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Medical researcher Adrienne O’Neill lived with chronic fatigue for a decade before receiving a diagnosis.

It took 11 years for Adrienne’s illness to be diagnosed. A new computer model could change everything

Chronic fatigue syndrome is notoriously difficult to diagnose, but a new computer-assisted model can predict it with 85 per cent accuracy.

  • Broede Carmody and Hannah Kennelly

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James was diagnosed with ADHD after emerging from lockdown in the pandemic - part of a growing cohort diagnosed post-pandemic

How the pandemic prompted a surge in adult ADHD diagnoses

Everything changed in 2020. Millions of Australians found themselves stuck inside – just as an ecosystem of ADHD content creators was flourishing on social media.

  • Liam Mannix
The cosmetic injectables industry badly needs greater regulation to better protect patients.

Ugly reality of beauty industry demands urgent makeover

It is clear that cosmetic injectables businesses have galloped ahead of regulators. It’s time to put the patients back in focus.

  • The Age's View
The cosmetic injectables industry has boomed.

‘Brotox’ and ‘slimming injections’: Thousands of illegal ads spruik cosmetic injectables

Advertising regulations prohibit the use of terms such as wrinkle-reducing injections or colloquial names such as “tox” or “Brotox”. Many industry players advertise regardless.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook

Gone in 52 seconds: Inside Australia’s telehealth injectables gold rush

Australia’s booming $4 billion injectables market is driven by doctors issuing scripts via telehealth in consults that sometimes last under one minute. Critics warn patient safety may be at risk.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
Joseph Coates assumed he was going to die from a rare blood disorder before a doctor using an AI model found a lifesaving drug regimen for him.

Doctors told Joseph he was going to die. Then AI saved his life

Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

  • Kate Morgan
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Mediscared? Why Albanese and Dutton are bidding everything at a health auction

Labor will throw everything at health as it resuscitates its Mediscare campaign. And Dutton will turn old political dynamics on their head to stay in the game.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme would not be negotated.

Australians’ medicines are about to become cheaper. Why would Trump target them?

Australians pay some of the lowest medicine prices in the world for a reason: our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Here’s how it works and why it’s being threatened.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Patients will be able to receive 60-day scripts from September, with the same maximum co-payment of $30.

Dutton under pressure to match PM’s pledge to drop medicine prices by $6.60

Labor will bring the patient co-payment for subsidised medicines down to $25 from $31.60 as it wages an election battle over healthcare.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Albanese and Trump

Big pharma’s plea to Trump to punish Australia for cheaper medicines

US medical giants say Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is an “egregious and discriminatory” program that Trump should target in the next wave of tariffs.

  • David Crowe

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/medicine-hnj