Medicine
The hospital where you can have an emergency only during business hours
Patients used to turn up in the back of a ute, needing urgent help for a snakebite or farm injury. Now they can only do so between 8am and 5.30pm.
- by Catherine Naylor
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Vaccination
‘We don’t have a Team Australia approach’: Vaccine facility rejects plea for help
A request by NSW to access a taxpayer-funded Moderna mRNA facility was knocked back, raising more questions about how much value Australia is getting from the facility.
- by Liam Mannix and Paul Sakkal
From wandering wombs to the missing clitoris: How medical misogyny works
From Ancient Greece right through to modern medicine in Australia today, the treatment of women in science started badly and remains a serious problem.
- by Kate Aubusson and Emily Kaine
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Pharmacy Guild
This powerful lobby group claimed 665 pharmacies would close. Here’s what really happened
The Pharmacy Guild claimed 60-day scripts would force pharmacies to shut and cause 20,000 job losses. The figures tell a very different story.
- by James Massola
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Road safety
Roads are getting safer – but not for pedestrians
More – and bigger -- cars on the roads means pedestrians are at greater risk of serious injury.
- by Melissa Cunningham and Marta Pascual Juanola
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Medical Misogyny
Medical misogyny
This is an investigative series into medical misogyny. We will explore how medical misogyny is happening in Australia, and share the best ideas to address it.
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Hospitals
‘Opera House on your doorstep’: Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes
NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
A new wave of ‘age-reversing’ pills is upon us. Should we bite?
As new drugs and supplements promise to help extend our lives, it’s hard not to be intrigued.
- by Angus Dalton
Pharmaceutical giant sued over ‘ineffective’ cold and flu drugs
Sick customers who bought some cold and flu medications have been falsely assured their nasal congestion would be relieved, an Australian class action alleges.
- by Neve Brissenden
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Hospitals
Royal Melbourne Hospital looks at whistleblower overhaul after fraud probe revealed
The move follows revelations in this masthead that Victoria’s corruption watchdog is investigating a handful of surgeons for alleged fraudulent billing.
- by Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
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Hospitals
IBAC investigating claims surgeons billed TAC for nonexistent procedures
The state’s corruption commission is investigating explosive allegations that surgeons at a major Melbourne hospital fraudulently claimed fees for procedures that were never carried out.
- by Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
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