Healthcare
Logan Hospital leads surge in critical patient admissions
The number of critical patients presenting to hospitals across the Metro South Health District has jumped by over 35 per cent.
- by Stuart Layt
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Sydney hospital faces trainee ban over junior doctor scandal
Bankstown Hospital faces losing accreditation to train future surgeons as after a junior doctor was worked to breaking point.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Exhausted surgeon dismissed as an 'emotional female'
A young surgical trainee dismissed as “an emotional female” was made to work up to 70 hours a week and on-call for seven days straight at a Sydney hospital.
- by Kate Aubusson
Medicine
Experts setting drug standards have links to drug companies: report
A review of Australian medical guidelines has found that one in five of the experts who contributed to them have undisclosed links to drug companies.
- by Stuart Layt
Healthcare
$54.5 million funding boost for search for cure for Type 1 diabetes
The funding is part of the government’s $120 billion Medical Research Future Fund.
- by Kate Aubusson
Healthcare
Women at higher risk of breast cancer after childbirth
Women may be at increased risk of breast cancer for more than two decades after giving birth, new research suggests.
- by Kate Aubusson
Healthcare
Thoughts of death: doctors can't predict who will suicide by asking
Most people who died of suicide deny they experience suicidal thoughts to their doctors, a major study shows.
- by Kate Aubusson
Flashback
From the Archives, 1984: Medicare is introduced in Australia
35 years ago the Hawke Government introduced Medicare. We remember the achievement, as well as the conflict and the confusion, with this article from the archives.
- by Staff Writers
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Undiagnosed and unmedicated: Children being left untreated for ADHD
After the release of a study that shows kids in Melbourne are being under-diagnosed with ADHD and under-treated, one mother wants parents to know medication and the care a diagnosis brought changed her family's life.
- by Anthony Colangelo
Healthcare
Latest measles case in NSW prompts warning from NSW Health
The woman is the 12th person in NSW to be diagnosed with the measles since Christmas.
- by Dominica Sanda
Cancer
'Double whammy': Old and new combine to give hope to young cancer patients
Kim and Simon Kane used to look at other families in the park, playing happily, and share a tinge of envy. Why was their son lying in hospital?
- by Liam Mannix