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National affairs Lesley Russell 29 September 2017 We know the placebo effect exists, but do we know enough about its medical potential?
International Lesley Russell 18 September 2017 Neither Bernie Sanders’s scheme nor its Republican counterpart has any chance of being adopted, but they make the battle lines clear National affairs Lesley Russell 31 August 2017 White coat or no white coat? It matters more than you might think Essays & reportage Ken Hillman 24 August 2017 Extract | An intensive care specialist argues for more help for the carers of people suffering cognitive decline Books & arts Stephen Duckett 7 August 2017 Books | Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat helps steer us through the claims and counter claims
National affairs Lesley Russell 28 July 2017 Surgery grips the imagination, but most of the vital healthcare work goes on elsewhere
Books & arts Nick Haslam 3 July 2017 Books | When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin? National affairs Stephen Duckett 7 March 2017 As other countries have shown, there are better ways to save half a billion each year in health spending Essays & reportage Julie Shiels 1 December 2016 In a world-leading public health measure, highly effective anti-virals have been made available to treat Hepatitis C under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Podcasts Peter Clarke 24 November 2016 Peter Clarke talks to Bio21 researcher Chris Armstrong about new research that challenges popular views of this enigmatic illness
National affairs Lesley Russell 5 August 2016 More consultation, more investment and a wider view of healthcare needs – these are the necessary elements of an innovative scheme that could transform patient care, writes…
National affairs Lesley Russell 28 June 2016 To understand what’s at stake, we need to recall how successive governments have treated the scheme, argues Lesley Russell Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 13 April 2016 Working out whether a treatment works, and for how many people, is trickier than it sounds, writes Frank Bowden. Here’s how you should go about doing it Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 11 March 2016 Vaccination is not only justified by self-interest. It is also an act of altruism Books & arts Ben Wade 19 November 2015 Books | Through agitation, confrontation, persuasion and legislation a group of reformers helped shape today’s medical landscape, writes Ben Wade
National affairs Lesley Russell 13 November 2015 Nervousness about the end point of the federal government’s review of private health insurance is entirely justified, writes Lesley Russell
National affairs Ian McAuley & Jennifer Doggett & John Menadue 29 October 2015 Private health insurers are simply intermediaries between consumers and well-organised suppliers, write Ian McAuley, Jennifer Doggett and John Menadue.… National affairs John Quiggin 2 August 2015 Negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement have run aground on Washington’s attempt to restrict rather than free up medicines, writes John Quiggin From the archive Frank Bowden 17 December 2014 Atul Gawande has written an important book about the limits of medicine Books & arts David Le Couteur 28 July 2014 Why do so many dementia researchers hold to a single theory so fervently? An unsettling new book throws light on entrenched beliefs, writes David Le Couteur
National affairs Chris Del Mar 17 July 2014 The evidence has been clear for years: without a cutback in the use of antibiotics, healthcare faces major disruption
Books & arts Frank Bowden 20 June 2014 A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 18 March 2014 Screening for cervical cancer saves lives every day, so surely men should be screened for prostate cancer? Unfortunately it’s a bit more complicated than that, writes… Books & arts Frank Bowden 24 February 2014 We need our doctors to feel, writes Frank Bowden, but not so much that they stop thinking Essays & reportage Melissa Sweet 1 March 2013 Overuse of antibiotics is not only creating resistant bacteria but also changing the ecology of the human body, writes Melissa Sweet 
Books & arts Ken Hillman 29 March 2010 Ken Hillman reviews The Checklist Manifesto, by surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande
National affairs James Gillespie 9 March 2010 Kevin Rudd’s hospital plan kicks off what looks like being a long battle, writes James Gillespie National affairs Chris Merry 30 September 2009 Misunderstandings about organ transplants are contributing to Australia’s unsustainably low donor rates, writes surgeon Chris Merry National affairs Hannah Dahlen & Sally Tracy 18 March 2009 Private hospitals are safer than public hospitals for mothers and newborn babies, according to a study that made headlines last month. But there was less coverage when clinicians… National affairs Jennifer Doggett 3 December 2008 Although Labor’s SuperClinics make policy sense, resistance from doctors has slowed their implementation, writes Jennifer Doggett