The ‘silent global pandemic’ that will undermine healthcare systems and food safety
If the danger of drug-resistant superbugs is not addressed there could be a return to the medical dark ages, where a superficial scratch could be life-threatening.
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Genomics agency faces ‘broken promise’ critique
Despite his commitment to fund Genomics Australia, Health Minister Mark Butler is being accused of walking back an election commitment.
Counting calories? Why your calculations might not add up to losing weight
Calorie counting is the tried and true method of controlling or losing weight. Here an expert reveals what to do to shed unwanted kilos.
Why actor Anna Volska wants you to know she has Parkinson’s disease
Diagnosed with an incurable disease, Anna Volska was warned to prepare for a bleak future. What happened next surprised her.
Left doublethink paints abortion as a ‘health’ issue
There is a move among the left to split the Coalition using abortion. But it could have the opposite effect, as the opposition sticks to bread-and-butter issues.
Confused about Covid jabs? Hear from a top doctor
I am one of the country’s most senior doctors and I am facing the same questions as you about when and if I should have the next Covid-19 booster vaccine.
Scolyer and me: we both beat the odds on brain tumours
Australians of the Year Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long have caused a huge ripple of hope to run through the pool of brain cancer patients and their families. The Australian’s Tansy Harcourt, who has outlived her own early prognosis, details the effect.
Should I get my genes screened?
Gene screening will transform medicine as we know it. Chris Hemsworth did it, but is it useful for you?
A mother’s fight against her genetic curse
Krystal Barter is calm as the mask that will deliver anaesthetic gas into her body is placed gently over her face. The 41-year-old has been here before.
The DNA test that could change your life
It has the potential to transform how healthcare is delivered in this country – so why is it not more readily available?
Greens vow $1bn to boost abortion access
The Greens are pledging $1bn over a decade so that all public hospitals can provide abortion services, in a policy move designed to pressure Labor to commit to universal reproductive healthcare.
Brain chip chief hails Trump’s ‘positive health device impact’
Synchron CEO Tom Oxley hopes Donald Trump will revive a proposed a new rule – which Joe Biden pulled back – to get ‘breakthrough’ medical devices to more patients.
Drug sponsors left waiting on government call
Labor has failed to plan for the consequences of delaying drug subsidies and left hundreds of patients waiting on treatments, the pharmacutical industry’s top body warns.
Time to bite the bullet on risky taste temptations
We know they’re not good for us, but what’s the latest science on those foods that can wreak havoc on our health?
Health Minister lashed over PBS subsidies ‘cap’
Katy Gallagher’s warning of a new ‘reality’ for medicine subsidies sits at odds with promises of faster bureaucracy, as the government navigates drug delays.
Shortage of lifesaving isotopes means delays for cancer patients
Britain’s hospitals have been restricting the use of medical isotopes, which are required for spotting breast and prostate cancers, due to production issues.
Lupus patients given hope of remission in groundbreaking trial
Three patients with the condition, which can cause severe joint pain and fatigue, are receiving treatment that could end the lifelong need to take drugs.
Andrew Forrest backs health start-up’s fight against ageing
Verge Genomics’ Alice Zhang left university to build an AI-powered drug discovery platform to develop the next blockbuster treatments for diseases linked to ageing, from Alzheimer’s to obesity.
Emergency drugs review to combat delays
Mark Butler has called in the government’s drug assessor for an emergency meeting after consideration of 45 drugs – some potentially lifesaving – without consultation.
No PBS service, but a $200,000 fee
Pharmaceutical companies whose medicines have been indefinitely delayed are being charged $200,000 per application despite no services being provided, as patient outrage grows.
Push to give nurses, physios bigger roles
Nurse practitioners, pharmacists and allied health professionals should be funded to carry out a greater array of healthcare under calls for major reforms to health workers’ scope of practice.
Uni takes cultural healthcare to heart
Three in 10 Indigenous Australians avoid necessary healthcare, with Indigenous health organisations under-represented, Monash is opting to change this.
‘Lives depend on it’: uproar at medicine delays
Cancer treatments and chronic-disease medications are among the drugs deferred in a shock decision by the government’s advisory body for drug subsidies, which has left 45 new medicines stalled without discussion.
‘Rare, relentless’ lymphoma now treatable from home
Mycosis fungoides affects three in every million Australians; for those few sufferers it is a near-constant agony that renders the threat of hospitalisation constant.
Politicians used pandemic fear campaign to trample over our rights
The Covid-19 Response report lacks the rigour and accountability Aussies need and deserve.
The other Covid plague that devoured our brains
The authors of the Covid-19 inquiry have done a good job, but the best disinfectant for this disease would have been a harsh dose of sunlight.
Juniors, migrants reduce GP shortage
The decline in the number of doctors training to be GPs is showing signs of reversing, amid an influx of new medical practitioners applying to work in Australia.
Genetic screening hope for ‘under-resourced’ children’s disease
At age 15, Tyler Caulfield is legally blind; he is one of thousands of children suffering from relatively unknown mitochondrial diseases.
Hospitals battle funds over costs
Private hospital groups are warning that patients will increasingly be slugged with out-of-pocket costs as contract battles with health funds continue to rage.
Cancer, heart attack risks three times higher in poor postcodes
Rates of heart attack, cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases are decreasing in the nation’s wealthiest postcodes but escalating in disadvantaged pockets, a major report that tracks rates of premature death has found.
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