Hospitals and Healthcare

On the Pacific island of Nauru the disease has been addressed in the same way for 50 years, but evidence of other factors – from poor air to stress – challenge our assumptions

As the future of e-scooters is considered in South Australia, consideration should be given to the safety of people living with disabilities, Bethany Cody writes in this special report.

Two sisters, one in Lisbon and the other in New Jersey, show how Portugal provides a promising if imperfect model for improving a nation’s life expectancy.

The argument that private healthcare relieves pressure on the public system is misleading. Private care profits from failures of the public system and patients’ desperation for timely treatment.

The pandemic diverted resources from essential health needs of all kinds. Now America must rally the world to invest in recovery.

An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in the country’s largest indigenous reservation now under a health emergency declaration.

As retailers and tobacco companies call for the government to allow vapes to be sold behind the counter, GPs warn the tobacco lobby is using cynical strategies.

When we talk about people’s overall well-being, mental health has become an important consideration, and libraries are offering a number of related services. In some instances, libraries offer on-site activities including yoga, Tai Chi, meditation, and adult coloring sessions.

Hospitals across the United States are overwhelmed, and experts believe conditions will deteriorate in coming months.

The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.

As access to health care increases, there’s also a danger of getting too much of it.

How does Australia’s health care system compare to our peers in the OECD? Here we highlight five charts showing Australia’s relative performance.

Health experts are appalled as the new government plans to repeal the policy to fund tax cuts.

Doctors are experimenting with health-care reminders to promote vaccination, mammograms, and more.

In "The People's Hospital," Ricardo Nuila shows just how broken the American health-care system is — and how badly it serves those in its care.

Most winters, headlines warn that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is at "breaking point." The alarms sound over and over and over again. But the current crisis has set warning bells ringing louder than before.

“I’m so sorry that you’re still in the emergency room,” one doctor told a stroke patient who was waiting for days.

A new campaign, Sex Outside the City, is encouraging queer men in rural areas to get sexual health check-ups.

There is an opportunity here for a leader with vision to change the entire system for the better.

OPINION: Between our wealthiest suburbs and our poorest, injustice can be measured in life expectancy.

Sometimes you just can’t wait to see a doctor. With the addition of more virtual services during COVID, these days you have more options.