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• World-first treatment boosts prostate cancer survival 14-02-2025

  Firefighter Patrick Fitzell was the picture of health until the day he started having trouble going to the bathroom. His wife convinced him to go for a "man check" which eventually led to a prostate cancer diagnosis, a move from New Zeal

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• Resignations puts private mental health care in play 14-02-2025

  Sending mentally unwell patients for involuntary treatment in private hospitals remains on the table, after more than 110 public psychiatrists quit. The mental health doctors were among 206 of the 292-strong NSW workforce to threaten to quit in Ja

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• More doctors go bush, but hospitals still squeezed 14-02-2025

  Emergency departments at regional hospitals are under immense pressure, despite more specialist doctors working in the bush. There has been a 75 per cent increase in the proportion of emergency medicine specialists working in rural and remote area

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• ANMF's vision for 2025 --transforming healthcare through workforce reform and support 13-02-2025

  In 2025, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is focused on enacting transformative changes aimed at improving the conditions for nurses, midwives, carers, and students, all while addressing the community's healthcare needs. Bui

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• Ozempic shows some promise for alcohol use disorder 13-02-2025

  Novo Nordisk's blockbuster GLP-1 diabetes drug Ozempic led to improvements in some measures of alcohol use disorder in a small trial, US researchers say. The 48 participants in the nine-week trial all had moderately severe alcohol use disorder

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• Doctors fear health fallout from nuclear energy plans 12-02-2025

  Doctors have warned of no "safe" level of radiation from a proposed network of nuclear reactors as battlelines are drawn for the federal election. Similar to other nuclear-powered nations, Australians living within a certain radius of a

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• Reason 'lazy' teens can't get up for school revealed 12-02-2025

  Laziness may not be behind Australian teenagers' chronic sleepiness despite one-third of a parents believing the myth. Research by The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne released on Wednesday shed light on the incorrect stereotypes fac

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• Woman's alcohol death prompts calls for delivery reform 12-02-2025

  Alcohol delivery services could be restricted after a woman died from alcohol poisoning, with a coroner finding she had more than 300 alcohol products delivered in the six months to her death. Kathleen Arnold, 30, was found dead by her mother in t

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• Gender bias in healthcare guidelines is failing women 11-02-2025

  Australian women are being let down by a lack of consideration for gender and sex in healthcare guidelines, leading to entrenched gender inequities at the highest levels of the health system. From medical emergencies such as heart attacks and stro

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• Drop in immunisation rates hits vaccine-maker's revenue 11-02-2025

  Revenue from CSL's flu vaccine-making business dropped sharply in the first half of the financial year amid a significant fall in immunisation rates, particularly in the US. CSL Seqirus brought in revenue of $US1.66 billion ($2.6 billion) in t

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