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Premier Jacinta Allan had heavy and drawn-out periods as a young person, later diagnosed as endometriosis.

‘Wild with rage’: It took Jacinta Allan more than a decade to learn the source of her pain

Women who have sought help over years for a condition more common than diabetes say they have felt gaslit and disbelieved, and live in excruciating pain. Jacinta Allan is among the 1 million Australians hoping for better.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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Northern Beaches Hospital

Banks step in to keep Healthscope running as receivers appointed

The Minns government is under increasing pressure to buy back the Northern Beaches Hospital after its major private hospital operator went into receivership.

  • Kate Aubusson and Colin Kruger
A new scan could detect Alzheimer’s earlier.

Brain scan to detect Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear in world first

A world-first brain scanning technique could identify signs of Alzheimer’s disease long before symptoms appear.

  • Laura Donnelly

‘It triggers an explosion’: What causes allergies and can they be prevented?

Five million Australians have allergies. How can parents know if their child has one? And how is an intolerance different?

  • Jackson Graham
Oscar Larrainzar, recipient of the first-ever human bladder transplant, waits to be discharged.

Oscar was a ticking time bomb. Now he has hope

Surgeons have performed the first human bladder transplant, introducing a new, potentially life-changing procedure for people with debilitating conditions.

  • Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
A man has his skin scanned for melanomas in a Vectra machine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Queensland.

$10m was spent on these melanoma scanners. Doctors were better at detecting cancer

Is this new scanner a medical miracle, or a cautionary tale about the perils of shiny new tech?

  • Liam Mannix
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A huge clinical trial of a drug derived from a bacterium found on Easter Island is underway, testing whether it can increase dog lifespans.

‘Ambitious but possible’: The project that might boost your dog’s lifespan

A new drug holds the promise of extending the lives of our much-loved canine companions – and potentially our own.

  • Ian Cuthbertson
KJ Muldoon after a follow up dose of an experimental gene editing treatment at the hospital in April 2025

Baby KJ was born with a rare, deadly disease. A one-of-a-kind gene tweak healed him

As KJ thrives, doctors hope the world-first treatment can someday help millions of people left behind because their genetic conditions are so uncommon.

  • Laura Ungar
Emergency departments in NSW are treating a record number of the most critically ill patients, while wait times have also increased.

‘Beyond comprehension’: The massive blind spot in NSW’s health funding

NSW’s underfunded and overstretched healthcare system risks being overwhelmed by the avalanche of an ageing and chronically ill population who have been failed by the state’s focus on acute hospital beds, a special commission of inquiry has warned.

  • Kate Aubusson
METROS: Anthony Albanese and Labor Medicare feature.

Albanese sold his big health promise to the people. The fight isn’t over yet

With bulk-billing in freefall, Anthony Albanese will need to defy gravity to avoid angering voters promised more free visits to the GP.

  • Angus Thomson

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