The city’s status as Australia’s medical research capital is under threat and most institutes risk going broke unless the gap between funding and costs are addressed, according to new modelling.
A man spent a record 105 days with a titanium heart in an Aussie breakthrough that could change the future of organ transplants.
Ultra-processed food consumption is increasing in Australia. And modelling shows women and people older than 71 years of age are on track to be most affected.
Newborn baby Tasman died one week after he was born. Now, a Coroner has found his death wasn’t properly investigated nor reported.
Family warns there’s “nothing to stop another Bacchus Marsh”, one of the deadliest patient scandals, after hospitals left officials in the dark about several child deaths.
Amir was just two days old when he died at the Royal Women’s Hospital from respiratory distress syndrome. The recommended dose of medicine might have saved him.
Heartbreaking details of preventable child deaths have prompted calls for an urgent overhaul of the state’s flawed reporting system after several fatal incidents went undisclosed to authorities.
Step inside the Melbourne lab that wants to change medicine with new technology, including a mini ‘brain’ trained to act like it’s inside a human — and grown in just three weeks.
Social media knows when you drink more alcohol than usual. So do paramedics — and they’re not as separate as you’d think.
Motorists are hitting ambulances multiple times a week, as new footage shows cars refusing to pull over and cutting off code 1 ambulances.
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