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• Australia's digital and connected health opportunity is bigger than healthcare 10-07-2026

  By Bronwyn Le Grice , Founder, CEO and Managing Director of ANDHealth Australia’s digital and connected health sector is ready to scale, but Australia is not yet set up to capture the value this sector is creating.[subscribe] As Australia

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• MS patients face losing cheap access to $30,000 drug 10-07-2026

  A decision is looming on whether thousands of Australians with multiple sclerosis will continue getting subsidised access to two life-changing drugs. The medications, which go by the brand names Ocrevus and Kesimpta, are listed on the Pharmaceutic

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• Patches could replace needles in vaccines of the future 10-07-2026

  Newly developed, incredibly small patches could eventually eliminate the need for vaccine injections. A study from RMIT University, along with international heavyweights Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, found a potential neat sol

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• 'Window closing' for wildlife as bird flu threat mounts 10-07-2026

  Australia has been warned the clock is ticking to protect wildlife as another suspected bird flu case has been detected. Experts have called for more federal funding to boost at-risk wildlife, saying there is only a small window to act while confi

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• Young footballer's death ignites on-field safety fears 09-07-2026

  A young footballer's death after an on-field tragedy has sparked a broader conversation about the risks of being tackled on cricket pitches at suburban grounds. Nathan Fitzgerald, 27, suffered critical head injuries during a Australian rules f

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• 'My life is over': teens' social posts can be warnings 09-07-2026

  A teenager who sent a Facebook message saying she felt her life was over was described as hormonal and "dramatic". Another distressed young woman who posted she was having trouble staying afloat was dismissed as a "typical female&qu

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• The deadly cancer that survivors say is easy to miss 09-07-2026

  For Sam Mathias, it was a sore shoulder and strange sensations in his lungs that the fit 22-year-old dismissed as "little niggles". At the time, he was finishing university, training in boxing and preparing to start a full-time banking c

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• Saving lives, playing gigs all in a country practice 08-07-2026

  By day, Tony McLellan is a respected doctor who has delivered countless babies, revived heart attack patients and cared for disaster victims in a make-shift rural intensive care unit. By night, he's the bass player in pub rock-country-folk out

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• 'Pure elation': Aussie IVF innovation sparks baby joy 08-07-2026

  Years of trying to fall pregnant without success left Annie and her partner Jack feeling ashamed, confused and frustrated. That turned to joy after the couple joined a study testing a pioneering 3D-printed IVF device smaller than the width of a hu

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• Precautions urged as sixth bird flu case confirmed 08-07-2026

  Poultry farmers have been advised to keep free-range hens inside temporarily as authorities respond to an emerging bird flu threat. The deadly H5N1 strain has now been confirmed in a migratory bird in NSW, making it Australia's sixth confirmed

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