Last week, a video on Facebook surfaced showing a chiropractor performing ‘spinal manipulation’ on a newborn using a device called the ‘activator’ — or, as those with medical training sometimes call

AHPRA wants to put practitioners’ aliases and assumed names on its publicly searchable database.

The regulator says it should be given the power to unilaterally record anglicised and other adopted

Doctors who offer alternative therapies would be warned against initiating treatment without a “reasonable expectation” of clinical benefit, under new guidelines proposed by the Medical Board of

A GP charged with filming and sexually assaulting his female patients has been found dead in a Victorian park.

Dr Stewart Geoffrey Moroney, 68, was due in court next month, facing more than 20

The plan to change the threshold for mandatory reporting of impaired practitioners has passed its first parliamentary hurdle, despite being labelled “confusing and problematic” by doctors.

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More “hurting” doctors will take their own lives if state and territory governments forge ahead with planned mental health mandatory reporting laws, the head of the AMA has told politicians.

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Around 12% of complaints being lodged against health practitioners to AHPRA are by their peers, a new study has found.

An analysis of all notifications made to the watchdog between 2011 and 2016 did

New rules on sexual boundaries between doctors and patients that warn against unnecessary physical examinations will come into effect next month.

The Medical Board of Australia has released the final

AHPRA says it will investigate privacy safeguards for people making notifications, after a GP was jailed for attempting to murder a pharmacist over a complaint she made against him.

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A proposal by health ministers to force doctors to disclose details of negligence settlements to the Medical Board of Australia has been savaged by the AMA.

The idea — drawn up by the Council of