Healthcare
How Georgina is driving one cancer's death rate down to zero
Professor Georgina Long has transformed cancer treatment globally. This is why her goal of zero deaths from melanoma could become reality.
- by Esther Han
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Healthcare
'Happier, heavier and ready to go': Conjoined twins Nima and Dawa closer to surgery
Since the conjoined twins arrived in Melbourne a month ago they have put on two kilograms, now weighing in at a combined 14 kilograms.
- by Aisha Dow
Healthcare
'I'm devastated': Paul Davis' disease has killed members of his family
Paul Davis, a former Balmain Tigers star, has been diagnosed with a disease that's taken the lives of many of his family members.
- by Esther Han
Medicine
Patients with rare disease get free access to life-saving wonder drug
"We don't know what will happen to you": Lea Chant was told her baby boy would die before he was 30. Her fate was a mystery.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Drugs
Grass state: Almost half a million Queenslanders used cannabis last year
Women are less likely to tell their friends about their drug use, which in turn limits their access to controlled substances.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Courts
Two-year ban for nurse who sold vaccines and pocketed the cash
Nurse to pay costs for stringing out proceedings and maintaining “her elaborate story”: QCAT.
- by Alison Brown
Healthcare
Vaccine for coeliacs one step closer as world-first trial recruits patients
The world first vaccine Nexvax2, which would allow coeliacs to abandon their gluten-free diets, was tested during the first phase of the trial in 2011 and is now set to roll into its second phase.
- by Simone Fox Koob
Healthcare
Infection every expectant mother feared 'eradicated' in Australia
Rubella has been all but wiped out across the nation following decades of dedicated vaccination of infants.
- by Aisha Dow
Healthcare
The hospital whose staff are failing to wash hands before touching newborns
The two poorest performing hospitals when it comes to maternity care have been revealed in a new report.
- by Esther Han
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Healthcare
Cries for help: NSW public health workers bullied and harassed
A toxic culture of bullying and harassment will jeopardise the welfare of healthcare workers and patients, and risks starving the public health system of medicos and leaders who will move into private practice, leading doctors warn.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Courts
Man who shot police officer, guard at Sydney hospital found not guilty
A "completely delusional" ice user who shot a police officer and security guard at a Sydney hospital's emergency department has been found not guilty by reason of mental impairment.