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If Australian lawmakers can learn anything from Canada's experience with euthanasia, it's that difficult issues don't finish with passing the law.
Topics: ethics, euthanasia, health, medical-ethics, canada
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| UpdatedFrance becomes the latest country to introduce an opt-out approach to organ donation, but despite the calls of proponents, it seems unlikely Australia will follow suit.
Topics: health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-ethics, australia, france
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| UpdatedNurofen's fine for misleading consumers is raised from $1.7 million to $6 million after a successful appeal by the ACCC.
Topics: courts-and-trials, consumer-protection, medical-ethics, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA cosmetic surgeon who admitted to taking a sedative and falling asleep while performing liposuction on a patient has his medical registration cancelled by New South Wales health authorities.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-ethics, medical-procedures, fairfield-2165
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Sue Jensen has beaten cancer once and intends to do so again. But, she is still hoping the Victorian Government sees fit to legalise assisted dying.
Topics: euthanasia, health-policy, ethics, medical-ethics, death, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA woman is wrongly diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer and undergoes six months of unnecessary chemotherapy at a NSW hospital, a Health Care Complaints Commission report reveals.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-procedures, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, nsw
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| UpdatedThe mother of cancer victim Kylie Monaghan, who spent her final months campaigning for voluntary euthanasia, wants SA Parliament to revisit the issue.
Topics: euthanasia, community-and-society, state-parliament, laws, medical-ethics, ethics, bio-ethics, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540
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| UpdatedA "substantial overdose" by hospital staff who were confused about a medication and how to measure it contributed to the death of an 88-year-old patient at a Sydney hospital, an inquest finds.
Topics: courts-and-trials, healthcare-facilities, medical-ethics, oxford-falls-2100
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October is Longevity Month, and some say with bio-breakthroughs happening more often than ever before, people born in the last few decades may be the first generation with the option of avoiding death.
Topics: bio-ethics, medical-ethics, science-and-technology, biotechnology, death, community-and-society, research, research-organisations, australia
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A group representing midwives in Australia has raised concerns about an increase in women birthing at home without any medical assistance.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, chinchilla-4413
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| UpdatedAn Emirati citizen seeks leave to have a sex change operation in what would be a first for the United Arab Emirates, newspapers report.
Topics: health, sexuality, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, medical-ethics, sexual-health, united-arab-emirates
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Dr Ben Goldacre, who seeks to expose bad science peddled by drug companies, alternative medicine and scaremongering journalists.
Topics: medical-research, medical-ethics, alternative-medicine, australia
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| UpdatedThe father of a dying eight-year-old girl in Brisbane wants special permission from the Queensland Government to use cannabis oil in hospital.
Topics: people, medical-ethics, cannabis, human-interest, health, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedAn 88-year-old grandmother was being treated for pneumonia and other health issues in a Sydney hospital when she was given an overdose of a potent derivative of morphine.
Topics: courts-and-trials, healthcare-facilities, medical-ethics, oxford-falls-2100
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When it comes to DNA testing, issues of privacy and ownership are still being worked out.
Topics: genetics, dna, dna-testing, health, medical-ethics, medical-history, medical-procedures, canberra-2600, act
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Two members of the assembly that awards the Nobel prize for medicine are to quit for failing to heed warnings about a major ethics scandal, the panel says.
Topics: health, medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-research, sweden
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| UpdatedTopics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, orange-2800
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Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-ethics, bullying, theatre, orange-2800
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| UpdatedThe craft of actors and the techniques of theatre are used in a program designed to help young doctors and medical students address workforce bullying and harassment.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, bullying, orange-2800
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A Canberra GP fighting allegations of inappropriate behaviour during a consult with a female patient will have to be chaperoned when seeing patients.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, medical-ethics, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedTransgender teenagers are risking their lives to buy hormones on the black market so they can transition, because they cannot access the Family Court, advocates say.
Topics: sexuality, community-and-society, family-and-children, law-crime-and-justice, children, adolescent-health, medical-ethics, sexual-health, health, australia
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Doping regulations are strict in the sporting world, but Professor Roger Pielke Junior says there is little regulation around athletes physically altering their bodies in order to gain an edge and he predicts para-athletics will be where "technology fuses with the human form".
Topics: doping-in-sports, paralympics, sport, olympics-summer, health, medical-ethics, bio-ethics, australia
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| UpdatedA woman who suffered "excruciating" pain after her breast burst following cosmetic surgery calls for greater transparency, after finding out her doctor had been sued several times for negligence.
Topics: medical-procedures, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-ethics, health, medical-history, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedLunatic asylums have gone out of fashion. But what has replaced them and why were they thought to be a good idea in the first place?
Topics: health, mental-health, history, medical-research, medical-procedures, medical-ethics, medical-history, australia
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| UpdatedAn IVF expert defends the right of parents who want to choose the sex of their third child as part of a review of IVF laws in Australia, saying it only affects a small number of families and is strictly regulated.
Topics: babies, family-and-children, community-and-society, medical-procedures, health, medical-ethics, ethics, melbourne-3000