Hospitals must report food reactions following boy's death

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A devastating food labelling error that led to the death of a 10-year-old Melbourne boy has prompted the Victorian government to make it mandatory for hospitals to report cases of anaphylaxis.

Conversion disorder: The mysterious condition dogged by doubt and stigma

It's been described as the one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time. All of a sudden, a patient is struck down by blindness. Others are paralysed. Some endure violent fits.

Child cancer patients' future fertility hopes on ice

Bioethicist finds removing reproductive tissue 'ethically permissible, but not ethically required'.

Meet the medical miracles that live at St Vincent’s

A little fish tank sits unwatched in a bustling tearoom at St Vincent's Hospital.

Euthanasia advocates slam 'drug cocktail' proposal

A proposal to create a new euthanasia pill using a cocktail of legal medication has been slammed by assisted dying advocates on the eve of one of state parliament's most contentious debates.

Elderly people dying in emergency departments

Elderly people are being taken to emergency departments in their final hours of life and dying "under fluorescent lighting in a hospital cubical" because many aged-care homes are not equipped to provide palliative care.

The day Campbel Giles was diagnosed, she didn't think. She just said yes

Five-year-old Elsie Ryan has not yet asked why her mum died or what happened to her afterwards. But when she does, her dad will tell her that her mother Campbel Giles was part of something special.

Worse than smoking: 'Urgent' push for health tax

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Leading health organisations say obesity poses a greater risk to Australia than smoking.

I didn't get the flu shot. Does that make me an anti-vaxxer?

• COMMENT

Is it time for us to change our cavalier attitude to the flu shot?