Health
Is that coffee good for you? It depends on how you make it
New research shows up to three cups of coffee a day can lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, but it depends on the method used to make it.
- Miranda Levy
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Why iron deficiency is ‘notoriously underdiagnosed’ in women
Fatigue, low mood and even muscle weakness are widely considered to be a part of being a woman. But low iron levels can cause all these symptoms and more – and it is easily treated.
- Paula Goodyer
- Explainer
- Healthcare
In a medical crisis, who will speak for you? Here’s how people plan ahead
It can happen in instant. When you can’t make decisions about your own medical treatment, who steps into your shoes? And how do doctors know what you want (and don’t want)?
- Nick Newling and Felicity Lewis
- Exclusive
- Coronavirus pandemic
‘People are going to die’: Funding doubt over state’s frontline public health defence
The Victorian government refuses to guarantee the future of local public health units that were crucial to the state’s pandemic fight, igniting concerns about more budget cuts to an already stretched health service.
- Chip Le Grand, Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
‘Would Joe be alive?’ Family demands answers after scathing audit
The Minns government says it is committed to ending its agreement with private operator Healthscope despite rejecting two offers to take the hospital into public hands.
- Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
What’s the problem with talc? Why beauty brands are dropping this common ingredient
As regulators worldwide raise concerns about this once-popular ingredient, talc alternatives have taken their place. But they don’t all look, feel or cost the same.
- Nell Geraets
Vital stats to lab results and medications: Read Donald Trump’s full medical report
The oldest man to be elected president of the United States has, according to his doctor’s notes, a health record to incite envy.
- Bronte Gossling
‘Overweight’ Trump has sun damage after ‘frequent golf wins’, medical report finds
The results of the newly released report of the US president’s health check also list his medications, cataract surgery and cognitive score.
- Darlene Superville
Trump undergoes physical and cognitive exams, says he has ‘a very good soul’
The soon-to-be 79-year-old, who is a fan of pizza, KFC and Big Macs, spent several hours being poked and prodded by the doctors at Walter Reed Medical Centre.
- Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal
In Sydney’s EDs, they took away the beds. But the patients kept coming
Thousands of doctors have returned to work, but their anger with the NSW government has not gone away. Here’s what happens next.
- Angus Thomson
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