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Broede Carmody

Broede Carmody

Broede Carmody is a health reporter for The Age. Previously, he was a state political reporter for The Age and the national news blogger for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Mackenzie Sinclair’s asthma symptoms emerged in primary school. But she wasn’t formally diagnosed until she was an adult.

Mackenzie was enjoying a refreshing drink on a cold day. Then she suddenly couldn’t breathe

Mackenzie Sinclair was walking through a bustling Melbourne Central last spring when she realised she could no longer breathe.

  • Broede Carmody

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Carol Chevalier at her home in Camberwell. A lump on her pancreas was discovered by sheer luck.

Carol raced to hospital with a kidney stone. Then doctors found something much worse

A growing number of Australians are at risk of these types of cancers. But experts say research spending doesn’t match the scale of the problem.

  • Broede Carmody
A man rides an e-scooter the wrong way down Little Bourke Street with no helmet in 2024, swerving to miss an oncoming car.

‘Serious injuries’: 67 per cent rise in children hurt by e-scooters in just one year

The injuries, which commonly occur among boys aged 10 to 14, can include broken bones, fractured skulls and even a ruptured spleen.

  • Broede Carmody
Dr Shivani Pasricha, a laboratory head in the department of infectious diseases at the Doherty Institute.

Melbourne device could prove ‘game changing’ for sexual health

A laptop-sized piece of medical equipment is set to cut days off STI test results and offer more accurate results by searching for distinct genetic “barcodes”.

  • Broede Carmody
Ballarat Community Health clinical lead Mel Lishman (right) and peer support worker Dean Seabrook work in drug and alcohol services in the region.

‘Uber drivers’: Why specialist nurses are spending hours ferrying patients across the state

Ballarat nurses are spending hundreds of hours driving clients to detox facilities in Melbourne, despite repeated calls for a facility in the region.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola and Broede Carmody
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Liberal Party leadership spill as it happened: Angus Taylor outlines vision for party’s future after becoming leader; Sussan Ley to quit politics; Jane Hume elected deputy leader

Angus Taylor has taken the top job in the Liberal Party after defeating Sussan Ley in a leadership spill.

  • Emily Kaine, Nick Newling, Brittany Busch and Broede Carmody
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The vinyl art wraps on display at Albury Wodonga Health.

Cash-strapped hospital under fire for spending $200,000 of charity funds on art

Many op shop volunteers are furious with the allocation, and the saga has sparked a complaint to the state corruption watchdog.

  • Broede Carmody
A new gestational diabetes hot spot has established itself in Melbourne’s southeast, according to researchers.

Melbourne is developing a new gestational diabetes hot spot. Why?

Gestational diabetes rates have skyrocketed in Melbourne’s southeast within a very short timeframe, piling additional pressure on the state’s health system.

  • Broede Carmody
Triple Zero Victoria’s annual report was belatedly tabled on Tuesday.

Triple Zero fails to meet ambulance dispatch benchmark, again

The Victorian government has quietly tabled a belated annual report revealing Triple Zero once again missed life-saving dispatch targets.

  • Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
SharkSafe Barrier has proposed an installation at St Kilda Beach in Melbourne.

As skin cancer rates rise across Victoria, one group is more at risk than others

Despite decades of sun-smart education, the number of treatments for certain types of skin cancer is on the increase.

  • Broede Carmody