Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians

New research has found that Indigenous people with high rates of childhood trauma, including those who were forcibly removed from their families, are nearly three times more likely to develop dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease, than others.

Book Week furore over Boy in Striped Pyjamas costume suggestion

A suggestion that children dress up as the character from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has been slammed online.

Shot in the hip, doctor sewed herself up then helped save others

When doctor Jemilah Mahmood was shot in the hip in Iraq, she sewed up the wound herself and then delivered a baby by c-section, but she mantains she's no hero.

GP reprimanded for prescribing opioids to drug dependent doctor shoppers

The doctor was allowed to keep practising under supervision because of his previous "unblemished record".

Got back pain? You should rethink reaching for the opioid-based painkillers

Got back pain? Think once, twice and then again before taking any opioid-based painkillers, warn international experts after the release of groundbreaking new research.

Dependent on opioids, Christine Drinnan went doctor shopping for months before she died

Despite Christine Drinnan's growing opioid tolerance, doctors kept prescribing more, and in stronger doses.

The next drug epidemic coming to Australia

Prescription opioid painkillers were so common on the streets of Sydney's Darlinghurst and Kings Cross that recovering addict John*, 49, found them easier to buy than heroin, his "stone" of choice.  

Don't be a drongo: stop climbing Uluru

• COMMENT

Uluru is a sacred place. So why are so many so crudely disrespectful?

'Go fast, go fast': The one mistake that cost a life

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"They were just 17-year-olds mucking about in the car. There was nothing sinister about them."