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Sarah Booth is a health reporter at the Herald Sun. She previously worked in the masthead’s digital team and on the breaking news round.

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Victoria

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More than 100,000 lightning strikes hit Victoria

Parts of Victoria were subjected to wild weather with heavy rainfall and damaging winds on Wednesday.

ExclusiveVictoria

Melbourne dad Anthony Becker, pictured with his family, is the first person in the world to receive the new surgical implant for Crohn’s disease. Supplied.

Crohn’s breakthrough offers hope for a ‘drug-free’ life

A Melbourne dad has become the first in the world to get a new surgical implant that may “revolutionise” treatment for Crohn’s disease sufferers and offer hope of remission.

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Stock image of a man with penis, crotch pain, injury. Picture: iStock

Prostate cancer ‘game changer’ treatment that saves sex

Melbourne men are the first to receive a new surgical implant that could “revolutionise” prostate cancer treatment while not impacting their sexual performance.

Victoria

Yarrawonga Health. Picture: Yarrawonga Health

Drug addicted aged care nurse worked ‘off her f—ing tree’

Yarrawonga aged care residents were left in pain after a thieving local nurse swapped their strong painkillers for basic over-the-counter meds to fuel her “debilitating addiction”

Health

Group of young adult Hispanic and Caucasian pregnant women are meeting for a prenatal support group or childbirth class with midwife or doctor.

‘Overlooked’ birth issues leaving massive number of mums in pain

Shocking numbers from a Melbourne-led study show the childbirth complications women are suffering — causing pain, depression, anxiety and secondary infertility.

Victoria

Drug driver confessions that will shock Melbourne

Melbourne’s drug drivers have revealed the deadly drugs they are most likely to take before getting behind the wheel — and it’s not what you would expect.

Victoria

woman injecting herself in leg, shallow depth of field - epipen

Breakthrough drug could end daily injections for type 1 diabetes

A common drug that can stop the progression of type 1 diabetes could end the need for daily insulin injections, a groundbreaking Melbourne trial has shown.

Police & Courts

23/03/2003. Victorian of the year Dr David Marsh who is at war with the Red Cross in Bali. They will not help him put medical kits at hotels in Bali.

Richmond doctor hit with ban after sexting ‘vulnerable’ patient

A high-profile doctor celebrated for his response to the 2002 Bali bombings is banned from treating women after sexting with a patient seeking mental health treatment.

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Confusion around alleged school bullying incident leaving child in coma

‘Cell of origin’ hunt in race to stop rapidly rising liver cancer rates

Groundbreaking, world-first research to identify a mystery cell for the most common liver cancer is underway as mortality rates skyrocket.

UpdatedPolice & Courts

Members of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle club fuel up in Alice Springs before being stopped by police on the Stuart Hwy on a run to Darwin on October 12, 2022. Picture: Jason Walls

‘Shoot him in the legs’: Mongols bikie, brother accused of extortion

An alleged Mongols bikie and his brother threatened to kill a Campbellfield business owner if he did not meet two specific demands, police claim.

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