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With Jyoti, who spoke no English but who slept by the author’s bed on her final night at the hospital.

When I said I wanted to experience the ‘real’ India, I didn’t mean the emergency room

A literature festival was to be the highlight of a trip to the subcontinent. Then came a sudden medical detour.

  • Gay Alcorn

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There is no scientific evidence to back claims that women need more sleep than men.

Do women really need more sleep than men?

Social media influencers claim women need a lot more sleep than men, but there’s more going on than simply counting the hours.

  • Melinda Wenner Moyer
Pope Francis at the Vatican in August.

Pope Francis suffers new breathing crises, is placed back on ventilation, Vatican says

The pontiff was alert, oriented and co-operated with medical personnel, according to the Vatican, but his prognosis remained guarded.

  • Nicole Winfield
My symptoms disappear when I see the doctor.

I suffer from ‘white coat’ syndrome, but not like other people

My response to medical appointments is like a demented Murphy’s law: what can go wrong, will go wrong, even if it means it suddenly and inexplicably goes right.

  • Kerri Sackville
Health workers dressed in protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ebola has been ruled out this time.

What we know about the deadly mystery illnesses affecting hundreds in Congo

The first cases occurred after children ate bats. Now hundreds of people in two villages are sick and more than 50 are dead.

  • Chinedu Asadu and Jean-Yves Kamale
Steve Cook is a former animal-welfare officer dealing with burnout from a non-stop, stressful job... but now he says he’s found peace in leaving work behind, being relaxed, finding other things to do with his life.

Feeling exhausted, cynical, inefficient? It could be ‘burnout’ ... if it actually exists

Burnout has emerged as the modern condition, but scientists are deeply divided. Where some see a crisis, others see “a fashionable diagnosis” or “psychobabble”.

  • Liam Mannix
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Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Judith Suminwa talks to journalists during a press conference in Geneva.

Mystery illness kills more than 50 within hours in Congo

The outbreak began after three children ate a bat and died after suffering haemorrhagic fever symptoms. The WHO has ruled out Ebola.

  • Jean-Yves Kamale and Olivia Le Poidevin
Drew Dowsley was struck by a train in September, just hours after he was turned away from Gosford Hospital in a state of psychosis. He miraculously survived, and now his family is launching campaign with his mother Helen Dowsley to ensure the tragedy does not happen to anyone else. Helen and Drew looking at old photos of Drew as a child, at their home in Mittagong, Tuesday 4th of February 2025. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos / The Sydney Morning Herald

Drew was in crisis when he was hit by a train. His family want answers

Five months after Drew Dowsley’s miracle survival, his mother Helen still doesn’t understand why he was allowed to leave a NSW hospital in his darkest hour.

  • Angus Thomson
Jaun-Paul Kalman was rushed to hospital on February 5 after a blue-ring octopus bit him on the thumb at Balmoral.

1000 times worse than cyanide: Blue-ringed octopus bite can turn deadly, quickly

A man bitten in Mosman said he felt himself stop breathing. He was hit with so much venom he suffered another three bouts of paralysis in the week that followed.

  • Angus Dalton
Mosquito treatment of wetlands along the Swan River.

Swan River cities plead for help as they lose fight with mosquitos

The cities of Bayswater, Swan, Bassendean and Belmont released a statement Tuesday urging the Department of Health – which coordinates the state’s response to mosquitos – to step up in their fight against mosquitos.

  • Hamish Hastie

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