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'Dread so deep': new parents struggle, don't seek help
Date of Posting: 28-11-2025
Year after year they fell pregnant and year after year they saw their babies' "little heartbeats". And year after year, Sydney couple Marcelle and Steve Cooper lost their much-longed-for children at around the same 12-week mark.[subs Read More...
Australia steps up to help tackle Pacific HIV epidemic
Date of Posting: 27-11-2025
Australia is stepping up to fill in aid gaps as the world's fastest-growing HIV epidemic threatens to overwhelm health systems across the Pacific. The federal government has announced a six-year $48 million program to support Pacific neighbour Read More...
'Invisible' cancer patients finally brought into focus
Date of Posting: 27-11-2025
The number of Australians living with incurable breast cancer is almost double what has been previously estimated, with thousands of mostly female patients invisible to health authorities. Metastatic breast cancer develops when the cancer spreads Read More...
Cancer researcher honoured as pioneer for women in STEM
Date of Posting: 26-11-2025
A melanoma researcher and oncologist has won the inaugural young women in science prize for her groundbreaking contributions to cancer treatment and care. Melanoma Institute Australia medical oncologist Ines Esteves Domingues Pires da Silva receiv Read More...
People with ADHD to save thousands as GPs gain skills
Date of Posting: 26-11-2025
Families with ADHD could save thousands of dollars a year as GPs are given more powers to treat the condition. A growing number of GPs can help continue prescriptions for ADHD patients over the age of six in NSW after the state government passed r Read More...
Deadly flu found on Australian sub-Antarctic island
Date of Posting: 26-11-2025
A deadly strain of bird flu has been detected on a sub-Antarctic island for the first time, but the government says the risks to Australia have not substantially increased. Scientists in October raised the alarm after observing an unusual amount o Read More...
Private hospital firm says some don't 'pay fair share'
Last Updated: 25-11-2025
Australia's biggest private hospital operator has singled out health insurers for not paying their "fair share" for client health services. Ramsay Health Care, which has a network of more than 70 modern hospitals, clinics and surgica Read More...
Private health firm jabs insurers not paying fair share
Date of Posting: 25-11-2025
Australia's biggest private hospital operator has singled out health insurers for not paying their "fair share" for client services. Ramsay Health Care, which has a network of more than 70 modern hospitals, clinics and surgical centr Read More...
Former UK PM David Cameron's reveals cancer diagnosis
Date of Posting: 25-11-2025
Former British prime minister David Cameron has revealed he had prostate cancer. His diagnosis has motivated him to speak out in favour of a targeted screening program for the UK's most common cancer in men.[subscribe] Cameron was urged to Read More...
Transport women suffer indignities over personal care
Date of Posting: 24-11-2025
Women in the transport industry are being forced to carry soiled period products in their pockets due to inadequate access to clean and safe bathrooms. Conditions faced by female workers were highlighted in a union report released on Monday that d Read More...
Women in transport want sanitary standards overhaul
Date of Posting: 24-11-2025
Women in the transport industry are being forced to carry used period products in their pockets and jeopardise their health and dignity due to inadequate access to clean and safe bathrooms. A union report released on Monday found that 82 per cent Read More...
Australia at a crossroads on the wellbeing of children
Date of Posting: 24-11-2025
Australian children do not feel hopeful about their futures, with many citing financial concerns and housing as their main worries. The inaugural State of Australia's Children report provides a snapshot of the nation's children and teenage Read More...
Ignored, unaware: mums highlight mental health battles
Last Updated: 23-11-2025
When Katrina Weynberg began experiencing severe mental health issues after prematurely giving birth to twin boys, her symptoms were initially brushed under the carpet. "No one took it seriously until my husband said there is something serious Read More...
Burden of a deadly cancer hitting women in their prime
Date of Posting: 23-11-2025
When Carolyn Groves found out she had advanced ovarian cancer, a consultant bluntly told her to get her affairs in order. "Ovarian cancer is one of those diseases where you can feel totally normal until you drop dead," the former nurse f Read More...
CDC adopts Kennedy's anti-vaccine views on website
Date of Posting: 23-11-2025
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recast the vaccine safety section of its website to align with the view of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that childhood vaccines cause autism, countering decades of science showing them t Read More...
Johnson government response to COVID 'chaotic'
Date of Posting: 21-11-2025
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry says. The United Kingdom Read More...
Treasurer blocks US takeover of Aussie pharma company
Date of Posting: 21-11-2025
A big-money bid for an Australian medicine maker has been scuppered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers after the Foreign Investment Review Board found the deal was not in the national interest. The sticking point for the $672 million acquisition of Mayne P Read More...
Why Young Australians Are the Most Stressed Generation: Inside Gen Z's Mental-Health Landscape
Last Updated: 20-11-2025
Walk through any university campus or scroll through any youth-focused social feed in Australia and you’ll hear a common thread: young Australians are struggling. Gen Z — those born from the mid-1990s to early 2010s — is experiencin Read More...
'Not good enough': hospital funding feud spills over
Date of Posting: 20-11-2025
State and territory leaders have met to break a deadlock on federal hospital funding as research reveals billions of wasted dollars. Premiers and chief ministers talked turkey on Wednesday morning as crunch time approaches on negotiations with Can Read More...
Oncology company reports promising cancer find
Date of Posting: 20-11-2025
Shares in a struggling oncology company have skyrocketed after a late-stage cancer patient taking one of its drugs saw her tumours apparently disappear. Nasdaq-listed stock of Sydney-based Kazia Therapeutics surged 51.7 per cent to a five-month hi Read More...
