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Autistic brains are 'not dysfunctional, just different'
Date of Posting: 28-08-2025
The brains of people with autism are not dysfunctional, they just work differently, according to experts. A UK study, which used scans to analyse brain signals, suggests "a different form of brain organisation" in autistic people that &q Read More...
Rash of allergies costing Australia billions
Date of Posting: 28-08-2025
Eating the wrong food could end Harry Norton's life. But instead of being frightened by this daily reality, he says living with allergies is a "bit of an asset".[subscribe] Increased public awareness has made the 19-year-old Canbe Read More...
Huge cost of missing early intervention for children
Date of Posting: 28-08-2025
Young people who miss out on important early intervention to address health and developmental issues are facing "a lifetime of struggle" that could have been avoided. The cost of failing to identify these issues has also surged almost 50 Read More...
Aged care trial begins on 'catastrophic' COVID outbreak
Date of Posting: 27-08-2025
If all aged care workers had been trained in donning personal protective equipment, would it have reduced the risk of a deadly virus outbreak? This is the question a jury is being asked to decide, as it is taken back through the horrors of how COV Read More...
Albanese backs 'difficult decision' on NDIS reforms
Date of Posting: 27-08-2025
Changes that will move children with autism off the National Disability Insurance Scheme have been labelled a difficult decision by the prime minister, as support workers reveal burnout problems in the sector. The federal government on Wednesday u Read More...
Lives on the line with $8b deficit in rural health
Date of Posting: 27-08-2025
Rural Australians are dying up to 13 years earlier than their city peers, with an annual healthcare spending deficit in the bush reaching $8.35 billion. That's the grim scenario set out by new figures released by the National Rural Health Alli Read More...
The First 48 Hours: Midwives' Crucial Role in Early Postnatal Care
Date of Posting: 26-08-2025
For many families, the first two days after birth are a blur of exhaustion, elation, and adjustment. While pregnancy and labour command much attention, the immediate postnatal period is just as critical. The first 48 hours set the stage for recovery, Read More...
Midwives and Technology: How Digital Tools Are Changing Birth Support
Last Updated: 26-08-2025
When many people picture midwifery, they imagine calm voices, steady hands, and timeless traditions of care. Yet increasingly, midwives in Australia are also reaching for tablets, apps, and digital monitoring tools alongside their stethoscopes. Techn Read More...
Cultural Safety in Migrant and Refugee Birth Experiences
Last Updated: 26-08-2025
Every year, thousands of migrant and refugee women give birth in Australia. They bring with them rich cultural traditions, unique health histories, and, in many cases, experiences of displacement and trauma. For midwives, this diversity is both a pri Read More...
Disability exodus looms as workers face burnout crisis
Date of Posting: 26-08-2025
Australia's disability support workforce is suffering from crisis-level concerns about pay, understaffing and burnout, a union survey says. The Health Services Union study, released on Tuesday, found 63 per cent of the almost 500 workers polle Read More...
'Pains me to the heart': MP fears NDIS autism changes
Date of Posting: 26-08-2025
As Australia considers changes to its national disability scheme in a bid to save billions of dollars, a Liberal politician and father of an autistic child is pained families feel their children are "inconvenient". Parents reacted with s Read More...
IVF genetic tests may help older women conceive faster
Date of Posting: 26-08-2025
Performing genetic tests on embryos created using IVF could help women over the age of 35 conceive faster, a trial has found. This could help reduce the "emotional toll" of repeated IVF cycles by slashing the risk of unsuccessful implant Read More...
Deadly infectious diseases on Australia's doorstep
Date of Posting: 25-08-2025
Australians have little knowledge of the threat on their doorstep from the world's deadliest infectious diseases and it has a crucial role in fighting them, the head of a global health partnership says. Lady Ros Morauta, chair of the Global Fu Read More...
