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Natasha Robinson is The Australian’s health editor and writes across medicine, science, health policy, research, and lifestyle. Natasha has been a journalist for more than 20 years in newspapers and broadcasting, has been recognised as the National Press Club’s health journalist of the year and is a Walkley awards finalist and a Kennedy Awards winner. She is a former Northern Territory correspondent for The Australian with a special interest in Indigenous health. Natasha is also a graduate of the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board’s Diploma of Law and has been accepted as a doctoral candidate at QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research, researching involuntary mental health treatment and patient autonomy.

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(FILES) This photo illustration shows boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic resting on a pharmacy counter in Los Angeles, California, on April 17, 2023. Over 40 percent of Americans suffer from obesity, reflecting a major health crisis and the massive market for new Ozempic-type drugs. With their

Crackdown on replica weight-loss drugs market

Replica versions of Ozempic will be banned from being made in specialised pharmacies, as Labor moves to crack down on an unregulated drug market.

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Psychologists on call for all except the severely unwell

The crisis swamping public psychiatry services dealing with schizophrenic patients remains unremedied as early intervention services get millions.

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8/5/24: Dr Jacqueline Huber, Emergency Psychiatry Staff Specialist at St VIncent's Hospital. John Feder/The Australian.

As a system buckles, where to go?

What it’s like inside the emergency psychiatric ward at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, as troubled patients seek a refuge they desperately need.

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3/4/24: Tim Doyle, the founder of Eucalyptus, a commercial telehealth start-up that is under fire from regulators and health leaders. John Feder/The Australian.

‘Cowboy behaviour a threat to patients’

Popular telehealth providers are being labelled ‘nothing but online pharmacies’ intent on circumventing Australia’s strict advertising and drug regulations in the relentless pursuit of profit.

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Copycat Ozempic being pushed on the vulnerable

Inside Australian laboratories, chemists are creating pharmaceutical replicas of one of the world’s biggest blockbuster weight loss drugs. The phones are ringing off the hook.

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Jobs go begging as psychiatrists flee the system

As many as one in four public sector psychiatry positions are vacant in some states as despairing doctors are forced to discharge patients from psychiatric wards weeks before they are recovered.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos AUGUST, 04, 2020: Sydney Local Health District Chief Executive Dr Teresa Anderson speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Health powerbroker moved as scandal swamps top hospital

One of NSW’s most powerful public hospital bosses, Teresa Anderson, has been moved aside amid controversies that have shaken the foundations of one of Sydney’s most prestigious hospitals.

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Health minister refuses action on missing transgender hormone records

Regional gender clinic Maple Leaf House received 443 new referrals in 2023, and saw 983 patients, but has no record of hormone treatment.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, DECEMBER 5, 2022. The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne is under extreme pressure Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

Australia’s transgender health approach ‘lacks rigour’

Australia’s guidelines on gender-affirmative medicine fail to recommend formal screening for body image problems or autism spectrum disorder, international researchers say.

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Gender clinics in Australia treating transgender children are distancing themselves from the Cass report.

Gender clinic’s lack of records ‘a scandal’

A public gender clinic claims it has no data on how many children it is putting on hormone therapy or what their sexes were at birth, despite taking in the vast bulk of NSW teenagers who want to change gender.

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