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WEBThe human rights revolution that granted the sickest psychiatric patients their personal autonomy ultimately cast them adrift. Can the mess be fixed?

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Psychiatry body’s radical challenge to transgender care

WEBThe peak psychiatry college has become the first medical body in the country to acknowledge shifting international evidence on transgender healthcare and …

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Artificial Intelligence the next step for NSW Health as new …

WEBA new NSW health task force will bring artificial intelligence programs into some of the nation’s biggest hospitals, in a technological first for Australia’s health sector.

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Programs to support students on placement need careful …

WEBWe need to sound the alarm on a looming critical shortage in the health workforce or Australians will suffer an increase in avoidable deaths from many illnesses …

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Biden administration shelves plan to ban menthol cigarettes

WEBThe Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public health benefits of banning …

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Globalised health bureaucracy a power grab The Australian

WEBThe new pandemic treaty needs a two-thirds majority for approval and once adopted comes into effect with 40 ratifications. The amendments to the International …

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Parents battle with mental health system ‘set up to fail’

WEBParents have described begging doctors in the public health system to help their acutely mentally unwell children for years and being repeatedly told there was …

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Health leaders create national alliance to end Parkinson’s

WEBThe NeuRA research aims to provide the brain’s the cells with a sustainable source of energy to combat the cell death that occurs in Parkinson’s disease that results …

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Private hospital financial crisis prompt closures

WEBThe $19bn private hospital sector is in financial crisis, with sky­rocketing wages, energy, insurance and debt costs fuelling concerns that more hospitals, health …

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Australia’s gender medicine clinics are failing to publish …

WEBMaple Leaf House in New­castle received 443 new referrals in 2023, and saw 983 patients. That compares with only 63 new referrals at Sydney’s major children’s …

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More GPs shift to bulk billing following the tripled incentives, new

WEBNew data, released by the ­Department of Health, suggests the bulk billing rate is stabilising, with the rate rising by 2.1 per cent to 77.7 per cent in March compared …

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Bethesda’s Neale Fong warns more private hospitals to close The

WEBBethesda suspended services at its $60m Cockburn clinic in February after nine months of operations, with Dr Fong pinning the blame on private health insurer …

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Scott Morrison suffered, medicated for anxiety while prime …

WEBScott Morrison has revealed that he faced mental health challenges during his prime ministership, suffering from anxiety that became so acute he received medication …

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Marcia Hines in health emergency The Australian

WEBMarcia Hines in health emergency. 4:57PM March 25, 2024. The latest from Marcia Hines' health scare.

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Flu crisis fears amid ‘vaccination fatigue’ and disinformation

WEBPicture: iStock. Flu cases have continued to hit new peaks as GPs and chemists scramble to get ahead of a sick season that was arriving sooner and could hit …

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Wealthy Boomers making health care M&A hot spot The Australian

WEBA growing number of older Australians is set to make the health care sector more prone to M&A activity. Picture: Kari Bourne. Ageing wealthy Boomers, staffing …

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Health system needs cash injection immediately The Australian

WEBImmediate injection of cash needed to save health system. Public hospitals need an immediate $4.67bn “recovery plan” to stop people dying while waiting for care …

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Wealth Health Organisation pandemic treaty needs close scrutiny

WEBNext month, the World Health Organisation is expected to finalise a new pandemic treaty that, once ratified, would become legal­ly binding on Australia and …

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Scott Morrison unloads on Malcolm Turnbull after being called a …

WEBMr Morrison says that, when leadership rumours began swirling in mid-August 2018, Mr Turnbull asked him whether he should try to flush out leadership rivals by …

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The wine dynasty departure which moulded a mental health crusade

WEBPip Brown was born into a winemaking dynasty but childhood anguish led her in a different direction – and she’s channelled that pain, and technology, to help fill a …

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Ramsay Health Care says hospitals are wearing the costs of …

WEBRamsay on Thursday reported a fall in underlying net profit of 23 per cent to $140.4m for the half, however once non-recurring items were removed the result was …

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Schizophrenia sufferer Joel Cauchi: was he failed by the mental …

WEBThe community care pillar that was supposed to form the safety net of a deinstitutionalised system following the emptying out of asylums and long-term mental …

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ASX 200 rises; Brambles falls; Ramsay Health gains; Star not fit for

WEBWelcome to the Trading Day blog for Tuesday, April 23. The ASX 200 index closed 0.5 per cent higher at 7683.50 points, boosted by tech, healthcare and bank …

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Paris Olympic sailing: Grae Morris, Matt Wearn silver at Hyeres

WEBParis Olympic bound sailor Grae Morris was delighted with his silver medal at the famous Hyeres regatta in France but his idol and teammate Matt Wearn not so …

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BGH preparing for $1bn ForHealth medical centre sell-off

WEBForHealth operates more than 80 large-scale, multidisciplinary medical centres, providing critical primary care services, including general practitioners, dental, …

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Wesfarmers runs ruler over Ramsay Health Care

WEBThe $74bn Australian listed conglomerate Wesfarmers is understood to have been carrying out detailed work in recent months, weighing up the merits of buying …

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