Exercise can help patients avoid deadly heart damage from life-saving cancer treatments
Health experts want blood- and breast-cancer patients prescribed exercise to mitigate heart damage during treatment.
- by Henrietta Cook
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What’s in a name? The push to rebrand the most common type of cancer
A team of experts are weighing up whether low-risk prostate cancer cases should be renamed to reduce anxiety and unnecessary treatment.
- by Henrietta Cook
‘Far too loose’: Calls for crackdown on early access to super scheme after claims of abuse
The early release of super allows chronically ill patients to withdraw their retirement savings to pay for certain medical procedures, but there are growing concerns it’s open to abuse.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey and Henrietta Cook
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Healthcare
Health watchdog probes alleged rort of super scheme for dental veneers
Chris Sfetkas wanted to fix his smile. But he was able to access $41,000 of his super after medical practitioners told the tax office he was in “chronic pain”.
- by Henrietta Cook and Sumeyya Ilanbey
The postcode lottery for abortion access in Victoria
A new report shows more than two-thirds of the state’s local government areas have no surgical abortion providers and almost 40 per cent have no listed pharmacies that dispense abortion medication.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Cancer
Kevin Bartlett’s wife Denise had a single wish after brain cancer treatment: to come home
The Bartletts are among a growing number of Australians who have accessed hospital in-home services, a potential solution to hospital bed shortages that offer patients a chance to heal in the comfort of a familiar environment.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Local council
‘A Royal Park in the sky’: Reece pledges seed funding for rooftop garden plan
The incumbent lord mayor says the city’s rooftops are an underused resource that could be transformed into thriving public gardens.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Healthcare
‘It’s the Wild West’: Gift cards, free holidays and annual payments for NDIS referrals
One service provider spruiked $20 vouchers at outlets such as Amazon, Myer and Sephora for NDIS client referrals. Ten or more referrals would be rewarded with an interstate getaway.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Healthcare
Private hospitals suspending ‘unprofitable’ surgeries as stoush with insurers deepens
One surgeon said many private hospitals were cutting theatre lists for plastic, breast and maxillofacial surgeons.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey and Henrietta Cook
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Healthcare
‘Worrying trend’: Record number of Australians raid super to fund medical treatments
There has been a 51 per cent rise in the number of Australians accessing their super early to fund medical treatments such as weight loss surgery, dentistry and IVF.
- by Henrietta Cook and Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Older, heavier and empowered: Record number of mums are having caesareans
The proportion of Victorian women having vaginal births is at an all-time low, with midwives concerned by the health impacts on mothers and babies.
- by Henrietta Cook
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