Healthcare
‘People don’t want to talk’: The taboo ‘zombie’ problem in medical science
Bad science is affecting clinical guidelines, but now an Australian professor has a solution.
- by Angus Dalton
Latest
Doctors look interstate for work as Victorian budget squeeze hits hard
Hiring freezes and job losses at Victorian hospitals are prompting many healthcare workers to look interstate for work.
- by Henrietta Cook
Exclusive
Hospitals
Why these parents didn’t sue the hospital that killed their baby
What does justice look like when your child dies due to catastrophic medical errors?
- by Kate Aubusson
Ozempic is much more than a weight-loss drug, studies show
New diabetes drugs are very likely to improve heart and kidney health for sufferers, research reveals. But Australia’s supply shortage will not be resolved this year.
- by Mary Ward
Perspective
Healthcare
A day – and an unexpected night – in the emergency ward
After spending a day as an observer in the state’s busiest emergency department, there is an unforeseen personal visit to another emergency ward.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Hospitals in crisis
Funding alone is not the magic bullet in fixing Victoria’s hospital crisis
No amount of funding will improve service delivery if we cannot find nurses to fill positions under current conditions and improve healthcare culture.
- by John Wilson
The longest surgery wait list, budget cuts and a disputed $500m hospital fix
Anger is boiling over in Albury-Wodonga, where the waiting list for planned surgery is already the worst in regional Victoria.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Doctors fear elective surgery lists will blow out again
Victoria blitzed elective surgery waiting lists down after the pandemic, but looming health cuts threaten to blow them out again and force more people to take out private health insurance.
- by Jewel Topsfield
‘Scorched earth’: What the state’s health funding squeeze means for rural health
Health outcomes for people in regional areas are already poorer than the city. Here’s why they may get much worse.
- by Benjamin Preiss
The common but little-known virus causing disability in hundreds of babies
Every year, about 400 babies are born with physical and intellectual disabilities caused by a virus many pregnant women don’t know about.
- by Henrietta Cook
Narelle watched her husband die a painful death, so she chose hers
Since NSW became the last state in Australia to offer voluntary assisted dying in November, hundreds of people have applied. These are some of their stories.
- by Angus Thomson