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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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• Pharmacy trial to roll on despite concerns from doctors 03-11-2026

  A plan letting pharmacists prescribe treatments for a raft of conditions will go ahead, despite medical professionals voicing major concerns. Representatives from five peak medical bodies have written to NSW Premier Chris Minns, escalating concern

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• 'I wasn't listened to': mothers detail birth trauma 03-11-2026

  Going through nearly 30 hours of excruciating labour with her first born, Nadine cried out to nurses and doctors for an epidural or a caesarean but her pleas fell on deaf ears. After the pain worsened, jeopardising the baby's survival, she was

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• Voluntary assisted dying restrictions now 'redundant' 02-11-2026

  Barriers remain to accessing voluntary assisted dying, despite euthanasia being accessible in every state and territory, advocates say. In an address to the National Press Club, broadcaster and founder of advocacy group Go Gentle Australia Andrew

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• Russia says no plague, locals play down scare 02-11-2026

  Russia's health watchdog says no cases of plague have been detected among anyone who has ‌come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week, and locals said their lives had barely been disrupted. Auth

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• Kenya confirms first Ebola case imported from Congo 02-11-2026

  Kenya's has confirmed the country's first imported Ebola case from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Kenyan citizen who arrived in the country on Saturday from Congo via Uganda had been isolated and treated at Nairobi Hospital, Healt

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• Risk 'low' after Russian plague lab worker dies: WHO 01-11-2026

  A laboratory worker at a plague research institute ‌in Siberia has fallen ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, prompting authorities to quarantine dozens of people and the head of Russia's health watchdog to fly to the Irkutsk region.

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• Nobel medicine prize goes to research of brain activity 01-11-2026

  The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three scientists who created a tool using light to help unravel how the brain works. Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion chann

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• Climate change raises major disease risks for Australia 01-11-2026

  As global temperatures rise, Australia's warmer north is at increasing risk of mosquito-borne diseases including malaria and dengue. Both the malaria-spreading Anopheles mosquitoes and dengue-spreading Aedes mosquitoes thrive in warm, humid en

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• Hospital overcrowding fix pitched under $100m pledge 30-10-2026

  Shorter emergency department wait times and a better flow of ambulances have been promised as part of an almost $100 million state election pledge. Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has committed to 10 new or expanded patient transit lounges

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