Kate Aubusson

'Gifted' campaign pushes for ethnic equality for transplant patients

Kate Aubusson "Not many mothers get to test their unconditional love like this" says Rita Germanos.

'My body was a political stalemate': NSW has the abortion law debate it has been avoiding for 100 years

Anna Groth waited for five days in a hospital after a botched abortion.

Kate Aubusson It took Anna Groth five days to get the emergency procedure she needed.

NSW budget 2016: Health system burden may be underestimated, says AMA NSW

A rise in one category of emergency department admissions is

Kate Aubusson A jump in one category of emergency department admissions has doctors worried.

'Narcissistic' surgeons charge cancer patients exorbitant out-of-pocket costs without disclosing alternatives

Mark Brandt and his wife Linda used their savings to pay his out-of-pocket health costs.

Kate Aubusson Cancer patients are being charged exorbitant out-of-pocket costs for "flashy" surgeries by surgeons who don't disclose the full financial burden or equally effective alternatives in the public...

A bone breaks every 3.4 minutes across Australia, osteoporosis report shows

A new online tool will allow the public to assess their risk of fracture.

Kate Aubusson Online tool to predict your risk launched as osteoporosis rate rises in Australia.

Chronic Disease Program to cut hospitalisation upped admissions

Common law and legislation relating to futile care are

Kate Aubusson It was supposed to keep people out of hospital. It didn't quite work out that way.

NSW state budget 2016: $1 million to fund Nepean Hospital planning as doctors warn of 'crisis' now

Nepean Hospital has been allocated $1 million in funding for planning in the next budget.

Kate Aubusson A Sydney hospital in 'crisis mode' will get just $1 million in next week's state budget.

Australia's high rates of antibiotics overuse revealed in Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care report

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Kate Aubusson Australia's high rates of antibiotics misuse risk sending us back to the dark ages of medicine.

Screen all children for autism to combat 'devastating' diagnosis delays, says psychiatrist Valsamma Eapen

Belinda Hitchcock's nine year old son Brad has autism and had an 18 month delay in diagnosis. Photos supplied by Autism Awareness Australia.

Kate Aubusson By the time Bradley turned two he had lost the ability to speak.

NSW state budget 2016: Funding boost for paramedics won't dent wait times, unions say

Two 16-year-old girls and two other women in their teens were seriously injured in a car crash.

Kate Aubusson A health budget injection to recruit just 85 new paramedics is 'quite simply not enough', unions say.

Antidepressants ineffective and harmful for children and teens, major review finds

The risks outweigh the benefits for most antidepressants prescribed to children.

Kate Aubusson Study findings have "disturbing implications" for treating depression in young people, psychiatrist warns.

People can't stop laughing at this anti-plain packaging ad and its 'terrible' Australian accent

The clips claim to debunk national data showing the success of plain packaging policies.

Kate Aubusson ''That accent is about as authentic and credible as the facts alleged.''

Worrying rise in accidental overdose of prescription drug methotrexate

Dr Rose Cairns at the NSW Poisons Information Centre said patients can easily mistake their weekly methotrexate dose with one of their daily medications.

Kate Aubusson Accidental overdosing of a drug used to treat arthritis and other common conditions has been linked to multiple avoidable deaths.

Child abuse leaves mysterious physical scars in adulthood: psychiatrist

Kate Aubusson The effects of child abuse linger in the bodies of victims long after they've grown up, an Australian psychiatrist says.

Type 2 diabetes: weight-loss surgery should be a standard treatment, experts say

The international experts recommended the surgery for obese T2 diabetes.

Kate Aubusson The type 2 diabetes pandemic demands a radical change in treatment, experts say.

Fears palliative care staff shortage could affect dying patients in final days

Kate Aubusson Anxiety was constant for 22-year-old Steph Ewing's family during her final days.

Game-changing HIV drug trial makes gay icon of health minister Jillian Skinner

Tom Spillane is part of a PrEP trial to help stop the spread of new HIV infections.

Kate Aubusson Talking about his sex life is not a comfortable prospect for Tom Spillane, but this anxiety pales in comparison to a gnawing fear that dogged him for much of his 20s.

Inside Kurtley Beale's busted knee

Left: An X-ray shows the normal location of a kneecap. Right: The kneecap has moved up the leg due to a patella tendon rupture. (These are not Kurtley Beale's X-rays).

Kate Aubusson, Health Editor It was a massive blow to the Waratahs' star playmaker, but Kurtley Beale's knee injury could have been far worse.

Chiropractors allegedly caught sneaking into maternity wards to treat newborns

Chiropractor Grant Bond posted a photo on Facebook showing a newborn in a Wollongong Hospital.

Kate Aubusson and Rania Spooner "She said the chiro had to sneak in like some sort of criminal and pretend to be a visitor because the hospital won't let her do her work."

Smoking rates are falling but older people are smoking as much as ever, NSW Health data finds

Nov 22, Sun Herald, The Goss, Jenna Clarke, Shane Warne. Pic credit: Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images

Kate Aubusson Rusted-on older smokers are resisting stubbing out their cigarettes, as younger generations drive a dramatic drop in smoking rates, NSW Health data reveals.