Essays & reportage
29 November 2011
Mental health had a big win in this year’s budget – and that’s when the fights began, writes Melissa Sweet in this joint investigation with Crikey
National affairs
26 September 2011
How should the World Health Organization adapt to a challenging international environment, asks Stephen Leeder
Books & arts
17 August 2011
Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida
Essays & reportage
3 August 2011
Bacterial infections might move more slowly than heart attacks, writes Frank Bowden, but they can be just as deadly
29 June 2011
In the thirty years since AIDS was first identified much has been achieved, says Lesley Russell, but much still needs to be done to strengthen the international response
National affairs
16 June 2011
A growing movement among US healthcare professionals is arguing that medical treatment can cause more harm than good, reports Melissa Sweet
National affairs
7 June 2011
Public health nurses at the 11th Street Family Health Services Center are committed to developing long-term relationships with the community, reports Melissa Sweet
Essays & reportage
5 April 2011
Hospitals, as much as relatives and friends, can find it hard to let go
Essays & reportage
28 March 2011
“Locational disadvantage” has an enormous impact on lives of many Australians. But an experiment in Sydney’s 2168 postcode area is yielding results
National affairs
17 February 2011
Markets and demand are transforming the health system, but the policy debate isn’t catching up, writes James Gillespie
National affairs
22 November 2010
The agreement delivered few, if any, of the benefits promised by its advocates, writes John Quiggin, but its adverse consequences have also been more limited than many…
Essays & reportage
26 October 2010
Talk about health policy reform often loses sight of the people in the system and their stories. Melissa Sweet watches two GPs in action in the south-west Sydney suburb…
National affairs
23 July 2010
The reasons for the Howard government’s electoral success are widely misunderstood
20 July 2010
Barack Obama’s policies are starting to fall into place. So why is his approval rating so low?
Essays & reportage
14 July 2010
When GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of initiatives to improve access to drugs in least-developed countries, its most radical proposal was for a “patent pool” to…
Essays & reportage
12 May 2010
As the disturbing growth in treatment of children for bipolar disorder shows, psychiatry’s overreliance on drugs – and especially newer, less effective and less…
National affairs
31 March 2010
Rationalising federal–state relations could make governments less not more accountable, argues Anthony Sibillin
Books & arts
29 March 2010
Ken Hillman reviews The Checklist Manifesto, by surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande
National affairs
9 March 2010
Kevin Rudd’s hospital plan kicks off what looks like being a long battle, writes James Gillespie
Essays & reportage
3 February 2010
Amid renewed calls for mass vaccinations in Australia, Melissa Sweet looks at the latest chapter in the international debate about swine flu and its implications for…
Essays & reportage
21 January 2010
How did such a poorly proven intervention become a routine end to many people’s lives, asks Ken Hillman in this extract from his new book
Essays & reportage
9 January 2010
GlaxoSmithKline created waves last year with a promise of cheaper drugs and patent waivers in developing countries. In this special report Qudsiya Karrim in Johannesburg…
Books & arts
9 December 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich probes the dark side of positive thinking — and how it helped create the global financial crisis
Books & arts
23 November 2009
Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering
10 November 2009
Can Democrats in the US Senate use the same techniques as their colleagues in the House to turn healthcare reforms into law, asks Lesley Russell
29 October 2009
The prognosis for healthcare reform in the United States is improving by the day, writes Lesley Russell in Washington
15 October 2009
The British debate over breastfeeding in public reveals a puzzling double standard, writes Frank Bongiorno in London
National affairs
30 September 2009
Misunderstandings about organ transplants are contributing to Australia’s unsustainably low donor rates, writes surgeon Chris Merry
Essays & reportage
21 September 2009
The Medicare Select proposal has opened up a new front in the health debate. Melissa Sweet talks to supporters and sceptics
4 September 2009
The United States’ acrimonious healthcare debate is having almost as much impact across the Atlantic, where the National Health Service has become a rallying point for both…