A decade on from Labor’s bold vision to fix the healthcare system, hospitals are grappling with huge deficits while wait times have increased for surgery and in emergency departments.
In a world-first finding, Melbourne researchers have discovered how a deadly ovarian cancer – notorious for developing treatment resistance – was able to do so.
Victorians in cardiac arrest who had zero chance of survival are being saved from “certain death” with a novel, hi-tech approach.
Once again, a damning report has shown Ambulance Victoria is still missing the mark in responding to critically ill Victorians on time.
Victorians have been left in the dark on IVF clinic failings after the regulator quietly stopped reporting key details about lost and damaged embryos, egg and sperm.
An aged care nurse linked to an Epping baby shower that took place during Melbourne’s lockdowns has been briefly suspended, telling a Tribunal the “mistake will haunt me for the rest of my life”.
Leading feminist Fay Marles, Melbourne’s University’s first female chancellor and mother of the deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, has been remembered as a “fierce advocate” for women after her death aged 98.
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A large-scale report into Australia’s response to Covid-19 found trust had been “eroded” due to “heavy-handed” measures taken in the pandemic.
A Melbourne mum has revealed how she was saved from a rare, life-threatening tumour by a twist of fate, saying if she hadn’t been pregnant, she “may not have woken up the next morning”.
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