Medicine
Chemists to lose dollar-discount option as government bows to Pharmacy Guild pressure
Chemist Warehouse will be stripped of its ability to give its customers $1 off their medicines under a change the Pharmacy Guild has been pushing for years.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Latest
The deadly price of a perfect strawberry
We’re running out of medicines that can treat deadly fungal infections. A new agricultural chemical could make things even worse.
- by Angus Dalton
Lawyers for celebrated surgeon say he can’t be held responsible for patients’ pain
Defamation trial hears that a multidisciplinary team, including a pain specialist and an anesthetist, was responsible for prescribing drugs.
- by Melissa Cunningham
Obituaries
Obituaries
‘Doctor’s cardiologist’ helped transform patient treatment
Dr David Hunt had a long and exemplary career in the public health sector as assistant director, and then director of cardiology at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
- by Tony Walker
Exclusive
Parenting
This simple baby and parenting class is making babies smarter
Rolled out by researchers in Vietnam, there are now calls for it to be trialled in Australia.
- by Aisha Dow
The artificial heart set to transform medicine – and the Aussie who invented it
Biomedical engineer Daniel Timms lost his father to heart disease, but their kitchen-top tests helped him hone a radical idea.
- by Amanda Hooton
Magazine
Good Weekend
The April 20 Edition
The Aus-designed artificial heart set to revolutionise medicine | Preppers go mainstream | A sperm donor’s message to his progeny
‘I’d really love to meet you one day’: A sperm donor’s message to his progeny
Gone are the days when the identity of donors was a tightly guarded secret – and this biological dad couldn’t be happier.
- by Gary Nunn
‘Jobs under threat’: Health savings scramble ahead of state budget
The government agency responsible for stepping in when there are medicine shortages in Victoria will announce redundancies on Thursday.
- by Broede Carmody, Henrietta Cook and Aisha Dow
Exclusive
Ed Husic
Budget’s $1.5b prescription for making medicines in Australia
The new plan clears the way for public investment in high-value therapies, naming cancer and heart disease as key areas that deserve government funds.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Health
Our track record in medical innovation can only be maintained with funding support
Australian researchers are responsible for a series of globally significant medical inventions and innovations.
- by The Herald's View