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‘People are going to die’: Funding doubt over state’s frontline public health defence
The Victorian government refuses to guarantee the future of local public health units that were crucial to the state’s pandemic fight, igniting concerns about more budget cuts to an already stretched health service.
- Chip Le Grand, Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
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‘Would Joe be alive?’ Family demands answers after scathing audit
The Minns government says it is committed to ending its agreement with private operator Healthscope despite rejecting two offers to take the hospital into public hands.
- Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
What’s the problem with talc? Why beauty brands are dropping this common ingredient
As regulators worldwide raise concerns about this once-popular ingredient, talc alternatives have taken their place. But they don’t all look, feel or cost the same.
- Nell Geraets
Vital stats to lab results and medications: Read Donald Trump’s full medical report
The oldest man to be elected president of the United States has, according to his doctor’s notes, a health record to incite envy.
- Bronte Gossling
‘Overweight’ Trump has sun damage after ‘frequent golf wins’, medical report finds
The results of the newly released report of the US president’s health check also list his medications, cataract surgery and cognitive score.
- Darlene Superville
Trump undergoes physical and cognitive exams, says he has ‘a very good soul’
The soon-to-be 79-year-old, who is a fan of pizza, KFC and Big Macs, spent several hours being poked and prodded by the doctors at Walter Reed Medical Centre.
- Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal
In Sydney’s EDs, they took away the beds. But the patients kept coming
Thousands of doctors have returned to work, but their anger with the NSW government has not gone away. Here’s what happens next.
- Angus Thomson
‘Win for the northern beaches’: Community celebrates as embattled hospital operator flags exit
Taxpayers should not reward Healthscope’s mismanagement of Northern Beaches Hospital with a profit, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said.
- Angus Thomson and Max Maddison
Emergency beds closed, doctors offered $2000 a day to work as strike begins
Around 370 patients had elective surgeries cancelled as more than 3500 doctors walked off the job on Tuesday.
- Angus Thomson
The Sydney hospitals to be hit hardest by three-day doctors’ strike
Surgeries have been cancelled and non-urgent patients told to avoid the state’s emergency departments as hospitals brace for unprecedented industrial action.
- Angus Thomson
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