The family that convinced a Pentecostal PM to back three-parent babies
From the get-go, the patient-led lobby for a radical new in-vitro fertilisation technique had an unlikely champion: a sitting prime minister.
From the get-go, the patient-led lobby for a radical new in-vitro fertilisation technique had an unlikely champion: a sitting prime minister.
Midwives could deliver babies for private patients – funded by insurers – in a plan by health funds that could slash out-of-pocket costs to just $500.
Britain has announced the births of the first babies born after mitochondrial donation – but a key clinical trial in Australia is yet to begin.
As the private maternity system in Australia teeters on the brink of collapse, obstetricians are often targeted for ‘gouging’ patients. The real picture is very different.
Madeleine Kendrick put all of her trust in the public system for her first birth but felt the pressure for natural delivery put her baby at risk. Now she’s paying thousands for an obstetrician for her second baby, and says it’s worth every cent.
Birth outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death have been found to differ widely between public and private hospitals, fuelling urgent calls to save private maternity units.
Peter Moulding joined a clinical trial for the drug AMP945 not really knowing whether it would help him with deadly stage four pancreatic cancer. Now he is in complete remission – one of only two known cases in the world.
Pharma giants are sweating on the results of a federal government request for guidance on adding weight-loss drugs to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in a bid to tackle the obesity epidemic.
Some cancer patients respond better to immunotherapy, radiation or chemotherapy but doctors don’t know why. A new study may offer some answers.
Is our cognitive liberty at risk in Elon Musk’s new era of human enhancement? Amid warnings that brain implants could dismantle the concept of self, experts are joining forces to establish the rules for the future.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/natasha-robinson