Triage

Death-by-electorates. Premature mortality rates across the political divide.

Hospital delays, poor resuscitation and missed tests are contributing to hundreds of infant deaths in Victoria, a government report says. And some hospitals are known to be of concern.

'They aren't prolonging life, they're prolonging death.'

If you find yourself in need of a life-saving organ donation, ethnicity can affect how long you're stuck on the waiting list.

A blood test to predict the risk of premature birth as early as 18 weeks into pregnancy can detect signs even before symptoms present, according to international researchers.

Could this be the reason why so many women suffer from PMS?

This is such a distressing story and a reminder that abortion is still a crime in NSW.

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Knowing their unborn son had a rare condition in which his brain was growing outside of his skill, the couple expected to bury him shortly after birth. But Bentley had other plans.

The health system may be under far more strain than we thought.

Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in the hunt for a non-invasive breast cancer prevention tool for the estimated one in 400 women carrying the faulty BRCA1 gene

"It was only a matter of time before someone held them to account."

"Hopefully addressing this will prick the conscience of surgeons that feel justified in charging exorbitant rates in surgical services."

This state government program was meant to keep patients out of hospital. It did the exact opposite.

'We don't know how we'll cope through winter'

"None of us want to go back to the dark days of medicine.
It's easy to turn our back on it, but if we don't address antibiotic use ... people will be dying who otherwise could be saved."

Vaccination sceptics and natural medicine advocates positioning themselves as the Health Australia Party have landed the coveted first column on the NSW Senate ballot paper.

Shannon McKnight was 19 years old, dying from a rare form of leukaemia, and she just wanted to go home. This would not have been possible without two country GPs who volunteered their time and money to help her die at home.

Belinda Hitchcock knew there was something wrong with her baby, but she was fobbed off again and again.

These babies, born from genetically modified embryos, would have DNA from a mother, a father and from a female donor.