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A new Australian study on the mortality gap for people experiencing severe mental health conditions compared with the general population shows that the gap has narrowed. But for psychotic disorders, ...

The climate crisis can feel overwhelming. During a busy workday as a clinician when you’re juggling time constraints, hygiene requirements, patient requests, and administrative demands, prioritising ...

The MJA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we live and work across Australia. We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were the first ...

The MJA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we live and work across Australia. We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were the first ...

The MJA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we live and work across Australia. We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were the first ...

Clinicians play a critical role in medical technology innovation; however, structured training in this discipline is lacking in Australia. We propose that formal education, using well validated ...

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 ...

Researchers exploring the relationship between nutrition and brain health say diet is a modifiable determinant of depression and anxiety.

I am a psychologist of almost 30 years’ experience. I read, with such despair, at the state of your governing bodies and ethos of your superiors. To ignore the mental health of those in the medical ...

Develop your mental 'detached observer log' for the speech, events etc. This makes it easier to make an actual log of events and coercive speech without flipping into victim state. Notice the drama ...

reduce children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing, which is the wallpaper in their lives, tracking them online, reaching them through sport sponsorship, television and on billboards in their ...