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‘Watch this space’: How weight-loss drugs are triggering new eating disorders

‘Watch this space’: How weight-loss drugs are triggering new eating disorders

Inappropriate prescribing and poor support are triggering anorexia in previously healthy patients taking weight-loss medications.

  • by Henrietta Cook

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

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.

  • by Broede Carmody
Parents are paying $2500 to falsify vaccine records. It’s endangering babies like Riley
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Vaccination

Parents are paying $2500 to falsify vaccine records. It’s endangering babies like Riley

Australian parents are boasting about paying anti-vaccine nurses to falsify Medicare records of their children, putting lives at risk, an investigation has revealed.

  • by Kayla Olaya
The test changing how one of Australia’s deadliest cancers is treated

The test changing how one of Australia’s deadliest cancers is treated

The diagnostic device requires little more than a non-invasive blood sample and was developed in a Queensland lab.

  • by Courtney Kruk
Crisafulli issues health funding ultimatum ahead of national cabinet talks

Crisafulli issues health funding ultimatum ahead of national cabinet talks

The premier warns he will not sign a hospital deal unless the Commonwealth significantly boosts its offer and fixes the aged care crisis.

  • by Courtney Kruk