Emergency alert over IV bag shortfall
Stores of IV drip bags have been almost completely depleted in hospitals around the country this week as hospitals move to ‘disaster’ footing.
Natasha Robinson
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Experts call for regulation of plastics linked to autism
Medical experts have called for an overhaul of plastics regulation in Australia as growing evidence indicates that neuroendocrine-disrupting chemicals are linked with the development of autism.
Autism detectives link plastics chemical in mother’s womb to spectrum disorder
Boys with lower levels of a key brain enzyme who are born to mothers that have higher levels of plastic chemicals in their wombs are six times more likely to develop autism by the time they are a teenager, a world-first Australian study has found.
‘Chronic UTI must be better treated’
The nation’s medical leaders have united to call for the recognition of chronic urinary tract infection amid widespread evidence that thousands of women are being misdiagnosed and undertreated.
New frontier in fighting the cause of cancer
A groundbreaking pan-tumour pharmaceutical – that can act upon multiple different tumour types – has been publicly funded in Australia and is set to offer hope to thousands of terminally ill patients.
Health system ‘at crisis tipping point’
Australia’s health system is at a tipping point, with patients unable to afford basic care, hospitals critically overloaded, and a tide of chronic disease threatening to overwhelm all parts of the system.
Doctors’ fees to blame for maternity shutdowns: insurers
Private insurers are blaming obstetricians’ high fees for the nation’s maternity crisis amid predictions private birthing will be ‘extinct by 2030’.
Private maternity ‘extinct by 2030’ because of ward closures
Health insurance is being rendered useless for thousands of families who took out top cover, as maternity ward closures and enormous out of pockets render a private birth impossible.
Patients now pawns in private health care war
Revelations that hundreds of private hospitals are on the verge of going broke or being shut down have come as a shock to the public. But not to the healthcare industry.
Vertical healthcare ‘leaves poor out in cold’
Plans by the country’s private health insurers to become health providers as well as funders is under fresh scrutiny as the shaky viability of private hospitals sparks calls for a fundamental review of the sector.
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