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Health report card reveals our new biggest killer
How well did Australians score on our national report card?
Kate Aubusson is a journalist with Fairfax Media
How well did Australians score on our national report card?
The wave of gastroenteritis outbreaks that affected hundreds of thousands of Australians over winter were caused by not one but three new highly contagious norovirus strains, UNSW researchers found.
Misleading reports warning patients off taking their statins have exaggerated their harms and underestimated their benefits, say the researchers of a major review.
NSW Ambulance has hidden from public view Facebook comments by a former paramedic who responded to a woman's cry for help and criticised his old employer on an RUOK post.
NSW hospitals have been hit by a "tsunami" of sicker patients in greater numbers, the state's peak medical body warns.
The parents of the newborn girl injured in a nitrous oxide gassing in hospital have spoken about the catastrophic error.
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A miscarried baby was mistakenly cremated in a tragic hospital mix up that robbed grieving parents of being able to bury their child.
The family of the baby boy who died after being given the wrong gas at a Sydney hospital is deeply distressed by the systemic failures revealed by an investigation into the shocking incident.
The cluster of recent NSW hospital scandals have severely damaged the public's perception of the state's health system, an exclusive poll reveals
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