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• Norway's crown princess on list for lung transplant 08-06-2026

  Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on ‌a waiting list for a lung transplant after a further deterioration of her health, the royal ‌household says. The 52-year-old wife of Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegi

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• Doctor's drug prescribing had 'direct role' in deaths 08-06-2026

  A former medical practitioner who was the subject of multiple red flags played a direct role in the deaths of two patients through grossly irresponsible drug prescribing, a coroner has found. Nicholas Brown, Matthew Winwood, Toni Wiki and Belinda

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• Tax changes push biotech and health sectors offside 08-06-2026

  Some of Australia's leading health and life sciences organisations are urging Treasurer Jim Chalmers to review the changes to research and development taxes proposed in his budget. Sector advocates say while they're concerned over a number

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• Ebola cases hit 389 in DR Congo, including 63 deaths 07-06-2026

  The Democratic Republic of the Congo has raised the number of confirmed Ebola cases to 389, including 63 deaths. DR Congo Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba said Ebola infections had now spread across ​17 ​out of 36 health zones in Itu

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• 'Gives women options': chemists to prescribe the pill 07-06-2026

  Women waiting weeks and months in regional areas to get a doctor's appointment for a prescription for the pill can now head to their local pharmacy. NSW is the latest state to expand access to contraception beyond the GP's office after Vic

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• World-first for drivers who use medicinal cannabis 07-06-2026

  When veteran and medicinal cannabis user Michael James tested positive for THC during a roadside stop, he could not see past his humiliation. It had been more than 12 hours since he took his prescription medicine and its effects had long dissipate

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• Australians with MND will be able to remain at home 05-06-2026

  People living with a progressive disease will be able to remain at home as their health deteriorates due to changes in government rules. Health minister Mark Butler announced the Aged Care Rules would be changed to recognise motor neurone disease

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• Cruise ready to sail again after hantavirus outbreak 05-06-2026

  A cruise ship that was at the centre of a hantavirus outbreak has been disinfected and is ready to set sail again with passengers, its operator says. The Hondius is to depart on Saturday for the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.[subscribe]

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• Thousands of older Australians still waiting for care 04-06-2026

  More than 100,000 people are still on wait lists for in-home aged care despite the wait times falling. The latest quarterly data for the first three months of 2026 showed wait times go down by two weeks for high priority cases from between 1.5 and

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• 'Unprecedented' cancer jab can destroy whole tumours 04-06-2026

  Doctors have praised "unprecedentedly strong responses" to an injection that eradicated entire tumours in otherwise treatment-resistant cancer cases during a trial. It shrank the tumours for 42 per cent of patients in the Institute of Ca

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