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Beth Ivimey, a decorated oncology nurse, was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the bile ducts in 2022.

Beth’s time ‘could have been extremely short’. A new approach to cancer treatment is giving her hope

Cancer patients found to have specific gene mutations or other biomarkers are being matched to precision treatments not routinely available in Australia.

  • Kate Aubusson

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Richard Scolyer after completing Parkrun number 250.

Defying expectations, inspiring Richard Scolyer reaches another goal

Fourteen weeks after learning his incurable brain tumour had returned, the former Australian of the Year finished his 250th Parkrun.

  • Garry Maddox
Monash IVF is Australia’s second biggest fertility clinics group with an estimated 25.3 per cent market share.

The collateral damage from Monash IVF’s colossal embryo bungles

Monash IVF hasn’t just undermined its own reputation and customer confidence; it must result in a confidence wobble for the entire industry.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Professor David Brown at the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research at Westmead hospital said the current lab is no longer fit-for-purpose.

The $492m lab designed for dangerous pathogens and rapid testing

The outdated laboratory at Westmead Hospital conducts 3.5 million pathology-related tests a year and is about to get a major upgrade.

  • Kate Aubusson
Premier Jacinta Allan had heavy and drawn-out periods as a young person, later diagnosed as endometriosis.

‘Wild with rage’: It took Jacinta Allan more than a decade to learn the source of her pain

Women who have sought help over years for a condition more common than diabetes say they have felt gaslit and disbelieved, and live in excruciating pain. Jacinta Allan is among the 1 million Australians hoping for better.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Northern Beaches Hospital

Banks step in to keep Healthscope running as receivers appointed

The Minns government is under increasing pressure to buy back the Northern Beaches Hospital after its major private hospital operator went into receivership.

  • Kate Aubusson and Colin Kruger
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A new scan could detect Alzheimer’s earlier.

Brain scan to detect Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear in world first

A world-first brain scanning technique could identify signs of Alzheimer’s disease long before symptoms appear.

  • Laura Donnelly

‘It triggers an explosion’: What causes allergies and can they be prevented?

Five million Australians have allergies. How can parents know if their child has one? And how is an intolerance different?

  • Jackson Graham
Oscar Larrainzar, recipient of the first-ever human bladder transplant, waits to be discharged.

Oscar was a ticking time bomb. Now he has hope

Surgeons have performed the first human bladder transplant, introducing a new, potentially life-changing procedure for people with debilitating conditions.

  • Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
A man has his skin scanned for melanomas in a Vectra machine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Queensland.

$10m was spent on these melanoma scanners. Doctors were better at detecting cancer

Is this new scanner a medical miracle, or a cautionary tale about the perils of shiny new tech?

  • Liam Mannix

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