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‘Years my kids didn’t have’: Boost to Australian gene therapy development
When Megan Maack’s two children were diagnosed with childhood dementia, it took years for a drug that could help to be available in Australia.
- by Mary Ward
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Overhaul of melanoma detection could help high-risk patients
A program trying to harness AI to radically change how skin cancer is detected is being considered by the Albanese government.
- by Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
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Hospitals
These hospital beds could have saved Josh. They were never built
Plans to build a specialist unit on Sydney’s northern beaches have been abandoned despite the state government committing $7.5 million to the project.
- by Angus Thomson and Laura Banks
As the weather heats up, Victoria is entering a chest-pain danger zone
A large new study has found higher temperatures are linked with spikes in ambulance callouts.
- by Bianca Hall
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Healthcare
His dad was dying. So Daniel built a world-first artificial heart – with pipes and magnets
Australia will spend $50 million building the world’s first long-term artificial heart, after the original prototype was built with pieces bought from Bunnings.
- by Sherryn Groch
Fine at breakfast, in ICU at lunch: Free vaccines urged to tackle deadly disease
More than 1000 Australians have caught meningococcal B in the past decade. Health experts and survivors are urging that an optional and expensive vaccine be made freely available.
- by Henrietta Cook
Midwives raise grave concerns about staffing levels at Cabrini Malvern
A staffing shortage is putting mothers and babies at risk, midwives say – an accusation the hospital rejects.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Brain injuries and smashed teeth: Hospitals grapple with doubling in e-scooter injuries
New data shows that almost three injured e-scooter riders are taken to the emergency department every day.
- by Henrietta Cook
The costly IVF technique being unnecessarily sold to thousands
A procedure designed for severe male infertility is increasingly being sold to couples where the man has no or only moderate fertility issues.
- by Aisha Dow and Henrietta Cook
A surfboard destroyed Graham’s face. Finding a surgeon wasn’t so easy
Graham Kittle’s doctor was trained to perform facial plastic surgery, but can’t call herself a plastic surgeon. A court has heard the strict rules are confusing patients.
- by Angus Thomson
An Australian doctor has just made global history. This is what happened
A single pill administered in a borrowed medical clinic has become the talk of mental health doctors around the world.
- by Jordan Baker