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?
Medical
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.
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.
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?
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.
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