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Quit smoking pills do not increase risk of heart attack, stroke over patches: study

Quit smoking pills do not increase risk of heart attack, stroke over patches: study

Australian researchers say doctors should not feel they need to prescribe less effective nicotine patches to people with a history of cardiovascular disease.

  • by Mary Ward

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Bairnsdale hospital weathers fires, cyber attacks and COVID

Bairnsdale hospital weathers fires, cyber attacks and COVID

Regional hospitals have found themselves on the front line of natural disasters and workforce shortages that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers ‘well short’ of what is needed

Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers ‘well short’ of what is needed

Indigenous people make up 1 per cent of the country’s health practitioners, despite representing 3.3 per cent of the general population.

  • by Lucy Carroll and Rachel Clun
‘Absolutely extraordinary’: The Melbourne housing towers where everyone is vaccinated

‘Absolutely extraordinary’: The Melbourne housing towers where everyone is vaccinated

More than 95 per cent residents of all five towers at the Richmond housing estate, home to at least 2000 people, have now received at least one vaccination.

  • by Aisha Dow
Do we really need new pandemic laws in Victoria?

Do we really need new pandemic laws in Victoria?

The government would better serve Victorians by restructuring the Health Department and funding it properly.

  • by Lindsay Grayson
What do I tell my pandemic heroine about going to school?

What do I tell my pandemic heroine about going to school?

Children aged up to nine now make up the largest proportion of new cases in Victoria, and education clusters are by far the most common.

  • by Lisa Hounsley*
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‘No time to wait’: New anaphylaxis guidelines to empower patients

‘No time to wait’: New anaphylaxis guidelines to empower patients

Experts say a new care guide for anaphylaxis should empower parents to speak up if they believe their child’s reaction is not being properly handled.

  • by Mary Ward
‘It’s changed my life again’: New drug offers hope for some with depression

‘It’s changed my life again’: New drug offers hope for some with depression

Five different antidepressants didn’t help relieve Elissa, but she is among the first people in Australia to receive a new drug for treatment-resistant depression.

  • by Rachel Clun
Fears of psychiatrist shortage after two years of cancelled exams

Fears of psychiatrist shortage after two years of cancelled exams

Hundreds of trainee psychiatrists have been unable to complete their exams after the latest attempt at holding the test failed due to technical difficulties.

  • by Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
‘It wasn’t worth it’: Sanja’s cosmetic surgery caused years of pain

‘It wasn’t worth it’: Sanja’s cosmetic surgery caused years of pain

Sanja Kukic is among about 150 women each year who undergo breast implant removal at reconstructive surgeon Anand Deva’s Sydney practice.

  • by Lucy Carroll
Assisted dying laws will not end suffering
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Assisted dying laws will not end suffering

Assisted dying legislation takes one kind of death and aims to make it easier. But it also opens the door to new kinds of suffering and abuse, unintended but not unforeseeable.

  • by Natasha Moore