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A psychiatrist and a prolific author, he criticized what he referred to as a “nonsystem” that left vulnerable people on the streets to fend for themselves.
When Justin and Rachel Yerbury met as teenagers, they had no idea that he would become a world-leading scientist – studying a disease that would cause his own tragic decline
After she died — and just a year after her discovery — another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced.
Around one current or former emergency services worker dies from suicide every month. For military veterans, that rate is one every single week. Their families need support.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny was a trailblazer who developed her own radical treatment for polio sufferers. Her hometown of Nobby is ensuring her legacy lives on.
Physicians suffer one of the highest burnout rates among professionals. Dr. Kimberly Becher, one of two family practitioners in Clay County, West Virginia, learned the hard way.
A retired nurse came to the aid of a baby who had stopped breathing on a Spirit Airlines flight last week from Pittsburgh to Orlando.
Behind every hospital admission there are a plethora of hard-working health professionals doing everything in their power to comfort the confused, calm the stressed, and cure the ill. My recent experience confirms how lucky we are having these heroes in our midst and on our side.
People who feel compelled to help are ferrying casualties from intense fighting in the east to hospitals
From the moment the Ruby Princess docked in 2020 to the current wave of Omicron, healthcare workers have been on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s not over yet.
As the first medcial director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, he developed treatments for cancer and other diseases.
The physician and humanitarian embraced the world’s most vulnerable people, and saved more lives than can be counted.
Dr. Paul Farmer, who worked in Haiti, Rwanda and elsewhere around the world, has died in Rwanda. Farmer spent nearly the last four decades fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, Ebola, Zika, chikungunya and most recently COVID-19 on four continents.
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The next time you book yourself in for a cervical screen, spare a thought for the woman who endured a similar procedure every day for 21 years.
Susie Cone was one of a group of nurses who cared for Australian soldiers struck down by the deadly Spanish Flu in 1918. Her digitised diary provides a rare glimpse inside one quarantine station.
A renowned orthopedic surgeon, he developed innovative techniques for alpine Olympians. He also treated soccer, tennis and baseball stars.
John Gorman is probably the most famous Australian you've never heard of. His groundbreaking medical research to treat a blood disease has saved millions of babies' lives around the world and it wouldn't have happened if not for an ice box, an illegal flight and his sister-in-law.
Burnout and ‘compassion fatigue’ can compromise patient safety and signal health worker exhaustion. And they are a ticking time bomb for health care.
When Oona was born, she wasn't breathing, and spent a month in intensive care. Now, she's a nurse at the very same hospital where she was born, caring for babies going through the same thing.
Dr Albert Foreman discovered a passion for medicine later in life. Now 91, the Darwin practitioner still feels he has more to contribute to the profession.
Ongoing COVID-19 and other winter virus cases, as well as the state’s looming elective surgery backlog, are continuing to place pressure on hospitals.
So how should we praise nurses?
"We want acknowledgement that we are a skilled workforce and that we have gone to university, we are smart people, we're are professionals," she says.
"More acknowledging the intense, hard work that it takes to become a nurse and remain a nurse. We are a caring profession, but caring is a skill."
The World Health Organization said Wednesday it had verified 64 attacks on health-care facilities in Ukraine since the war began.
If you're looking for inspiration, look no further.
Paul Farmer redefined his field to make it more human, in part by being so wonderfully human himself.
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