Daughter's nursing home nightmare: what happened to Nita?
Nita was in her 90s and deteriorating from advanced Alzheimers.
Julia Medew is Health Editor at The Age.
Nita was in her 90s and deteriorating from advanced Alzheimers.
Some parents do not trust GPs to manage their child's health needs and many GPs themselves are not confident treating chronic illnesses in children, research suggests.
Anxious parents and time poor GPs are sending children to specialist doctors for constipation, bed wetting, and concerns about how tall or short they are, contributing to long waiting lists for care in public hospitals.
It was about 10am on a Sunday in August when Linda McIver's heart started worrying her.
Seriously ill Victorians are being put at grave risk in overcrowded emergency departments where paramedics are still regularly getting stuck in long queues, doctors warn.
Australian researchers are recruiting children with peanut allergies to try an experimental vaccine that could free them of their life threatening condition.
Dozens of Victorian public hospitals are receiving funding to improve their fetal surveillance equipment in the wake of the Bacchus Marsh infant death scandal.
Men with early prostate cancer who choose to closely monitor their disease are just as likely to survive at least 10 years as those who have surgery or radiation.
One of Australia's largest health insurers, Bupa, is examining thousands of rejected claims over the past five years due to an error in its system.
Too many Australian doctors are splitting their time between public and private hospitals, undermining efficiency and potentially contributing to delays for patients, a health system expert says.
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