Health
From Lucas Heights to PeterMac, new prostate therapy is a game-changer
Experimental treatment, ignored by big pharma companies, and being trialled at Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has had some 'very exciting' results.
- by Liam Mannix
Latest
Healthcare
Karabar parents sent warning after student treated for meningococcal
Karabar High School students have been warned to watch for symptoms of meningococcal.
- by Daniella White
Exclusive
Drugs
Surgery patients are hoarding excess strong painkillers: study
Australians patients often leave hospital with a swag of strong painkillers, but rather than throwing out leftovers, they’re stashing them for future use.
- by Aisha Dow
Opinion
Healthscope
The battle for Healthscope suddenly got more complicated
BGH looked like it had its target locked. It’s not proving to be quite that straightforward.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Healthcare
Anger as foundation sells John James Hospital properties
One of the founders of John James Hospital is angry the hospital's foundation has sold the property.
- by Daniella White
Malcolm Turnbull
'Appalling': Government won't budge on polluted land buyout
Government won't buy out owners of the polluted land around military bases in spite of "fairly consistent evidence" linking them to a slew of health effects.
- by Carrie Fellner
ACT
ACT Health crisis deepens as opposition move no-confidence motion
The health minister has dismissed the motion of no confidence as a "cheap stunt"
- by Daniella White
Health
Bats' ability to carry diseases yet not get sick might stop next human outbreak
Bats spread more than 60 diseases known to infect humans including Hendra, Ebola, SARS and rabies. New ones are being discovered all the time.
- by Liam Mannix
USA
'I'm a superhero!' Michael, 4, donates bone marrow to baby brothers
He knew a long needle would be pushed into the bone near his hip to extract the marrow, then the cells would be transplanted into his brothers. He did it anyway.
- by Lindsey Bever
Hospitals
The childhood obesity epidemic means more teens going under the knife
An increasing number of overweight and obese Australian children are having their gall bladders removed.
- by Daniella White
Healthcare
Sooner than you realise: Smoking killing people as young as 30
Smoking killed 179 people in their 30s and 40s in 2011 according to a new report from the Victorian health department.
- by Matilda Boseley