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Traffic on Sydney's M4 motorway is brought to a halt as a four-wheel drive spins out of control with its driver sitting unconscious behind the wheel, as brave onlookers try to help.
Topics: accidents, health, community-and-society, prospect-2148
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Like it or not, we all need money. So how do we get a better handle on our money so it has a positive impact on our health and happiness?
Topics: health, psychology, mental-health, australia
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The media has been blocked from joining a Supreme Court visit to the site of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday to look at five alleged building defects.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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Doctors at the Nepean Hospital in western Sydney have welcomed a major upgrade announcement but say it does not go far enough to meet projected future demands and shows the Government is beholden to the richer suburbs' "medical mafia".
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, community-and-society, government-and-politics, penrith-2750, kingswood-2747, sydney-2000
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The Royal Hobart Hospital's mental health patients will move into the new temporary inpatient facility tomorrow, completing the decant of patients from the hospital's B Block.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, hobart-7000, tas
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In the business of bone donation, old hips are giving new life to people needing reconstructive surgery.
Topics: bones-and-muscles, health, medical-procedures, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe New South Wales Government will spend half a billion dollars upgrading Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west, one of the city's busiest, in a long-awaited redevelopment.
Topics: health-policy, health-administration, health, federal---state-issues, kingswood-2747, penrith-2750, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAn antiseptic that has been out of use for more than 50 years could help fight superbugs, as well as viral infections, and prevent future pandemics, Melbourne researchers say.
Topics: health, vaccines-and-immunity, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe Australian women running one of the world's largest studies of Indigenous mothers and babies know they're crucial.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, infant-health, health, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedLeading experts in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder believe Australia's record rates of Indigenous incarceration could be dramatically reduced if children were clinically assessed when their troubled behaviour first emerged in the classroom or at home.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, child-health-and-behaviour, pregnancy-and-childbirth, health, australia
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| UpdatedMelbourne in particular has had several well-documented thunderstorm-related asthma epidemics, but it still struck thousands of people with severe breathing difficulties.
Topics: asthma, diseases-and-disorders, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedCambodia is offering a limited amnesty to Australians who have paid for surrogacy services, saying they can collect their babies without fear of arrest.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, health, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, cambodia, australia
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| UpdatedA disease "virtually unheard of in non-Indigenous communities" is still running through remote townships and needs to be urgently eradicated, the Australian Medical Association says.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, heart-disease, health, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, australia, nt
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One of Papua New Guinea's most senior surgeons criticises a move to address a rural health crisis by bringing in "useless" doctors from Cuba.
Topics: health, world-politics, papua-new-guinea, cuba
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As the first Australian to win the Tour de France, Cadel Evans realised a lifelong dream. Now retired from racing, he speaks candidly about the ups and downs of life in the bicycle saddle.
Topics: family-and-children, adoption, sport, cycling, autobiography, health, drug-use, australia, ethiopia, france, switzerland
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| UpdatedThe people of Bougainville's Nissan Island are experiencing an unprecedented food shortage with their crops devastated by a series of extreme weather events culminating in a period of constant, torrential rain.
Topics: climate-change, health, weather, pacific, papua-new-guinea, bougainville
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| UpdatedPolice are waiting to question a man who was shot and dumped at a Brisbane hospital.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, health, police, coopers-plains-4108, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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It could take up to four times longer for medical staff to access paper records at the new Royal Adelaide compared with the existing hospital, analysis confirms.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAfter being bedridden for 12 years, a Queensland woman with the rare condition known as stiff person syndrome is able to walk again thanks to the work of Brisbane doctors.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-procedures, science-and-technology, health, toowoomba-4350, qld, brisbane-4000
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Topics: health, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, charities, alice-springs-0870, kintore-0872
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| UpdatedThe reasons for banning compensated surrogacy in developing countries don't apply in Australia.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, health, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, crime, cambodia, nepal, india, thailand, asia
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Topics: community-and-society, sexuality, health, diseases-and-disorders, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, youth, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedCranberry is a popular treatment for urinary tract infections. The thing is, on the whole, research fails to find any evidence cranberry works.
Topics: vitamins, womens-health, health, australia
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A hospital in north Queensland is the first in the state to trial the use of 3D cameras to treat patients with diabetes living in rural and remote areas.
Topics: health-administration, regional, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, health, diseases-and-disorders, diabetes, townsville-4810, qld, charters-towers-4820, torrens-creek-4816