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• Australia falls behind providing life-saving care 09-12-2025

  Australians are facing an average five-year wait for life-saving medical technologies due to outdated systems delaying patient access. A national report has found while medical technology is advancing rapidly overseas, Australia's system remai

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• 50 Medicare Mental Health Centres now providing free mental health support across Australia 08-12-2025

  With the recent opening of a new Medicare Mental Health Centre in Campbelltown (New South Wales), there are now 50 Centres operating across Australia — providing more people with access to free, walk-in mental health support and care. Medica

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• NDIS gap leaves thousands with no psychosocial support 08-12-2025

  People living with significant psychosocial disability are being left unsupported and at risk of homelessness and hospitalisation despite billions of dollars spent on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Psychosocial disability refers

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• Warnings Australian food at risk under corporate voices 08-12-2025

  Australians' diets could worsen if corporate interests are allowed to dominate food policy, experts warn. The newly appointed National Food Council will gather in Canberra for the first time on Monday to develop a plan aimed at boosting the se

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• No sweat: perspiration tests to revolutionalise health 08-12-2025

  A humble bead of sweat can be telling, exposing first-date nerves, an unexpected run for the bus or Christmas shopping panic. But it has the power to reveal much more.[subscribe] Testing sweat can detect key biomarkers linked to stress, diabete

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• UK trials prostate treatment with less side effects 07-12-2025

  A groundbreaking trial for a prostate cancer treatment with fewer side-effects has launched in the UK. Backed by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the trial will examine whether Aquablation - a therapy using robotics, AI

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• US scraps hep B vaccine advice for most children 07-12-2025

  A group of vaccine advisers have scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all US children receive the hepatitis B shot at birth, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public h

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• Doctors take jab at 'shady tactics' of health insurers 07-12-2025

  Australians need better protection from rising private health insurance premiums, narrowing coverage and shady tactics, doctors warn. The Australian Medical Association's annual Private Health Insurance Report Card reveals a system where many

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• Diabetic driver in bid to dodge five-death inquest 05-12-2025

  A driver with diabetes who ploughed into and killed five people outside a pub will object to giving evidence after being called as a witness at an inquest. William Swale was initially charged with 14 offences, including five counts of culpable dri

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• Barriers hinder Indigenous dementia support on Country 05-12-2025

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are at higher risk of developing dementia, but many are not receiving a diagnosis, with experts urging better supports. About 2500 Indigenous people are living with diagnosed dementia across Australia,

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