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The Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.

Junior doctor accused of toilet spying suspended as hobby revealed

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency confirmed Ryan Cho’s registration had been suspended more than a fortnight after charges were laid.

  • Broede Carmody

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Greg Bird.

Greg was placed in an induced coma. The news he got on waking was a shock

The cost of diabetes to Australia’s healthcare system was $14.2 billion in 2024. Greg’s story shines a light on why.

  • Bianca Carbone
A Royal Melbourne spokesperson said the hospital would assist police with their investigation.

Hospital toilet spying investigation expanded to further sites

Police are expanding their investigation to include the Royal Melbourne. Authorities are also contacting regional hospitals.

  • Broede Carmody and Grant McArthur

Junior doctor accused of toilet spying worked at second major hospital

Ryan Cho was arrested last week after colleagues at the Austin discovered a mobile phone allegedly recording them in a restricted staff toilet.

  • Broede Carmody
Alijana was just 13 weeks old when she was diagnosed.

Johanna read an article about meningococcal. It likely saved her daughter’s life

When Johanna Papas first tried to get her daughter help, she was turned away. Now she is telling her story in the hope it will help others take things forward.

  • Holly Thompson
‘I didn’t catch that’: The trouble with hearing

Noisy restaurants, muffled voices: How hearing loss creeps up on us

Blasting headphones, loud gigs – it can take years for the damage to show. Then there’s everyday wear and tear to our ears. Here’s how it can be helped.

  • Jackson Graham
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Grace Passfield with her husband, Ben and sons Lucas, now 5, and Will, now 7.

The sunburn generation: Why young people are risking cancer for tans

While Generation Z was coveting tan lines, Grace was a young mum with stage 4 cancer.

  • Kate Aubusson
The Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.

Junior doctor arrested, phone seized over alleged toilet spying

The man, from Melbourne’s north-eastern suburbs, has been released on bail after he was charged with stalking and other offences.

  • Caroline Schelle and Broede Carmody
Pharmaceuticals are the third-biggest category in Australia’s export trade with the US, after beef and gold.

Trump is toying with us, but his 200% tariff threat could still harm sick Australians

A restriction on the supply of generic medicines to Australia is among genuine risks, regardless of the eventual tariff on pharmaceuticals.

  • Deborah Gleeson
Patient Michael Smith from Leeton NSW is the first successful recipient of a device which uses a new approach to help pump blood while he wait for a heart transplant. Photograph at St Vincent’s Public Hospital with surgeon Dr Paul Jansz and Prof Chris Hayward , senior cardiologist

Michael thought he was just getting old. A world-first device changed his life

An Australian hospital has become the first in the world to implant a revolutionary device considered a “quantum leap” in preventing deaths from heart failure.

  • Angus Thomson

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