Rania is a health reporter at The Age.
Patients are languishing in emergency departments, they're faced with ever growing elective surgery waits, and hospital bed numbers aren't keeping apace with the population, an AMA report has found.
An outbreak of the potentially debilitating Ross River Virus in Victoria has continued to worsen with another 150 people inflected.
The outlook has improved for one badly injured survivor of the Bourke Street tragedy, who has been in a critical condition in hospital for nearly a month.
Four months after the Disney princesses were torn down from the walls and the twin cots were packed away unused, Janine and Denis Guingan are still agonising over the terrible question: could their baby daughters have been saved?Â
Dodgy health providers can now be named, shamed and banned in Victoria by a new complaints watchdog with bolstered powers that extend to unregistered practitioners and rogues who previously skirted regulators.
Handing down findings into the 2011 death of baby Emma Folwell Kunoâ, the coroner found problems with communication and collaboration between medical staff, leading up to the birth.
A ninth person has died from the freak thunderstorm asthma event in Melbourne last year.
Melbourne's key city hospitals were on Friday night caring for dozens of people battered by the car that careered through the CBD, and one had a witness so traumatised by the event they were suffering chest pains. Â
Sam doesn't want to have to go to the doctor every time he needs his asthma medication checked and soon he may not need to.
St Paul's Cathedral will proceed with Christmas services despite being a target of a thwarted terror plot as the church's leader calls for peace and reconciliation.
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