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Would you have surgery if it badly impacted Earth’s carbon footprint?
A new study explores the potential cost to the planet of future surgical procedures.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Why Angela feels unbearable pain from a leg that is no longer there
An unbearable electric current shoots down Angela’s left leg. She reaches down to rub it, but there’s no leg there.
- by Kate Aubusson
WHO has declared mpox a global emergency. Why?
What do we know about mpox, and what does this mean for Australians? Who is most at risk, and how can they protect themselves?
- by Kate Aubusson
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Healthcare
How Tom walked away from knee pain without expensive surgery
An orthopaedic surgeon is talking patients out of operating on their knees and his diagnosis leaves them shocked.
- by Kate Aubusson and Liam Mannix
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Women's health
The doctor who took on Goop and the biggest threat to women’s health
Seven years after gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter wrote a seething open letter to Gwyneth Paltrow, women are still being bombarded with misinformation about their own bodies.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Illness
The four NSW hospitals grappling with skin disease outbreak
People potentially at risk of an outbreak of scabies which has broken out across multiple hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven area are being traced.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Babies
The one thing mothers can donate to help save premature babies’ lives
Just seven mothers are booked in to donate breast milk used to protect premature babies from deadly infections, with high rates of cold and flu almost wiping out the regular donor base.
- by Kate Aubusson
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IVF
Bid to change ‘archaic’ IVF rules to include solo and same-sex parents
The definition of infertility to receive Medicare-funded fertility treatment requires couples to try to conceive through unprotected sex for one year.
- by Kate Aubusson
A leg or a useless paperweight: When can a severed limb be reattached?
When a surfer’s leg washed up on a NSW beach after he was mauled by a three-metre shark, the speculation began. Would surgeons reattach it?
- by Kate Aubusson
Doctors asked to cut back on IV fluids amid ‘extreme’ global shortage
NSW Health has warned the state’s supply of intravenous fluids is critical as doctors say they may be forced to cancel some non-urgent surgeries.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
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Hospitals
Painful contraction for private maternity hospitals
One in four women gives birth in private hospitals. The collapse of private obstetrics will have huge flow-on effects for the public system.
- by Kate Aubusson
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