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• The little lives and long road behind a very big walk 06-11-2026

  Amy Moody's son Harry was so tiny when she first met him his entire hand could barely wrap around her pinky fingernail. Born at just 25 weeks and four days and weighing 875 grams, he arrived with almost no warning into a world of ventilators,

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• Former college head wrongly touched junior doctors 06-11-2026

  A former president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians has been banned from working as a doctor for at least year. Leslie Bolitho was president of the RACP from 2012 until 2014 and has been based in Wangaratta, in regional Victoria, si

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• Russia denies second case linked to Siberian plague lab 06-11-2026

  Russia's public health watchdog denies that a lab worker who died in Siberia had spread infection to another person, as global concerns swirl about suspected pneumonic plague. Rospotrebnadzor has said the lab worker at a plague research instit

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• CSIRO to partner with pharmaceutical giant for research 05-11-2026

  Australia's leading science agency has teamed up with a pharmaceutical giant to help prevent future biosecurity threats. A five-year partnership has been signed between the CSIRO and Moderna for a biosecurity accelerator.[subscribe] The pro

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• WHO looking at reports of second Russia pneumonia death 05-11-2026

  The World Health Organisation has asked Russia for information regarding a possible further death from pneumonia in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. WHO expert Abdirahman Mahamud said in Geneva on Wednesday that the request was prompted by a media re

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• Questions cloud coalition plan for migrant care staff 05-11-2026

  Sweeping cuts to temporary migrants won't impact Australia's ability to access aged care and health workers, the opposition leader insists, despite little detail on how the sector will be affected. The coalition announced on Tuesday it wou

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• Drug overdose 'crisis' as deaths double road fatalities 04-11-2026

  For every person who died on roads across a state in a year, more than two others died from drug overdoses. In Victoria, 632 people died from drug overdoses in 2025, the highest level in a decade, according to a Victorian Coroners Court report on

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• Experts call for medication reviews amid fresh figures 04-11-2026

  Every fortnight for the past two years Tim Benson has spent 45 minutes placing seven different daily medications into morning and nightly pill trays. The 75-year-old prostate cancer survivor and Type 2 Diabetic knows his medication organiser will

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• Study reshaping how childhood obesity is identified 04-11-2026

  Metrics for measuring childhood obesity and its prevalence may not be as reliable as once thought, according to a study led by Australian researchers. The study found rates of obesity is less common in early childhood years when using a new global

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• 'Asset-rich' Aussies could struggle to afford aged care 03-11-2026

  A growing number of older Australians need government-subsidised aged care and social welfare despite being deemed asset-rich. A study has revealed nine in 10 older Australians applying for government-supported aged care rely on social welfare pay

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