phone as Stage 3 restrictions return in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire. People concerned about the coronavirus pandemic continue to seek support for their mental health in…
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When Anna Moresby was diagnosed with diabetes (type 1) as a four-year-old in wartime, her family were told she would not live to see her 30th birthday. Yet Anna has recently commemorated 80 years living with diabetes, making her one of Australia’s…
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The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomes Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) announcement to reduce the price of its tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline to USD$1.50 per day. Governments must now urgently scale up the use of the treatment…
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Australia will join an international clinical trial to test a new treatment in children with brain cancer, due to launch later this year. Brain cancer kills more children in Australia than any other cancer, with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare…
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