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New national cancer plan to boost support for patients

New national cancer plan to boost support for patients

An Australian Cancer Plan will aim to address inequality for treatment access and improve support for those with a diagnosis.

Urgent training needed for aged care shortage: experts

Urgent training needed for aged care shortage: experts

Urgent training needed for aged care shortage: experts

Urgent training needed for aged care shortage: experts

With Australia's ageing population set to surge, a peak academic body has raised the alarm over a predicted shortfall in allied health workers in aged care.

Heat deaths on the rise as extreme weather intensifies

Heat deaths on the rise as extreme weather intensifies

Heat deaths on the rise as extreme weather intensifies

Heat deaths on the rise as extreme weather intensifies

As heatwaves, bushfires and storms become more extreme there are fears the hot and dry summer could lead to a spike in heat-related hospitalisations and deaths.

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Prevention better than cure to close rural health gap

Prevention better than cure to close rural health gap

A study of 66,000 private health patients in regional Australia has mapped out the rates of chronic disease and revealed poor access to specialist care.

Call to dump enforced drug treatment in youth detention

Call to dump enforced drug treatment in youth detention

A scheme with the power to force incarcerated youth into drug treatment has been found to "offend" human rights conventions and lack a framework for safety.

Porn leading to violence and grooming: Contos

Porn leading to violence and grooming: Contos

Australia needs to reckon with the "indoctrinating" force of pornography among young people and ensure higher "porn literacy," a leading consent activist says.

'Epidemic' of violence against women a national crisis

'Epidemic' of violence against women a national crisis

Politicians say the epidemic of violence against women is a national crisis, with calls for more to be done after a spike in deaths over the past 10 days.

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Financial boost for GPs to increase bulk billing

Financial boost for GPs to increase bulk billing

Financial boost for GPs to increase bulk billing

Financial boost for GPs to increase bulk billing

The bulk-billing incentive for doctors will be tripled in a targeted bid to enable more children, pensioners and healthcare card holders to see a GP for free.

Bulk-billed tests catch carriers of genetic conditions

Bulk-billed tests catch carriers of genetic conditions

Bulk-billed tests catch carriers of genetic conditions

Bulk-billed tests catch carriers of genetic conditions

Prospective parents no longer need to fork out hundreds of dollars to find out if they carry the gene for three deadly conditions.

Arthritis cure hope as 'Gremlin' therapy shows promise

Arthritis cure hope as 'Gremlin' therapy shows promise

Arthritis cure hope as 'Gremlin' therapy shows promise

Arthritis cure hope as 'Gremlin' therapy shows promise

A stem cell treatment that boosts cartilage growth in mice has researchers excited about a potential long-awaited cure for osteoarthritis.

Queensland's opposition ramps up pledge on ambulances

Queensland's opposition ramps up pledge on ambulances

Queensland's opposition ramps up pledge on ambulances

Queensland's opposition ramps up pledge on ambulances

LNP leader David Crisafulli has signalled an early election commitment to reduce ambulance ramping in Queensland as hospitals struggle.

Take control of your social media: body image activist

Take control of your social media: body image activist

Take control of your social media: body image activist

Take control of your social media: body image activist

Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt says people should take control of social media to remove harmful content and improve their online experiences.

Drunkenness law change on schedule: premier

Drunkenness law change on schedule: premier

Drunkenness law change on schedule: premier

Drunkenness law change on schedule: premier

Support services will be ready to help Victorians when public drunkenness is decriminalised despite delays to a sobering up centre, the premier says.

Croc block - traditional medicine provides pain relief

Croc block - traditional medicine provides pain relief

Croc block - traditional medicine provides pain relief

Croc block - traditional medicine provides pain relief

When John Watson lost his finger to a crocodile he treated the pain with traditional medicine from the Kimberley, which his people are working to commercialise.

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Sneaky salt shock prompts calls for mandatory limits

There are calls to restrict the amount of salt in certain foods as the nation's intake is way above recommended levels but poor choices aren't always to blame.

Sobering up centre won't open before drunkenness change

Construction delays will prevent Victoria's only dedicated sobering-up centre from being up and running when the state decriminalises public drunkenness.

100,000 patients eligible for heart drug under PBS

More patients can soon access a chronic heart failure medicine under the PBS which is set to save them hundreds of dollars per year.

Federal pollies take getting fit for office literally

Prominent politicians have engaged in a month-long fitness challenge, with the man in charge of the 'competition' portfolio ironically winning the lot.

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AI and virtual reality saving lives in remote WA

From a command centre in Perth, doctors and nurses are using artificial intelligence and virtual reality to save lives in a remote Goldfields region.

World's doctors call for urgent climate change action

Health bodies representing three million doctors worldwide are demanding urgent government action to limit the impact climate change has on their populations.

Drug possession decriminalised in one Aust jurisdiction

An Australian jurisdiction will not criminally punish people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs in what could be a test case for the rest of the nation.

Fierce battle over $150m palliative care funding 'cut'

The widow of a former palliative care patient wants the service better funding amid a political mud fight over whether a record spend is enough.

Thousands of patients take up 60-day prescriptions

About 200,000 prescriptions for 60 days of medicine have been handed out in the first month of new pharmacy rules.

Six-hour ambulance wait while 'distressed and in pain'

A woman has told an inquiry in Tasmania her 82-year-old mother waited six hours for an ambulance while distressed and in increasing pain.

Labor 'gooses' for failing to ban deadly silica stone

The Minns government has faced the largest protest in its existence after angry construction workers demanded engineered stone be banned.

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