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Three years after the local Tristar clinic shut down, a new GP practice has opened in Mission Beach, saving grateful residents hundreds of dollars in…
NSW Health has now updated its pharmacy trial guidelines after ophthalmologists picked up an error in identifying two types of herpes zoster. The department confirmed last week…
As Sydney oncologist Associate Professor Nicholas Wilcken read the latest media reporting on ‘medical misogyny’, the familiar bristling over a term he considers “deeply offensive” took…
Researchers have assessed the cardiovascular risks for a variety of hormone therapies for postmenopausal women, finding ‘diverse effects’ for different treatments. For example, postmenopausal women…
When Dr Marcin Skladaniec began with Queensland Health, his greatest responsibility was to keep his local hospital’s lawns flourishing and mowed. Ten years later the…
A five-year-old with fulminant influenza A myocarditis was left with no chance of survival after a series of clinical failings at Canberra Hospital, a coroner…
Who do psychiatrists turn to when they need therapy? In Professor Brett McDermott’s case, a fellow psychiatrist eventually came to his aid, but not before…
AHPRA has been urged to pay greater attention to whether complaints are being lodged against doctors subject to domestic and family violence. This week, the…
A woman with obesity and PCOS who tried unsuccessfully to conceive for years did not realise she was finally pregnant until she was in labour,…
Private hospitals warn facilities will close unless the Federal Government hands over a bailout of $1.3 billion, or allow them to charge patients up to…
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