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2 August 2024

  • Victoria’s chief health officer Dr Clare Looker

    Victoria records 71 legionnaires’ disease cases and outbreak’s first death as search for source narrows

  • Portrait of a man wearing a beanie, scarf and woollen gloves shivering from cold inside his home

    Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame

    Reena Gupta

1 August 2024

  • Vaping

    Cannabis vapes in Australia containing opioids spark calls for better access to anti-overdose drugs

  • Baby being spoon fed

    Australian researchers are feeding peanut powder to babies with allergies. Why?

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    Melbourne’s ‘explosive’ legionnaires’ disease outbreak surges to 60 confirmed cases

  • 240801 Closing the Gap thumbnail

    Is there a proven way to help close the gap?

31 July 2024

  • The Aboriginal flag next to Australia's coat of arms

    ‘Deeply troubling’ trends found in first Closing the Gap report since voice referendum defeat

    Malarndirri McCarthy suggests bipartisan approach needed for ‘positive change’ as report shows key Indigenous measures sliding backwards
  • Period products arranged symmetrically on pink background

    Inequality reporting
    Period poverty in Australia is forcing people to make their own menstrual products

    Report finds period poverty is spread across income brackets but affects more Indigenous people and people with disability

    • Nutrition and exercise as good as therapy for mild and moderate depression, study says

    • STIs surge across Australia while resistance to antibiotic treatments ‘increasing rapidly’

    • Australia news live
      Melbourne legionnaires’ disease outbreak grows – as it happened

30 July 2024

  • Ranjana Srivastava

    An elderly woman comes to hospital every second day. It breaks my heart to send her home

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • No cannabis gummies are approved by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto

    Full Story
    ‘Like a glass of wine’: the growing popularity of cannabis gummies – Full Story podcast

  • File photo of a female patient talking to a mental health professional

    Australian doctor who ‘almost died’ writes landmark guidance on how to safely stop using antidepressants

  • NDIS minister Bill Shorten sits with arms folded and a grimace on his face

    Concerns NDIS changes will create robodebt 2.0 are ‘complete rubbish’, Bill Shorten says

  • Australia news live
    Aurora australis may be visible, BoM says – as it happened

  • Legionnaires outbreak: Australians are contracting the lung disease, what is it and do I need to worry?

  • Legionnaires’ disease outbreak across Melbourne grows to 33 cases as authorities investigate cause

29 July 2024

  • Gloved Hand holding a Syringe

    Widely advertised hormone test unreliable as fertility prediction tool for women, researchers say

    Experts warn patients are making ‘significant life changes’ based on the anti-Müllerian hormone test, which they say is not reliable for many of its advertised uses

27 July 2024

  • intravenous drip in hospital room

    Australia is facing a shortage of ‘crucial’ IV fluids. What does it mean and who will be affected?

    Intravenous fluids have a ‘myriad of uses’ in the health system, but supply is expected to be constrained throughout 2024
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