Call for campaign to tackle TikTok birth control myths
Date of Posting: 24-08-2025
Young people are increasingly turning to social media platforms for information on contraception but experts warn a national education campaign is needed to ensure they are not led astray by incorrect advice. TikTok in particular has become a majo Read More...
Doctor accused of toilet filming wins fresh bail bid
Date of Posting: 24-08-2025
A junior doctor accused of secretly filming hundreds of hospital staff has been been bailed after a judge found his time on remand could be longer than any ultimate sentence. Ryan Cho, 28, made a second bid for freedom in the Victorian Supreme Cou Read More...
The wrong fit: children with autism moved off NDIS
Last Updated: 22-08-2025
Children with autism who rely on the NDIS for support will be diverted to a new program, touted by disability groups as a "once-in-a-generation" reform. Disability Minister Mark Butler used a speech at the National Press Club on Wednesda Read More...
More details sought on plan to shift autism from NDIS
Date of Posting: 22-08-2025
Advocates want certainty on supports provided to children with autism under a major overhaul of the NDIS, as the minister overseeing the scheme tries to reassure parents about the changes. Children with mild to moderate autism and those with devel Read More...
Details of review into IVF bungle to remain a secret
Date of Posting: 21-08-2025
An independent review into two embryo mix-ups at a leading IVF clinic has found human error and technology limitations were to blame, but the details will remain a secret. Monash IVF revealed staff transferred the wrong embryo to a woman at a Melb Read More...
Children with autism to be moved off NDIS in overhaul
Date of Posting: 21-08-2025
Children with autism will be moved off the NDIS and into a new program after a surge in the number of young people on the scheme. Disability Minister Mark Butler used a speech at the National Press Club on Wednesday to say the NDIS was not the rig Read More...
Doctor pleads guilty to drunken high-speed fatal crash
Date of Posting: 21-08-2025
A doctor who killed a young woman in a high-speed crash while almost four times over the legal alcohol limit has pleaded guilty. Perth obstetrician Rhys Henry Stone Bellinge, 45, on Wednesday admitted the manslaughter of Elizabeth Pearce on Februa Read More...
Q fever and clot undiagnosed before meat worker's death
Date of Posting: 20-08-2025
A rural health service and a doctor have offered their condolences to the family of an Indigenous man who died after a blood clot likely linked to Q fever went undiagnosed. Paul Harris died at Hay Hospital, in regional NSW, on October 17, 2019, af Read More...
When the end is near, psychedelics may ease the anguish
Date of Posting: 20-08-2025
Psychedelics could significantly alleviate the anguish, debilitating depression and death-anxiety often experienced by the terminally ill but its implications could be much more profound, clinicians say. In an Australian-first, a near three-year c Read More...
Disability funding reforms trigger 'so many questions'
Date of Posting: 20-08-2025
Long-term concerns about an overhaul of the NDIS are still unanswered, disability advocates say, as they wait for a major update on the multibillion-dollar scheme from the man in charge. Disability Minister Mark Butler will deliver an address at t Read More...
Biotech giant to slash 3000 jobs, spin-off vaccine arm
Date of Posting: 19-08-2025
Australian pharmaceutical giant CSL will cut as many as 3000 jobs and spin-off its flu vaccine arm into a separate business in a bid to shave $500 million from its bottom line. The biotechnology firm announced the shake-up at its annual financial Read More...
Mini hearts to save cancer survivors from heart disease
Date of Posting: 18-08-2025
Breast cancer survivors at risk of severe heart disease due to chemotherapy and other treatments could benefit from a new drug to protect them from cardiovascular illness. In Australia, more than 21,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer and Read More...
Prize shines light on top Aussie women in STEM research
Date of Posting: 18-08-2025
Women working in science, technology, engineering or mathematics sectors are being encouraged to apply for a world-first prize for emerging researchers. The inaugural Marie Krogh Young Women in Science prize, launched by healthcare company Novo No Read More...
