Lukas Hainz

A critical new proposal suggests that a key solution to the chronic overcrowding plaguing Australia's public hospitals lies not in building more wards, but in fundamentally rethinking how the nation cares for its most vulnerable at the end of life. In its 2026 Budget Submission, Palliative Care

A routine visit for a new pair of glasses or a preventative screening can take an unexpected turn when the intake form or a clinician begins asking about ethnicity, marital status, or housing stability. For many, these questions feel deeply personal and irrelevant to the immediate medical issue,

The advent of targeted radiopharmaceutical therapies like (177Lu)Lu-PSMA-617 has offered a significant new weapon in the fight against metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but predicting which patients will benefit most versus those who will suffer severe side effects remains a

The modern healthcare journey often begins not with a conversation but with a labyrinthine series of digital portals and automated phone trees, a reality that new AI aims to dismantle completely. For millions, managing health has become a second job defined by administrative burdens. In response, a

The subtle, steady hum of an autonomous surgical arm making an incision with microscopic precision is no longer the stuff of science fiction; it is a tangible reality reshaping industries at their core. A profound and accelerating convergence of artificial intelligence and robotics is ushering in a

A groundbreaking diagnostic technology now offers the ability to detect and begin curing hepatitis C within a single hour, yet this powerful tool remains largely out of reach due to a formidable financial barrier, creating a frustrating paradox where a cure exists but the path to identifying those

In courtrooms and at border crossings worldwide, determining an individual's true chronological age can be a pivotal factor that alters the course of a life, yet the methods used have long been fraught with significant ethical and medical concerns. A pioneering study from Ottow and colleagues

In a moment of fear or uncertainty about a new symptom, millions of people turn to the internet for immediate answers, a behavior now fraught with a new and insidious risk posed by artificial intelligence. A comprehensive investigation into Google's AI Overviews feature has uncovered a systemic

A recently disclosed data security incident at a prominent New York medical imaging provider has potentially exposed the sensitive personal and health information of an unknown number of patients and employees, highlighting the persistent cybersecurity challenges facing the healthcare industry.

A fundamental shift is rearchitecting the global healthcare technology landscape, transforming what was once a series of discretionary upgrades into an urgent operational and financial necessity for providers worldwide. The era of siloed, department-specific software is definitively over, replaced