For how we live.
Most people who presented did not have diagnosed asthma. The investigation into the 2016 epidemic thunderstorm asthma event identified who was at risk, and it was not who health services expected.
Under-25s lost about 5 points on a 100-point wellbeing scale between 2019 and 2021. Adults 19 to 24 have clawed back two-thirds of that loss. Teenagers 15 to 18 have recovered barely a third.
PBAC recommended subsidized listing in November 2025 for adults with obesity and a history of heart attack or stroke. Price negotiations with Novo Nordisk had not concluded.
Vaping among 18-to-35-year-olds fell from 17.3% to 14.2% in a year, a real decline but a small one against how much vaping had grown before the crackdown.
The national framework tracking First Nations health finds real progress on smoking, education and specific diseases, alongside no movement on infant mortality and worsening suicide.
A $7.9 billion program now pays practices an additional 12.5% on top of the standard Medicare rebate for every bulk-billed visit — split evenly between the clinic and the doctor who sees the patient.
The new Aged Care Act mandates 215 minutes of direct care per resident per day. Since April, providers who don't actually deliver those minutes lose funding over it — not just a warning.
Fatal disease burden fell 10% in two decades. Non-fatal burden — the toll of living with illness rather than dying from it — rose 7% over the same period. Mental health diagnoses in young adults nearly doubled.
A 422-family cohort with a pre-ban baseline is the closest thing to a controlled test the world has. Researchers are also warning the law will make studying adolescents harder — including studying this.
A decade of eardrum repair delivered on Country across nine Queensland communities produced closure rates below metropolitan benchmarks — and a follow-up rate most urban surgical services do not achieve.
A national study built for Australia's first Climate Risk Assessment separates the two exposures across ED, inpatient, GP and prescription data. They do not act on the health system the same way.
START-AI reads triage comments, case notes and whether anyone ordered a blood test. Adding heart rate and blood pressure to the model produced no measurable improvement — a result the team published rather than buried.
A first consolidated audit of PBS and PHARMAC cardiovascular listings from 2023 to 2025 finds a widening access gap between two neighbouring countries with similar disease burdens.
Four years after the virus was first detected in south-eastern Australia, interviews in Tamworth find eligibility for a free vaccine has not translated into uptake.
A stepped-wedge trial across 165 women's and girls' Australian football teams shows how far implementation support moves uptake — and how much larger a trial would need to be to prove it prevents injuries.
A linked-registry cohort of New South Wales residents from 2001 to 2018 finds cancer risk in people with intellectual disability inverts with age — higher when young, lower after 50.
Integrated risk scores combine polygenic data with conventional risk factors. A readiness review lists what would have to exist first — and separately, 36% of older Australians had no skin check at all last year.
Fifty-five per cent of surveyed cricketers over 70 reported a basal cell carcinoma. A 29% response rate and self-reported diagnoses mean the number cannot be read as a rate — which is the finding.
The first large instrumented-mouthguard dataset from elite Australian football finds women absorb greater rotational acceleration per impact, and that men's ruckmen sit in a category of their own.
Australian teenagers harmed by the Black Summer fires showed no elevated depression, anxiety, distress, insomnia or suicidality two years later. The result runs against a systematic review published months earlier.
An Australian laboratory trial played 20-second noise bursts to 68 sleeping adults. Arousal probabilities were low for both, and lower for wind farm noise at 40 and 50 decibels.