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Understanding whether a tool is regulated as an AI medical device can help doctors make more informed decisions about which tools are appropriate to use in their clinical practice. As AI becomes more ...

Around one in 20 Australian doctors will be named in a medical negligence claim. This guide covers what GPs need to know: duty of care, informed consent, documentation, and what to do when things go ...

Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States has been the first to successfully use a pig kidney to perform a “bridge” transplant for a 66 year-old man with kidney disease. A genetically ...

In recent years, reported cases of delusions, psychosis, and even suicide related to AI chatbot use, has led to concerns about the risk that some patients may have to develop AI psychosis. Not a ...

“Australia is a place where all people and communities are empowered and supported to access, understand and use health information and services to make informed decisions about their health and ...

Professional boundaries protect patients and doctors alike. But knowing where the line is — and recognising when it's at risk of blurring — is often harder in practice than in principle In general ...

Health evidence must be considered in the approval process of new coal and gas projects. Australia’s federal and Queensland governments say they have invested more than $5 billion since 2014 to ...

Running a medical practice means more than treating patients. Doctors must juggle staffing, billing, compliance and the daily realities of business ownership — on top of clinical work.

As Australia marks 90 years of nationally coordinated, high quality health and medical research funding, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is celebrating nine significant ...

A new initiative has helped Victorian health service staff publish 57 open access papers while avoiding more than $345,000 in publication fees. Australian hospital clinicians and researchers have ...

For many doctors, retirement isn’t a simple question of age. From mounting workload and burnout to financial readiness and life beyond medicine, the decision to step away from clinical practice is ...