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She woke in a pool of blood: hospital misdiagnosed baby who swallowed button battery, coroner hears
What we would give to have another chance to hear your voice, to feel your kiss and to see you grow," wrote the Rees family in Isabella's tribute.
What we would give to have another chance to hear your voice, to feel your kiss and to see you grow," wrote the Rees family in Isabella's tribute.
Hundreds of Jetstar passengers are stranded in both Melbourne and Bangkok after a plane was grounded for engineering checks.
Adding to growing speculation that some urology patients are being fleeced, Medibank Private has revealed huge variations in the surgeon's fees its patients are charged for common prostate surgeries.
A controversial chemical commonly found in food containers has again been linked to poor health outcomes - this time in a study of embryos.
A federal court judge has criticised the failings of the Commonwealth's funding of private vocational education for allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to flow out of public coffers with little oversight.
Victorian corruption investigators have laid more than two dozen fraud charges against the former construction manager of the $630 million Bendigo Hospital project
Paramedics are being wrongly dispatched to triple-zero calls from up to 50 kilometres away by a failing tracking system that routinely loses ambulances on NSW roads.
A functional cure for HIV may have been found in a Queensland laboratory.
A disability group refused to accept a 10-year-old girl had been abused in their care.
Jacqueline Oliver was drenched and freezing when she was found stuck in a fence outside her aged-care home.
The Alzheimer's gene, which seriously raises the risk of developing dementia, is already affecting carriers by the age of three, shrinking their brains and lowering cognition, a study suggests.
The Sydney Morning Herald has significantly increased its lead as the country's best-read news outlet as Fairfax Media registered readership growth across its titles, according to new industry bench-mark figures.
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Patients will wait longer for an ambulance to reach them in suburbs furthest away from a superstation, the HSU warns.
An analysis of 3.9 million healthy non-smokers has found the excess risk of dying prematurely doubles for the overweight and moderately obese.
Three men whose passports were confiscated after ASIO warned they posed a potential national security threat secured jobs at an air freight depot next to Melbourne Airport.
Central coast chiropractor Chris Nelson has apologised to former senator Nova Peris for an "inexcusable" outburst of "malicious foul language" which he directed at her on Facebook.
The owner of a private college transferred $22 million into his family's account in one day, a court has heard.
A disability support group was fearful of losing funding, an inquiry has heard.
"Once-in-a-generation reform" of troubled vocational education sector announced.
An alleged paedophile left Australia without being questioned by police, a royal commission has heard
A childbirth course that dramatically reduced the rate of medical interventions has raised serious questions.
Kids think food and drink companies that sponsor their club are 'cool', says researcher.
Australia's chief medical officer Professor Chris Baggoley has announced his retirement after more than five years in the role.
The leading killers - cancer, heart disease and stroke - are coming later in life in wealthy countries as people in general live longer in good health.
Doctor have reconstructed how last year's outbreak in Seoul jumped from a single businessman to killing 26 and infecting 186.
Melanoma rates in Australia have nearly doubled in recent decades and the sunburnt country now has the world's second highest incidence of the skin cancer.
Schools associated with the Church of Scientology are receiving more government funding per student than hundreds of Australian public schools.
Four young Korean backpackers were allegedly paid as little as $8 an hour at a Yogurberry frozen yoghurt outlet in Sydney.
The mother of a young man with autism believes her son was denied justice.
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