Immunisation
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‘I can’t watch women die any more’: The remarkable tactics being used to eliminate a killer
Meet the Australian medicos taking the fight to an entirely preventable cancer killing young women, leaving children motherless and causing intergenerational damage.
- Kate Aubusson and Kate Geraghty
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Trump orders review of childhood vaccines, calls US an ‘outlier’
The US president said his country recommends “far more” shots to children than necessary, hours after an influential vaccine advisory panel voted to lift a long-standing recommendation for all newborns receive a vaccine for hepatitis B.
- Lena H. Sun and David Ovalle
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- Vaccination
As a parent, I’m watching America’s anti-vax madness with horror
Florida’s surgeon-general has compared vaccination to slavery. It’s part of a war on science which may cost many lives.
- Liz Gooch
- Opinion
- Perth
I took my son to the GP with what I thought was a cold. Now he is hospitalised every winter
As I sat in a Perth doctor’s surgery with my young son in 2022, I had no idea how serious his condition was. And it turns out, we’re not alone.
- Yvonne Ardley
Kristy thought this virus was mild. Then her baby ended up in hospital
Many babies are heading into winter without full protection against the leading cause of severe respiratory illness in infants.
- Angus Thomson
- Opinion
- Healthcare
This disease has infected America. Australia must remain immune
Distrust in public institutions like the Centres for Disease Control has taken hold in America. We can’t allow our public health system to be undermined in the same way.
- Peter Breadon
‘A catastrophe of a disease’: Doctors sound alarm on spread of measles
Victoria is in the grip of its worst measles outbreak in a decade, as health experts brace for a rise in local transmission after the school holidays.
- Henrietta Cook
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The silent infection fuelling a rise in liver cancer deaths
The federal Health Department is proposing universal testing to ensure everyone knows their hepatitis B status, amid concerns too many people are unaware they have the disease.
- Henrietta Cook
Cylas stops breathing every night. This year, more than 26,000 children caught the same disease
Australia is experiencing its worst whooping cough epidemic on record driven by a rise in cases among children as vaccination rates dip.
- Kate Aubusson
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- Vaccination
Councils say new state charges put kids’ vaccine program at risk
Councils say they were promised free use of the state’s immunisation record platform – until the Department of Health sent the bill.
- Rachel Eddie
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