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Dementia is an umbrella term to describe a range of neurological conditions affecting the brain over time.

Alzheimer’s is not the only form of dementia. Here are four more types to watch out for

It might be the most common form of dementia, but Alzheimer’s is just one of more than 100 forms of the degenerative disease.

  • Dana G. Smith

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One policy – lifetime health cover – which was designed to bolster private insurance, now appears to be having the opposite effect.

We have a healthcare system where confusion reigns and the patient suffers

The healthcare system is badly broken, and it is consumers who end up paying, says Dr Margaret Faux in this edited extract from her book How to Avoid the Medical Bill Rip Off!

  • Margaret Faux
WHO has endorsed GLP1 therapies like Ozempic for obesity management.,

The WHO endorses Ozempic and other GLP-1s for obesity. Australia’s PBS doesn’t

The WHO’s announcement came hours after Australia released a safety alert over the potential risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours for people using the medicines.

  • Kate Aubusson
Eli Lilly GLP1 medicine Mounjaro will come with new product warning for patients.

Watchdog issues safety alert for Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs

The high-profile weight loss and diabetes drugs will come with two new warnings.

  • Kate Aubusson
US President Donald Trump, right, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, US secretary of Health and Human Services, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in September.

US medicine regulator claims COVID jabs killed at least 10 children

A critic of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr described the internal memo an example of science “by press release”.

  • Christina Jewett
The Royal Melbourne Hospital has revealed there are “significant challenges” ahead for its brand-new security control room despite an initial investment from its fundraising arm.

Hospital turns to private donations to fund security hub as assaults soar

A security control room will open next year at the Royal Melbourne Hospital after an infrastructure investment from the hospital’s charitable arm.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
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Darren Thorpe detected a cancerous growth in his prostate through a preventative MRI.

Anxiety trap or a lifesaver? The $3000 medical scans dividing doctors

A boom in private clinics offering full-body medical scans for patients with no symptoms is leading to unnecessary anxiety, misdiagnoses and invasive investigations, some doctors say.

  • Henrietta Cook
Cohealth has agreed to pause its proposed cuts until at least July.

Community health centre will keep its doors open – for now – after last-minute reprieve

Melbourne’s cohealth clinics are safe for eight months following a federal cash injection which secures access to free medical checkups for 12,000 patients.

  • Broede Carmody and Rachael Dexter
Michael Bar-Mordecai leaving the Supreme Court in 2004.

‘Fantasies of Baron Munchausen’: Struck-off doctor blocked from bunions case

Michael Bar-Mordecai has failed on 42 occasions over 25 years to have his medical licence reinstated. Now there’s a new judgment against him.

  • Kate McClymont
Radiographer Miranda Northey preares Stacey Walker for an MRI at the Forensic Institute of Forensic Medicine: Coroners Courts.

‘I could picture myself in a coffin’: How a forensic team is helping strangulation victims like Stacey

In a world first, a team at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine will soon begin using a dedicated MRI scanner to help police investigate internal neck injuries in non-fatal strangulation.

  • Melissa Cunningham

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