The only chaplain in the COVID-19 section of a Montréal hospital offers spiritual care to patients and families, as well to staff, who have found themselves more intimately exposed to life and death.
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The COVID-19 pandemic gives us a chance to improve our elective surgery system when it restarts.
It’s time to talk to your loved ones about what care and treatment you’d want if you face death from COVID-19.
As the number of people hospitalised with COVID 19 rises, so do the number of people wanting to visit their sick loved ones. Who can visit?
A pulmonologist at Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis provides a firsthand look at how the hospital is preparing to allocate resources and supplies in response to coronavirus.
An emergency and critical care physician gives a dispatch from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
We’re likely to see more ‘fever clinics’ opening as coronavirus transmission takes hold in the community. But what are they? And do you need a fever to attend one?
Running, jumping, tackling, not to mention handling the ball, means Aussie Rules players risk injuries to their hands and wrists serious enough to send them to the emergency department.
Our research uses artificial intelligence to unblock hospital beds and helps doctors and nurses to know quickly which patients are safe to go home.
The NHS workforce reconfiguration so far has been an accountant’s response – designed to save money rather than being based upon actual clinical need.
Many Indigenous people tell us they find hospitals stressful, uncomfortable and alienating. Here’s how good design can help.
The design of children’s hospitals and other health facilities for young people have come a long way from the institutions of the past. Now, they’re a place to reduce stress and support mental health.
Twenty years after a landmark report on preventable deaths and injuries in hospitals, is the medical profession doing better?
It’s all very well having rights. But what do these rights really mean when you’re with your GP, in hospital or in a nursing home?
The WHO has called for the global scale-up of human milk banks.
Debates around South Africa’s health market inquiry must remember that not all proposals for regulating private economic activity are an attack on the market.
New findings show what the public really thinks about how we prioritise treatments at the end of people’s lives.
What to expect when you’re expecting an operation.
Overstretched ambulance services are increasingly being called out for non-emergencies.
One in four patients who stays overnight in hospital endures a complication.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Law, Deakin University
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Professor of Functional Recovery in Youth Mental Health, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Health Economics, Director Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Certified Occupational Hygienist, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Global Health and Development, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Law and Medicine, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Director, Evidence and Methods, National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce; Associate Professor (Research), Cochrane Australia, School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Monash University
