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Health spending and health employment are surging in Australia. But it’s not inevitable, as the experience of other countries shows. And it’s not necessarily being driven by the ageing population.

Soldiers are told to be tough, but mental scars go undiagnosed. A new Crikey investigation Battle Scars examines post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues in younger veterans.

If journalists weren’t so busy calling a horse race, how might they cover health in the run-up to the federal election? Melissa Sweet enlists her fellow Croakey contributors to examine how health in the 2013 federal election.

The constant claims about the dangers of rising alcohol use in Australia don’t match reality. Crikey fact checks some of the statements made by the wowser lobby.

Some 150 international medical students don’t have intern placements for next due. The situation is critical, for students and the healthcare sector, writes Sydney University Medical Dean Bruce Robinson.

Students and staff at the University of Canberra are divided over the actions of a Catholic doctor at the university medical centre who refuses to prescribe contraception and suggested a gay student have a hormone test.

Back in August last year the Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced her version of keeping the promise made by her predecessor Kevin Rudd to end the blame game over improving the public hospital system.

At John Hopkins University in the United States they estimate that a fall in the rate of male circumcision from a current 55% rate to Europe’s 10% level would add an annual net $500 million to health care costs.

This week saw the release of the report Counting the Cost: The Impact of Young Men’s Mental Health on the Australian Economy. The issues of mental health treatment for young men are critical, writes Sebastian Rosenberg.

Derryn Hinch revealed he was told by doctors that the new liver may be infected with HIV or hepatitis before his surgery. Do many patients get offered risky organs? asks Bianca Kerr.

Wayne Swan’s essay on inequality in The Monthly was on the right track but the Treasurer should acquaint himself with the economic and social benefits of taking action to reduce health inequalities, says Professor Fran Baum.

Home birth will not go away, it is here to stay, so let us all share the responsibility for making it safe and satisfying, as should be our goal with all maternity care options, says associate professor of midwifery Hannah Dahlen.

Last week drug company CSL wrote to hospitals, advising them to start rationing an intravenous form of penicillin. But will it increase superbugs and what are they anyway? Crikey intern Greg Foyster investigates.