Books & arts
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
17 July 2014
The evidence has been clear for years: without a cutback in the use of antibiotics, healthcare faces major disruption
Books & arts
20 June 2014
A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre
Essays & reportage
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
24 February 2014
We need our doctors to feel, writes Frank Bowden, but not so much that they stop thinking
Essays & reportage
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
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
National affairs
30 September 2009
Misunderstandings about organ transplants are contributing to Australia’s unsustainably low donor rates, writes surgeon Chris Merry
National affairs
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…
