Doctors will have to ensure Victoria's complex voluntary assisted dying laws don't prevent eligible candidates from accessing the scheme. 

It's one of several legal and ethical challenges doctors

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

A funeral parlour has been offering cash to GPs who can generate successful leads by referring on terminally ill patients and their families.

Supremacy Funerals Penrith sent out letters this month

Over the past decade, scientists have been talking about another new dawn of another new era where it will become possible to reverse genetic disorders using gene therapies.

The excitement rose a

A celebrated GP has been struck off the UK's medical register for enrolling ineligible patients into clinical trials he conducted on behalf of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

Dr Jerome Kerrane also acted

Doctors will have greater powers to evacuate asylum-seekers currently held in Australia’s offshore detention centres after Dr Kerryn Phelps' medivac bill finally passed federal parliament.

The

There is a lot of hype around Dr Kerryn Phelps’ asylum-seeker medivac proposal — but neither its advocates nor its detractors have been very clear about what it would actually do.

On Monday, Prime

Granting doctors more power to evacuate asylum seekers out of offshore detention facilities would jeopardise national security, the federal government has warned.

Independent MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has

Many papers on organ transplants in English-language medical journals don't meet international ethical standards because they include research involving organs that may have been harvested from

An independent doctor panel will review cases of asylum-seekers held in offshore detention needing possible medical evacuation to Australia.

Campaigners have long warned that detainees are being