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Mel Schilling

The bowel cancer symptom women can often miss

Bowel cancer is one of Australia’s deadliest – and most misunderstood – diseases. Mel Schilling’s death is a reminder to stay informed.

  • Nell Geraets

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The turf war between GPs and pharmacists is heating up after the Victorian government announced plans to allow pharmacists to prescribe oral contraceptives to patients without a doctor’s script

GPs reveal dossier of pharmacy blunders as prescription fight ramps up

A turf war has erupted between GPs and pharmacists over changes that allow patients to get the pill from pharmacies without a doctor’s script.

  • Henrietta Cook
National bulk-billing rates have risen by 7.8 per cent under Labor’s latest Medicare boost, but GPs say prices should be set independently to guarantee certainty into the future.

How GPs plan to end Medicare politics and change bulk billing for good

The college of GPs has been influential over government policy. Its latest call would dampen future election fights over Medicare by taking key decisions out of government hands.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Lucia Porteus Lucia was diagnosed with ADHD at 7 years old.

Lucia had time-blindness and missed social cues. Finding out why changed her life

NSW GPs will soon be able to diagnose ADHD under reforms to make it easier and cheaper for people to get treatment.

  • Kate Aubusson
Doctor Chris Webster inside his Leongatha clinic.

After financial woes, mushroom doctor closes his country practice

Leongatha doctor Chris Webster, who first alerted authorities to mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, is “going it alone” after a tumultuous 2½ years.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Health Minister Mark Butler.

This $8.5b Medicare promise was at the heart of Labor’s election pitch. How’s it working?

Improvements in the bulk-billing rate last month are being overshadowed by a bigger fight over hospital bed block.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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The entrance of cohealth’s community health centre in Collingwood, which has previously been identified as badly needing an upgrade.

Inner-north clinics axe free medical checks and services for thousands

One of Australia’s largest community health organisations say funding shortfalls are forcing it to cut GP services and sell its Collingwood clinic.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
Reverend Bill Crew talks to staff at the Reverend Bill Crews Foundation’s Health and Wellbeing Clinic in Blacktown.

‘It takes a certain breed of doctor’: The Sydney clinic that can’t find a GP

Demand for this brand-new Sydney clinic couldn’t be higher. The problem is, there’s no GP to run it.

  • Kate Aubusson
The measles sufferer (not pictured) visited, from left, Mooloolaba; West Village in West End and Brisbane Airport domestic arrivals.

Measles alert issued for Brisbane and Sunshine Coast

Queensland Health has provided a list of 11 locations in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast visited by the infected traveller.

  • Cameron Atfield
Lindsay Tuggle, Olivia Phillips and Rebecca Ballesteros.

Olivia’s extreme pain was fobbed off by 10 doctors. They all missed the golf ball-sized lump

Haemorrhaging in the bathroom, fainting from pain, being gaslit and dismissed by doctors for so long that they can’t have children: thousands of women shared their medical misogyny stories with us. This chronic condition was the single most common.

  • Kate Aubusson, Emily Kaine and Aisha Dow