Hospitals and Healthcare

Medical bills examined by experts reveals how Australian chronic pain sufferers are being apparently billed for fictitious services, inflated costs, and treatments for conditions they don't have.

Helping women find the language to describe their persistent pelvic pain symptoms can improve their chances of receiving the right care.

A recent Four Corners episode questioned the use of surgically implanted devices called spinal cord stimulators for chronic back pain. Here’s what the evidence says.

More than 3 million Australians have chronic pain. This treatment is popular, but it's putting lives at risk.

One person said they wanted a VR experience that allowed them to explore Paris again.

Fi Macrae, who has endometriosis, was told by doctors it wasn’t possible she could be in so much pain and maybe mood stabilisers would fix her head.

Statins are life-saving drugs, but about 1 in 10 people find the side effects to be so intolerable that they can’t continue taking the recommended dose.

The beneficial effect’s negative cousin is garnering more attention as Australian researchers say ‘social contagion’ is possible

The most common complaint among people with chronic pain is low back pain. Here’s what treatments do – and don’t – work.

People with chronic pain are suffering infections, shocks and even more pain from a device advertised as safe and effective. There are now calls for them to be recalled following a Four Corners investigation.

PainChek's Universal pain assessment tool combines AI, facial analysis technology and the NRS to enable best practice pain management for all people everywhere.

Sophie Walker was fit and active until she was struck down by osteoarthritis and a hip replacement was her only option. Here she describes her journey to recovery