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An X-ray showing a spinal cord stimulator implanted in a patient.

These spinal devices cost more than $50,000. A new study found they come with serious risks

An alien device resides under Marcus Barlow’s skin. Its metal wiring runs up and down his back, intertwining with delicate nerves.

  • Liam Mannix

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Index composite for story on Craig Nolte, who died in July in what was the first case of Australian bat lyssavirus in NSW.

Craig was treated for a bat bite. He died eight months later

Health authorities are investigating the “breakthrough” infection that led to Ballina tradie Craig Nolte’s death – NSW’s first from the rare bat lyssavirus.

  • Angus Thomson
Javeria Ahmad, with her son Ismaeel, now 10, who needed a bone marrow transplant as a baby.

A half-match transplant was Ismaeel’s only option. His parents jumped at it – they had been here before

A shortage of bone marrow donors is causing problems for Australians, particularly those from diverse backgrounds.

  • Penry Buckley
Pharmaceuticals are the third-biggest category in Australia’s export trade with the US, after beef and gold.

Trump is toying with us, but his 200% tariff threat could still harm sick Australians

A restriction on the supply of generic medicines to Australia is among genuine risks, regardless of the eventual tariff on pharmaceuticals.

  • Deborah Gleeson
Concerns about the way some doctors are prescribing medicinal cannabis have prompted AHPRA to announce new guidelines.

‘Profits over patient safety’: Doctors face medicinal cannabis crackdown

Patients in emergency rooms with cannabis-induced psychosis as well as rapid consults have prompted the medical regulator to tighten controls for the booming industry.

  • Angus Thomson
The new generation of weight-loss drugs: a daily pill?

Ozempic in a pill? The next generation of weight-loss drugs emerges

Rochelle McDonald has just been through the messiest of break-ups. “Guzman y Gomez were devastated,” she says, but 17 kilos lighter, she’s laughing.

  • Liam Mannix
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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr: having an anti-vaxxer in charge of America’s health system can’t be healthy for a company that wants to grow its vaccine business.

The Kennedy curse is hitting Australia’s vaccine giant

Having a renowned anti-vaxxer in charge of America’s health system can’t be healthy for a company that wants to grow its vaccine business.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Bottles of Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’s Molnupiravir antiviral medication arranged in a warehouse.

COVID antivirals are heavily marketed. It’s not clear how well they work

The expensive medication does little to prevent hospitalisation or death for people who are vaccinated against the virus, a new Australian analysis of randomised controlled trials has found.

  • Liam Mannix
Kate Aubusson with her husband Dylan and their children Lyra and Marlowe at the Annandale home.

Why my husband’s howl over back pain could happen 4 million times around Australia

An increasing number of people are calling triple zero for ambulances to take them to emergency departments for back problems. It’s not always the right answer.

  • Kate Aubusson
Medical research institutes are grappling with cuts to their research grants as a result of US changes.

‘A bomb thrown into the middle of science’: Trump cuts hurt Australian medical research

Local research institutes are suspending projects and laying off staff as US funds dry up.

  • Henrietta Cook

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