Choice between watching a child suffer or breaking the law
A new study is hoping to find out what pushes parents to risk prosecution to treat their child's epilepsy with cannabis.
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Kate Aubusson
Kate Aubusson is a journalist with Fairfax Media
Census website attacked by hackers, ABS claims
The census website was shut down after being attacked by foreign hackers, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.
The secret admission at the heart of the hospital scandals
"Do patients need to be informed?" The outrageous suggestion tears at the edges of an extraordinary week for the state's health system that saw announced the exposure of three critical medical errors at three separate Sydney hospitals.
Cancer patient left in dark over chemo scandal
A cancer patient caught up in the latest chemotherapy dosing scandal at a Sydney hospital said a senior hospital staff member told her not to "run to the media".
Australia's most expensive drugs revealed
They may be the most common drug in medicine cabinets across the country, but statins have been bumped from the top spot in the latest ranking of Australia's most costly drugs.
The radical plan to overhaul Medicare
An expert report has provided a blueprint for radical reforms to Medicare.
The hidden condition holding back students
Screening for a serious congenital condition may fail to identify babies at risk of developing poor skills in primary school, a world-first study suggests.
Pharmacists selling unproven medicines to be probed by review
A pharmacist's dual role as retailer and healthcare professional had blurred the line between treating people as customers or patients, a review has heard.
Mother-of-two hooked on codeine was taking 92 pills a day
Jessica Khachan is not the type of person that springs to mind when most Australians think of a drug addict.
'No idea how sick I was': the machine that kept Melissa alive
Melissa Allsop was thirty weeks pregnant when she lost consciousness. She woke up two months later, 800 kilometres away from her baby.
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