What the government’s boost to menopause support means for women
For women who experience adverse effects of menopause, help can be hard to come by. Soon, experiences such as Reena Murray’s should be the norm, not the exception.
For women who experience adverse effects of menopause, help can be hard to come by. Soon, experiences such as Reena Murray’s should be the norm, not the exception.
About 180,000 Australians live with this painful, lifelong condition involving inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. But as cases grow globally, Australia leads the pack.
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Improved access to birth control and treatments for UTIs, menopause and endometriosis will reform care for a health area ‘shrouded in shame and stigma’.
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Access to lifesaving overdose medicine has become ‘critically’ precarious, foregrounding the shortcomings of a federal program in a crisis of stigma, stimulants and supply issues.
Eye exams for under-65s are subsidised every three years under Medicare, but optometrists say that’s too long and goes against best practice.
Doctors will likely soon be obligated to provide patients with digital access to test results, provoking appeals not to crack down on noncompliance.
The mass resignation of psychiatrists from the NSW public hospital system may be only the first tremor of a seismic shift in the way our public hospitals work in the future.
Not all women will experience adverse effects of perimenopause, but for those who do, they say it can be a confusing and isolating time.
Women are concerned about a decades-long hormonal rollercoaster and doctors are accused of ‘gaslighting’ their patients.
Scientists have discovered a new type of cell in the body that has a ‘super power’ that can help in the fight against cancer.
Australia’s Health Minister has decided to seek a new national treatment guideline for the care of young people with gender distress.
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Labor’s plan to take nearly two years to review transgender medicine for children and teens has been condemned as ‘just a device to avoid dealing with the issue’ as the new federal probe effectively halts any attempts by states to ban puberty blockers.
Millions of patients could benefit as Bupa and Healthscope reach a deal at the 11th hour to get patients back into Healthscope hospitals.
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An immediate statewide freeze on hormone therapy for new patients under 18 has been ordered in Queensland, after it was discovered a 12-year-old was allegedly given puberty blockers without parental consent.
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The World Health Organisation has issued new guidelines urging people to swap regular table and cooking salt for lower sodium substitutes at home.
John Robson thinks he’d be dead if not for the cutting-edge clinical trial that started near his home in Bendigo after he was diagnosed with stage 4C melanoma four years ago.
Special measures to honour emergency workers and public servants in the pandemic have been clawed back, slowing any future acknowledgment of national contributions from the time.
Internationally registered nurses from the UK, Ireland, the US, Singapore, Spain and Canada will soon be able to practice in Australia faster than ever.
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Demonising ‘the old plastic spatula’, an American study has had to walk back its findings after falsely claiming dangerously high levels of contamination in plastic cookware.
General practitioners are the backbone of health care. But without increased rebates for longer consultations, the system will soon buckle.
In the coming election campaign, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will have to promise longer GP consults, train more doctors and prioritise women’s health to get doctors on side.
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