COTA Australia is circulating a petition calling on new health minister Greg Hunt to reverse a 2006 decision to exclude people in aged care from a Medicare-funded mental health program. Ian Yates, chief executive of COTA Australia, said over 175,000 ...

February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. To mark the occasion, there will be a function at Parliament House on Wednesday 8 February 2017 attended by government figures, and on Wednesday 22 February 2017, Australians around the country will host an ...

The Macular Disease Foundation of Australia (MDFA) today released a new report into the longterm funding requirements for aids and technologies to assist the 100,000 older Australians with vision loss or blindness. The report, entitled Low Vision, Quality of Life and ...

Residents taking nine or more medications have an 89 per cent higher risk of hospitalisation than those who take less than nine, the authors of a new study have said. Conducted by Monash University researchers and staff from Resthaven, the ...

Half of Australians aged 65 and over have experienced feelings of loneliness, new research has revealed. About 1.7 million participants of the study said they have felt lonely, up by almost 300,000 since the survey was last conducted in 2015. ...

“I don’t eat when I’m sick.” “The smell of food makes me feel nauseous.” “I’m quite depressed at the moment. When you get like that you don’t feel like eating much.” These were some of the sentiments shared by participants ...

People who are homeless and living with cognitive impairment often fall through the cracks, and different parts of the health system must collaborate more closely to provide the most appropriate support. That’s the call from Alzheimer’s Australia national interim chief ...

Dr Kim Chilman-Blair is the founder of Medicine X. Medicine X uses colourful and entertaining storytelling to demystifying illnesses and medical conditions that might be confusing patients after a diagnosis. The above and below image are examples of how Medicine ...