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Linda Romeo’s mother died in March after spending six hours on a trolley in a corridor at Mildura Hospital.
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Trapped and dying: Victoria’s worst hospital for emergency department waits

Frustrated patients are discharging themselves after two-day waits at Mildura Base Hospital as hundreds languish in the overwhelmed ED.

  • by Henrietta Cook
Associate Professor Andrea Phillipou, principal research fellow at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne.
Eating disorders

Anorexia is the deadliest mental health condition. Experts say we are treating it completely wrong

The biased idea that anorexia nervosa affects only young, affluent women, and an emphasis on weight restoration, are contributing to such a lack of research; there have been no treatment breakthroughs for 50 years.

  • by Wendy Tuohy
Baby Angus, his surrogate mother Jennifer McCloy and his biological mother, Edwina Peach
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Jen had a baby for her best friend. It was harder than it needed to be

  • by Jordan Baker
Kristy Gatt with son Blake, who was hospitalised with RSV after missing the window for free immunisation.
Immunisation

Kristy thought this virus was mild. Then her baby ended up in hospital

  • by Angus Thomson
Hidden black mould revealed after renters pulled a couch from the wall, submitted to the Facebook page Don’t Rent Me.
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How bad science warped our ideas about black mould

  • by Angus Dalton
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