Healthcare
Doctors still sceptical of medicinal cannabis, study finds
A new study has found health professionals broadly support the idea of medicinal cannabis as a treatment option but are hesitant to actually use it.
- by Stuart Layt
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Courts
Appeal win after asthma attack treatment ends in brain damage
Chronic asthmatic Jennifer Leanne Masson, 25, was blue in the face and struggling for breath when a Queensland paramedic injected her with a "less effective" drug.
- by Aaron Bunch
Measles outbreak
Young woman diagnosed with measles and infectious while in Sydney CBD
The woman spent time at Capitol Square and World Square, and used public transport between Town Hall and Artarmon, while infectious between April 29 and May 6.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Opinion
Healthcare
Robert chose the pill-free route; he ended up on my operating table
Lifestyle medicine is not medicine, not even close.
- by Nikki Stamp
Opinion
Healthcare
Patient safety put at risk by negative workplace cultures
Politics is not the only profession where the absence of common courtesy is having dire consequences.
- by Johanna Westbrook
Hospitals
Expert highlights flu risk to hospital emergency departments
A leading emergency medicine expert has sounded a warning about the potential impact a flu outbreak could have on hospital emergency departments.
- by Stuart Layt
Exclusive
Obesity
Western Sydney mayors urged to take obesity epidemic personally
With obesity rates three times as high as those in Sydney's east and north, leaders in western Sydney need to take a radically different approach, a new report says.
- by Esther Han
Healthcare
College of Physicians under investigation over governance
The Australian charities and not-for-profits watchdog is investigating the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
- by Tom Rabe
Healthcare
Look-alike drugs a disaster waiting to happen, anaesthetist warns
Potent drugs with almost identical packaging but radically different effects are kept side-by-side in operating theatres, risking lives.
- by Kate Aubusson
Healthcare
How 'screen time' is turning adults into 'volatile three-year-olds'
Hours of ‘screen time’ is not transforming us into high-functioning computers, but “volatile three-year-olds”, a British neuroscientist says.
- by Kate Aubusson
Healthcare
Hip and knee replacement patients a heavy burden on hospital
Ninety per cent of people having knee or hip replacements were obese or overweight, a 10-month audit of 247 patients at an unidentified NSW public hospital found.
- by Kate Aubusson