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Along with flu, RSV is the most common reason children end up in hospital with a respiratory illness. See why a major outbreak of the virus is putting pressure on Australia’s hospitals.
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Australia‘s mega virus outbreak
With winter underway, Australia is facing a “perfect storm” of simultaneous killer virus outbreaks in the nation’s hospitals and schools.
Respiratory illnesses run rampant – doctors want wider testing
As winter begins the health system is under assault from and unprecedented simultaneous outbreak of four respiratory viruses, find out how to check which one you have.
Breakthrough new superfast Aussie IVF treatment
Weeks of hated hormone injections are no longer necessary for some infertile women thanks to an Aussie breakthrough in IVF treatment.
Schizophrenia 3D video game-like treatment
Virtual reality is being used to bring the voices in schizophrenia patients’ heads to life. See how it works.
Doctors and chemists at ‘war’ over prescribing rights
Allowing pharmacists to prescribe low-risk medicines is convenient for patients but doctors argue it’s “outright dangerous”.
How your health fund profited from Covid
They gained hundreds of thousands more members and paid out nearly $1 billion less in benefits to them, health funds were one of the few parts of the health system to profit from the pandemic.
Free flu jab call as surgery delayed indefinitely
Experts are calling for flu jabs to be made free as hospitals are under siege, and families are forced to pay up to $100 to get vaccinated.
Local bush doctors ‘all gone in four years’
EXCLUSIVE: Rural hospitals will be left to fallow as local doctor numbers continuing to plummet with one agency predicting there will be no local GPs staffing hospitals in the bush within four years.
‘Decades of neglect of rural and remote people’
NSW has lost three-quarters of the rural GP workforce in the past 10 years leaving only 200 doctors to serve more than 600,000 residents with the region predicted to have no locally-based doctors at all four years from now.
Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/sue-dunlevy/page/33