Healthcare
Opinion
Abortion
Abortion should never again be criminalised in NSW
Decriminalising abortion was one of the most important decisions in the history of NSW, and it must be safeguarded forever.
- by Andrew Constance
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Abortion access in parts of Australia remains ‘very dire’, experts say
Accessing abortion is still a postcode lottery for women across regional Australia despite all jurisdictions decriminalising the procedure in recent years.
- by Carrie Fellner and Charlotte Grieve
Opinion
Abortion
US abortion case shows we cannot take reproductive rights for granted
The right to an abortion in Australia is legally protected – but that protection depends on a political system that shows bipartisan support for reproductive rights.
- by Rosalind Dixon
Vape websites send buyers to ‘easy’ online prescriptions, bypassing local GPs
Customers are being prescribed vapes by online-only doctors in minutes, in a practice shunned by medical bodies amid concerns two-thirds of vaping is recreational.
- by Mary Ward
Exclusive
Healthcare
Life-saving tests for newborns after Sydney study makes fatal condition treatable
The study is being touted as a major breakthrough that has taken the leading genetic cause of infant death into something that will be screened for and can be treated.
- by Mary Ward
What overturning Roe v Wade means for Australia
Children by Choice chief executive Daile Kelleher said she had no doubt Australian opponents of abortion would be energised by the US decision.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Free shots fail to boost flu vaccination rates, as COVID hospitalisations rise
Flu hospitalisations are also concerning health authorities, with figures showing most have not taken up the government’s offer of a free flu shot.
- by Mary Ward
Calls to expand access to oral COVID-19 drugs as expiry dates loom
Thousands of doses of expensive antiviral medications could be wasted if more Australians do not become eligible for the COVID-19 treatments.
- by Timna Jacks and Carla Jaeger
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Don’t pump brakes: our COVID strategy must change to reflect reality
The number of COVID infections reported this year is more than 20 times greater than for the two previous years.
- by Brendan Crabb and Mike Toole
NSW nurses and midwives to strike for third time this year
More than 70 of the roughly 180 public sector branches of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association voted to stop work for periods ranging from two hours to 24 hours on June 28.
- by Mary Ward
First Omicron wave was really twice the size of recorded cases, study says
Data found that at least 17 per cent – or almost 3.5 million – Australian adults had caught the virus by the end of February.
- by Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll