Despite promising before the last election to fix the country's public hospitals, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the real health debate is starting only now.  [read more]comment (2)
More than one-quarter of patients presenting for the first time with lower back pain are sent for imaging, even though guidelines discourage the practice.  [read more]comment (1)
The "obsession" with curing sickness is leaving some terminally ill patients poorly cared for and unprepared for death, a new report says.  [read more]comment (1)