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Simranjit Kaur says she lay in a bed at Box Hill hospital for a week while waiting for an MRI.

‘Working in the dark’: Patients wait almost a year for medical scans

Hospitals are grappling with a backlog of non-urgent medical scans, delaying diagnosis and treatment for thousands of patients.

  • Henrietta Cook

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Ben Niznik now feels at peace with his tinnitus.

Ben spent thousands trying to fix ringing in his ears. Now he’s at peace with the noise

Many young Australians are “suffering in silence” with tinnitus – a phantom ringing or buzzing in the ears that has no cure.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Screengrabs from videos posted by Tim Friede, who filmed himself goading black mambas and taipans to bite him. Scientists are now trying to make a broad-spectrum antivenom from his blood.

Bitten 200 times by venomous snakes, this mechanic didn’t die. Here’s why

Tim Friede has survived the deadly venom of taipans, black mambas, vipers and cobras. Scientists have used his blood to craft a potential broad-spectrum antivenom.

  • Angus Dalton
Author Megan Clement.

I’m locked out of voting this election. I feel less Australian than ever

I haven’t lived in Australia for 12 years, but I keep finding myself back here at election time. It’s ironic, really, because I no longer have a say in who leads my homeland.

  • Megan Clement
Advanced intravital imaging shows memory B cells (red) interacting with macrophages (white) inside a lymph node (blue).

Left arm or right? Why it matters where you get your vaccine

These scientists sought to answer a simple question. They ended up stumbling upon a discovery that could pave the way for a new generation of vaccines.

  • Angus Thomson

‘Why wait?’ Emma and Martin bonded over their early-onset Parkinson’s

The couple met doing advocacy work and have been dating for almost a year. Now they appreciate the good times together, and help each other through the bad.

  • Katie Cunningham
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Ella Rich.

Ella was locked in a psych ward at 19 weeks pregnant, but doctors had misdiagnosed her

The pregnant mother of two just wanted some relief for severe nausea. She was in disbelief when she was later admitted to a mental health unit.

  • Kate Aubusson
Glenn Phillips said his parents were in and out of hospital across three-week period as they battled severe flu symptoms in 2023.

Flu season? Experts say we’re already in it

Glenn Phillips never expected to infect his family with the flu when they met for a belated Christmas gathering. “I don’t think my father ever fully recovered from it.”

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
COVID-19 came first. Now scientists are preparing for ‘Disease X’.

Why an Aussie lab is racing to make a vaccine for haemorrhagic fever

After the chaos of COVID-19, the world is bracing for the onset of the next “Disease X”.

  • Angus Dalton
Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place chief executive Fiona O’Leary, left, and program manager Kerry Williams, right.

‘Clear risks to staff and clients’: The community health buildings that are falling apart

For many of these places, foundations are failing, there are cracks in the walls or portions of the roofs could cave in at any moment.

  • Broede Carmody

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