Fighting disease with AI

Fully automated diagnostic techniques, including liquid handling robots, are poised to improve the lives of millions of people living with inflammatory diseases around the world.

Australia could lead the world in surgical AI

Australia and New Zealand could become international leaders in the safe use of artificial intelligence (AI) in surgery, but first there needs to be guidelines in place to safeguard patients, according to University of Adelaide experts.

AI at the bedside

Artificial Intelligence has already begun to transform healthcare, but can machine learning ever replace a doctor’s gut instincts about a real, live human patient?

First, do no harm

A prominent Monash academic argues that the medical system remains rife with overtreatment, overdiagnosis, and the medicalisation of normal conditions.

Quacks, cures and curiousities

Throughout human history, various methods have been used to determine the health of an individual and cure them of ills, and even the invention of modern evidence based medicine hasn’t affected the popularity of some ‘alternative’ treatments.

It’s time to modernise the National Medicines Policy

Australia’s 20-year-old National Medicines Policy has fallen behind a range of modern developments in healthcare and the time has come for a review.

New antibiotics give hope for treating multi-drug resistant bacteria

The rapid spread of multidrug resistant bacteria is a global health emergency but Australian researchers are helping to develop new approaches by targeting and disrupting key elements in bacterial cells.

Science or Snake Oil: do ‘rescue remedies’ ease stress?

‘Flower remedies’ may be pleasant to use, but do they actually do anyone any good?