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Host: John Barron
Panel: Tessa Khan, Norman Swan and Sharri Markson
The panel discusses Pauline Hanson’s immunisation comments, prescription drug prices, medical specialist fees & the effectiveness of lock-out laws.
Topics: community-and-society, health, australia
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After lengthy construction delays and legal bickering, the doors of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital have been thrown open for a first look at the facility.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSenior doctors at The Tweed Hospital on the NSW far north coast say patients are being forced to go across the border to Queensland because the facility is at breaking point.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, health, healthcare-facilities, tweed-heads-south-2486
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| UpdatedA patient at Darwin Private Hospital who died following elective surgery waited 36 hours before receiving appropriate treatment for a complication, a coronial inquest in Darwin hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, healthcare-facilities, health, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedHoniara's National Referral Hospital has welcomed the donation of a machine that allows doctors to perform keyhole surgery.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, pacific, solomon-islands
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Our habits drive many of the choices we make every single day. So how do they influence us and how might we change them?
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| UpdatedThere is an up to 400 per cent variation in the out-of-pocket payments patients make to medical specialists, with the biggest difference of fees in neurology, says a report in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Topics: health, health-administration, health-policy, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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| UpdatedA 3D printing company is providing much-needed medical supplies to remote areas of earthquake-recovering Nepal, where basic tools such as tweezers and otoscopes are next to impossible to source.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, nepal, asia
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WA Premier Colin Barnett admits his dramatic weight-loss last year was due to a blood disorder, despite previously denying he had any health issues, but says he no longer has the condition and is "fit and fine".
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, health, wa
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| UpdatedBeverley O'Connor looks at why efforts to curb the spread of HIV remain a challenge for the gay and lesbian community in the Asia Pacific region.
Topics: health, sexual-health, australia
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| UpdatedFive Iraqi children and two women are receiving treatment for exposure to chemical agents, the International Committee of the Red Cross says, in the first report of chemical weapons used in the battle for Mosul.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, terrorism, iraq
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Knowing when to accept help if you have a newborn keeping you awake could save you from reaching breaking point.
Topics: babies---newborns, babies, parenting, health, breastfeeding, pregnancy-and-childbirth, family-and-children, womens-health, sleep, canberra-2600
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At the age of seven, Kakenya Ntaiya made a bargain with her father: she would undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) if he agreed to let her finish her education.
Topics: womens-health, women, health, community-and-society, education, access-to-education, kenya, australia
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| UpdatedHealth workers say improvements in treatment and early intervention now mean people with HIV have almost the same life expectancy as someone without the infection, while NSW figures show a decline in people diagnosed in 2016.
Topics: aids-and-hiv, diseases-and-disorders, health, nsw
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Chocolate can sometimes be difficult for children to resist — and thanks to new research, it may also give chronically sick kids the chance to skip the trauma of nasty-tasting medicine.
Topics: children, medical-procedures, medical-research, health, perth-6000, wa
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A dispute about funding for asbestos removal in Northern Territory remote communities is underway, prompted by the recent exposure of material in Central Australia.
Topics: asbestos, health, rural, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, federal-government, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, yuendumu-0872, nt, australia
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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