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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

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Kate Burns and Abigail Rodwell.

Gaslit, dismissed and treated as hypochondriacs: The gender divide in iron deficiency

Ignored by doctors for years, Abigail almost died, with one doctor in the end saying she had the blood count of a shark attack or car crash victim.

  • Kate Aubusson
A groundbreaking clinical study will utilise Optiscan’s InVue microscopic precision surgery device, as well as its InForm digital pathology imaging system, to create a new, improved treatment regimen for breast cancer patients.

Melbourne breast cancer trial to test Optiscan imaging device

Optiscan Imaging is recruiting patients into a Melbourne trial of its innovative precision surgery and pathology devices to improve breast cancer surgeries.

  • Belinda Hickman
Optiscan Imaging’s newly launched InForm diagnostic imaging device aims to bring digital technology into the pathology industry.

Uber-fast Optiscan diagnostic tool a pathology game-changer

Optiscan Imaging’s new medical imaging microscope is designed to speed up and improve pathology testing by using real-time digital imaging of tissue samples.

  • James Pearson
Maddie Thwaites and Ciaran McAuley with their two-year-old daughter, Mairead.

‘I am just so thankful’: The test that let little Mairead beat the odds

The findings of a landmark genetic study bolster calls for the federal government to establish a free expanded carrier screening program.

  • Kate Aubusson
Pathologist Richard Scolyer inside his lab this week.

Any day was a bad day to have a bike crash. The day Richard Scolyer broke his neck was a particularly bad one

In an extract from his new book, Brainstorm, the world-renowned pathologist goes behind the scenes on a momentous week.

  • Richard Scolyer
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Cellular count makes the blood boil

Content creators make the wrong call.

The Royal College of Pathologists of Australia is warning of an acute shortage of pathologists.

‘The cancer you didn’t suspect’: Medical test delays could be endangering patients

Patients are facing stressful waits for results from some medical tests, including cancer diagnoses, with fears the delays could impact their treatment.

  • Henrietta Cook
Shane and Katherine Tuck at the Brownlow in 2009.

‘His brain was just toasted’: It was only after Shane’s death that his family learnt the truth

An Australian medical peak body has become the first to speak out about the long-term impact of repeated head trauma on athletes and their families.

  • Angus Thomson
Royal Hospital for Women has successfully grown tissue from all types of endometriosis, which will help them diagnose and treat the condition in women. Kate Ford, photograpged at home in Oyster Bay, suffers from endometriosis.

Endometriosis affects one in nine women. World-first research at a Sydney hospital is giving them hope

A breakthrough paves the way for research into effective treatments, potentially limiting the need for invasive and painful surgeries.

  • Angus Thomson and Wendy Tuohy