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Politicians, parents, and industry experts criticise the "Kafkaesque" medical cannabis situation in South Australia.
Topics: medical-ethics, health, sa
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Orthopaedic patients at the new South East Regional Hospital are in the dark about when they will be operated on, as surgeons walk away in support of their colleague whose contract has not been renewed.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, bega-2550, nsw, australia
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The State Government assures doctors the next stage of a $550 million upgrade to Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west will begin within two years.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, hornsby-2077, nsw, sydney-2000
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Everyone has probably heard about the physical benefits of having sex, but are you aware of the long list of psychological benefits?
Topics: sexuality, community-and-society, health, australia
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Topics: swimming, olympics-summer, health, hong-kong, wodonga-3690
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Topics: health, swimming, olympics-summer, wangaratta-3677, wodonga-3690
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The number of people joining the National Disability Insurance Scheme is rising dramatically, according to official figures, but disability advocates say in the race to meet enrolment targets, people entering the NDIS are losing out.
Topics: disabilities, health, health-policy, health-insurance, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedThe medical clinic at Australia's detention centre on Manus Island may be shut down because its operator did not comply with medical registration laws, Papua New Guinea's Government says.
Topics: immigration, refugees, health, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government refuses to bow to a parliamentary committee's calls for a royal commission into alleged abuse, neglect and violence against people with disabilities.
Topics: disabilities, health, carers, community-and-society, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, human, australia
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Topics: rural, exercise-and-fitness, health, longreach-4730, qld, australia
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The doctor who gave methadone to an inmate at Canberra's jail two days prior to his death tells an inquest that it is "very unusual and unlikely" to die from such a small dosage.
Topics: drug-use, health, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Twenty-one-year-old Nick Dempsey's rehabilitation continues after he severely injured his spinal cord diving into his parents' pool.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, water-polo, albury-2640
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Topics: sport, health, albury-2640
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Topics: health, sport, albury-2640
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| UpdatedAre you guilty of weeing in the pool? Well, scientists now know how to accurately measure it.
Topics: science, swimming, health, lifestyle, offbeat, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedHow important is stretching when you exercise and does it prevent injuries? It might depend who you ask.
Topics: health, exercise-and-fitness, australia
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| UpdatedTourette's Syndrome doesn't always mean uncontrollable swearing, as Liberal MP Chris Crewther, who has the condition, explains.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, federal-government, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedThe small gene pool of Tasmania may be the butt of many jokes, but it could help find a breakthrough in prostate cancer research.
Topics: prostate-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, health, tas
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A woman who spent most of her life living with dissociative disorder explains how it began, how she was treated, and why she sometimes misses her "parts".
Topics: mental-health, health, child-abuse, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedA 23-year-old Ballarat woman who was vomiting and had a fever died hours after being told she probably had a virus and was not sick enough to be taken to hospital, an inquest is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, death, health, emergency-incidents, ballarat-3350, vic, australia
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A report commissioned by CommInsure into claims of unethical behaviour at the Commonwealth Bank's insurance arm clears the life insurer of "systemic" and "cultural" problems, despite not speaking to any of the victims nor Benjamin Koh, the whistleblower who revealed the scandal.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, consumer-protection, consumer-finance, banking, insurance, regulation, health, australia
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| UpdatedThe first patients to be legally allowed access medical cannabis in Victoria are a group of 29 critically ill children with severe epilepsy.
Topics: health, alternative-medicine, vic
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Spread across mismatching cabinets, hidden down hallways, and occasionally obscured by errant furniture, the Darwin Nursing Museum is very much an example of history that just crept into the building.
Topics: medical-history, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, volunteers, library-museum-and-gallery, human-interest, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedLaws are hurried through Queensland Parliament to retrospectively uphold more than 11,000 rulings by the state's Mental Health Review Tribunal, after it was revealed a member did not have the proper qualifications.
Topics: mental-health, health, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld
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The World Health Organisation is warning new antibiotics urgently need to be developed to combat 12 families of bacteria posing a great threat to human health. Some of these have already evolved into superbugs — so how do we combat these antibiotic-resistant bacteria?