Female-founded AI tool aims to transform women's health
Date of Posting: 17-08-2025
Women are taking control of their health with a game-changing artificial intelligence tool to help navigate a medical system that has historically gaslit, dismissed and ignored their symptoms. More than half of Australian women live with a chronic Read More...
Shane Warne heart tests bowl up 'bittersweet' results
Date of Posting: 17-08-2025
Shane Warne was a master at putting rival batsmen under the pump and Australians' hearts are facing similar strain. The late king-of-spin died, aged 52, in March 2022 after suffering a heart attack while on holiday on the Thai island of Koh Sa Read More...
Eat your fruit and veggies to help your mental health
Date of Posting: 17-08-2025
Eat your five serves of fruit and vegetables a day. That's the message from scientists to help reduce rates of depression, anxiety and stress. A study by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has found people who consume less than one serv Read More...
Weekend vices linked to severity of sleep disorder
Date of Posting: 15-08-2025
Late nights, drinking alcohol and smoking on weekends could be triggering a concerning sleep health phenomenon called social apnea, researchers say. Social apnea is a recently identified trend in sleep medicine referring to a weekend spike in obst Read More...
Poor effort, one-star: experts pan health rating uptake
Date of Posting: 15-08-2025
Consumers are stilling having to digest complex nutrition tables when shopping as brands thumb their nose at voluntary health star labels. Dietitians and other health experts are demanding health star ratings be made mandatory to correct its disma Read More...
Aged care food must give residents 'appetite for life'
Date of Posting: 15-08-2025
Delicious food can nourish older Australians' zest for life, but meals in aged care are often an afterthought, a culinary doyenne says. Aged care homes spend an average of $15 a day on meals for each resident, and while this might not sound li Read More...
Body image concerns as teens seek health advice online
Date of Posting: 14-08-2025
Teenagers risk being exposed to misinformation and harmful body image content as they turn to social media for health information. Research published by The Royal Children's Hospital on Wednesday found that while two-thirds of teens get health Read More...
Patient's heartbreaking final words before death
Date of Posting: 14-08-2025
"I want to go home." These were the last words spoken to a father by a young woman who died within hours of anaesthetic complications as she prepared for elective weight-loss surgery.[subscribe] Brooke Tiddy was admitted to St George Read More...
Illicit drugs drive state's decade-high overdose deaths
Date of Posting: 14-08-2025
Illegal drugs have fuelled an alarming rise in overdose deaths as one state records its highest number of fatalities in 10 years. There were 584 fatal drug overdoses recorded in Victoria in 2024, the highest figure in a decade and up from the 460 Read More...
Sleep Health Week: Researchers Recruiting Now for CBD Insomnia Trial
Date of Posting: 13-08-2025
During Sleep Health Week (11-15 August 2025), Australians living with insomnia are reminded that a new treatment is on the horizon – with clinical trial sites actively recruiting now. MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Avech Read More...
Why women are switching to reusable period products
Date of Posting: 13-08-2025
Six months ago, Selin Celikoyar bought her last tampon before making the switch to a "game-changing" reusable menstrual disc on the recommendation of a friend. Flexible discs and other reusable menstrual products are gaining traction as Read More...
Ancient ritual could help common sleep disorder
Date of Posting: 13-08-2025
An ancient ritual that involves blowing into a large shell could tackle the symptoms of a common sleep disorder, a study suggests. The practice of conch blowing, also known as shankh blowing, could improve sleep for patients with obstructive sleep Read More...
Bangladesh dengue toll reaches 101, 24,000 infections
Date of Posting: 12-08-2025
Bangladesh is experiencing a surge in dengue cases and deaths, with health experts warning that August could bring an even more severe outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease if urgent action is not taken. Dengue has killed 101 people and infected Read More...
Don't tough it out: tradies' mental health in focus
Date of Posting: 12-08-2025
Ben Pieyre has seen the language and actions around mental health transform during his two decades working in construction. Not usually considered a "touchy-feely" industry, it took some time for mental health to become a priority in the Read More...
