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Anne Weekes at Wee Waa Hospital: “The hospital is part of the fabric of the town.”

The hospital where you can have an emergency only during business hours

Patients used to turn up in the back of a ute, needing urgent help for a snakebite or farm injury. Now they can only do so between 8am and 5.30pm.

  • Catherine Naylor

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The newly opened Moderna Technology Centre at Monash University in Clayton, Melbourne.

‘We don’t have a Team Australia approach’: Vaccine facility rejects plea for help

A request by NSW to access a taxpayer-funded Moderna mRNA facility was knocked back, raising more questions about how much value Australia is getting from the facility.

  • Liam Mannix and Paul Sakkal
Medical misogyny has a long history.

From wandering wombs to the missing clitoris: How medical misogyny works

From Ancient Greece right through to modern medicine in Australia today, the treatment of women in science started badly and remains a serious problem.

  • Kate Aubusson and Emily Kaine
More than half of Australians aged 16 and up are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

This powerful lobby group claimed 665 pharmacies would close. Here’s what really happened

The Pharmacy Guild claimed 60-day scripts would force pharmacies to shut and cause 20,000 job losses. The figures tell a very different story.

  • James Massola
Eloise was on a suburban walk when she was struck by a car in August.

Roads are getting safer – but not for pedestrians

More – and bigger -- cars on the roads means pedestrians are at greater risk of serious injury.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Marta Pascual Juanola
Medical Misogyny.

Medical misogyny

This is an investigative series into medical misogyny. We will explore how medical misogyny is happening in Australia, and share the best ideas to address it.

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Foreign doctors are being sold the dream of living near the Sydney Opera House or at Byron Bay as the state government desperately tries to fill hospital psychiatrist roles. 

‘Opera House on your doorstep’: Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes

NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
NMN has skirted the medical drug pipeline and leapt to market as dietary supplements.

A new wave of ‘age-reversing’ pills is upon us. Should we bite?

As new drugs and supplements promise to help extend our lives, it’s hard not to be intrigued.

  • Angus Dalton
More than 125 products containing phenylephrine are approved for Australian shelves.

Pharmaceutical giant sued over ‘ineffective’ cold and flu drugs

Sick customers who bought some cold and flu medications have been falsely assured their nasal congestion would be relieved, an Australian class action alleges.

  • Neve Brissenden
Royal Melbourne Hospital chief executive Shelley Dolan has told staff to expect a whistleblower overhaul.

Royal Melbourne Hospital looks at whistleblower overhaul after fraud probe revealed

The move follows revelations in this masthead that Victoria’s corruption watchdog is investigating a handful of surgeons for alleged fraudulent billing.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook

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