'Not weak to speak': men's mental health in spotlight
Date of Posting: 19-11-2025
Men are being encouraged to seek help for mental health challenges as gender stereotypes, behaviours and attitudes are affecting their interaction with the health care system and leading to potentially avoidable deaths. The Australian Institute of Read More...
Ultra-processed foods danger to global public health
Date of Posting: 19-11-2025
Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts. The scientists, including the Brazilian professor who coined the term with colleagues around Read More...
CSL injects $2.3b into US for valuable blood plasma
Date of Posting: 19-11-2025
Australia's largest biotech company plans to expand its US presence with a $US1.5 billion ($A2.3 billion) investment that will allow it to manufacture more therapies derived from blood plasma collected in the states. The funds injection could Read More...
Dire warning aged-care costs are a ticking 'time bomb'
Date of Posting: 18-11-2025
Australians face burgeoning costs to cover the needs of caring for the elderly unless the nation significantly boosts investment in the sector, the chair of a major aged-care company says. "I believe we're fast heading into a community cr Read More...
Younger Aussies are increasingly neglecting sun safety
Date of Posting: 17-11-2025
Younger Australians are increasingly choosing not to cover up when heading outdoors to enjoy the sun - a trend raising concern among health officials as summer approaches. Data released on Monday reveals just 26 per cent of people aged 13 to 28 co Read More...
State's bid for more cash in public hospital crisis fix
Date of Posting: 17-11-2025
Pressure continues to mount for federal government intervention on the under-fire health network, with one state claiming it has reneged on a pledge to boost funding. Tasmania's premier said people were becoming increasingly stranded in the st Read More...
Educating the Educators: How Teaching Roles Are Evolving in Health Care
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
When healthcare students imagine their future, most picture patients, not podiums. Yet behind every competent nurse, physio, or psychologist is an educator who helped them get there — often someone who still balances teaching with clinical prac Read More...
The Future of Clinical Simulation: How Technology Is Redefining Health Training
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
In a bright skills lab at the University of Queensland, a patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. Alarms sound, students rush to act, and tension rises — until the instructor calls “pause.” The patient, of course, isn’t rea Read More...
Lifelong Learning in Healthcare: Why Upskilling Never Stops
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
If there’s one universal truth in healthcare, it’s that learning never really ends. Whether you’re a newly registered nurse, a senior physio, or a hospital department head, the pace of change in medicine and care delivery means toda Read More...
New Program Helps GPs Rethink Antidepressant Use to Improve Youth Mental Health Conversations
Last Updated: 16-11-2025
With one in three young Australians experiencing a mental health condition each year, and suicide remaining the leading cause of death for 16 to 24-year-olds, the way clinicians approach antidepressant use in teens and young adults has never been m Read More...
Stroke victim's ancestors assist in miracle recovery
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
When Peter Sykes 'died', he found himself in a room full of spirits he recognised as relatives guiding him towards an open door. But something, or someone, told him it was not his time and after a month-long coma following a stroke, he wok Read More...
Major cause of death reaches lowest level in 47 years
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
Deaths from coronary heart disease in Australia have fallen to their lowest rate in almost 50 years, with dementia overtaking it as the nation's leading cause of death. Australian Bureau of Statistics data released on Friday shows coronary hea Read More...
Wild form of polio found in German sewage sample
Date of Posting: 13-11-2025
The wild form of virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the country's main public health body says in a setback for efforts to rid the world of the deadly disease. The findings come more than 30 years after the Read More...
Cancer survival gap widens for disadvantaged patients
Date of Posting: 13-11-2025
Cancer patients in disadvantaged areas are dying at higher rates than those in privileged communities as differences in survivorship grow. Medical advancements have significantly improved Australians' survival rates from one in two dying from Read More...
'No link' between paracetamol in pregnancy and autism
Date of Posting: 11-11-2025
There is no clear link between taking paracetamol in pregnancy and autism and ADHD in children, a comprehensive review has found. Researchers trawled all studies on the issue and concluded they were low quality, with "low to critically low&qu Read More...
'Difficult reading': depth of women's pain laid bare
Date of Posting: 10-11-2025
More women will get immediate pain relief while being fitted with contraceptive devices after a landmark inquiry revealed roughly half live with pain every day. The Australian-first inquiry into women's pain found medical gender bias and healt Read More...
Fatigue, brain fog tied to deficiencies going untreated
Date of Posting: 10-11-2025
Australian women are facing a silent epidemic of fatigue, brain fog and illness often caused by iron and vitamin D deficiencies, with experts saying early testing is critical to help treat it. More than one in five Australians overall are deficien Read More...
Aussies self-diagnosing mental health over the internet
Date of Posting: 10-11-2025
Australians are increasingly diagnosing themselves with complex mental health conditions after scrolling through social media or chatting with artificial intelligence in a shift experts say risks misdiagnosis, delayed treatment and worsening symptoms Read More...
'Unacceptable' gap found in whooping cough controls
Date of Posting: 09-11-2025
Hospitals are sleeping on an opportunity to vaccinate more Australians against whooping cough, a disease that's infecting the population at record rates. A probe from the Immunisation Foundation of Australia finds few hospitals are stocking a Read More...
Study links signs of poor heart health to dementia risk
Date of Posting: 09-11-2025
Middle-aged adults with biological signs of poor heart health are more likely to go on to be diagnosed with dementia in later life, according to a new study. These biological signals could be evident up to 25 years before a dementia diagnosis, res Read More...
