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An anonymised scan, taken around 2am on a Sunday morning last year, shows a traumatic brain injury suffered by a St Vincent’s patient involved in an e-bike accident.

Head trauma, fractures, ICU: This is the e-bike ‘epidemic’

Two Sydney hospitals have treated 35 children injured by e-bikes and e-scooters this year as new figures reveal a surge in dangerous incidents.

  • Angus Thomson

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Emma Solomon will not be able to continue her treatment at St Vincent’s as she lives out of area.

‘There’s a lot to be really sad about’: The patients left behind when the world moved on

St Vincent’s Hospital will close its long COVID clinic and transition patients into existing services in a decision likely to affect hundreds.

  • Angus Thomson
The Scots College John Cunningham Student Centre.

Scots College built a $60 million library, but where are all the books?

Just five months after the private school unveiled its new student centre modelled on a faux baronial castle, parents are asking questions about the revamped library’s operations.

  • Lucy Carroll and Linda Morris
Patient Michael Smith from Leeton NSW is the first successful recipient of a device which uses a new approach to help pump blood while he wait for a heart transplant. Photograph at St Vincent’s Public Hospital with surgeon Dr Paul Jansz and Prof Chris Hayward , senior cardiologist

Michael thought he was just getting old. A world-first device changed his life

An Australian hospital has become the first in the world to implant a revolutionary device considered a “quantum leap” in preventing deaths from heart failure.

  • Angus Thomson
Jessica Rain Jones and her mother Jennie Jones. Jessica was an indigenous woman who died while at St Vincent’s mental health unit.

‘They took my child from me’: Families call for change after Indigenous suicides in same hospital

After the suicides of two young Indigenous women in a Melbourne mental health ward, the women’s parents are demanding answers and justice.

  • Erin Pearson
Associate Professor Tom Sutherland, director of medical imaging at St Vincent’s Hospital

Cancer or harmless? Doctors grapple with a rise in ‘incidentalomas’

They are the small, dark spots on medical scans that no one was looking for. They could be harmless or life-threatening, and they are on the rise.

  • Henrietta Cook
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Shark attack victim Lauren O’Neill is treated by paramedics after being bitten at Elizabeth Bay, and (left) with her kayak near the scene of the attack.

Hospital probes leaked photo of shark attack survivor’s leg

St Vincent’s Hospital has launched an investigation into a leaked, sensitive photo of Lauren O’Neill’s injured leg that was taken inside the emergency department.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas.

Questions deepen over St Vincent’s, Victorian courts hacks

Australian executives are being urged to be more transparent about data breaches happening under their watch, amid growing unrest over the recent spate of cyberattacks.

  • David Swan
Jamieson O’Reilly, the Founder and CEO of the cybersecurity firm DVULN, has uncovered a feature in the mobile phone system that can be used to bypass multi-factor authentication.

Low cost, high reward: The hackers holding Australia to ransom

Cyber attacks on companies are common enough, but will only become more so – and AI will drive an increase in their quantity and quality.

  • David Swan and Colin Kruger
Sydney-headquartered Medland Engineering, which has offices across Australia and in London, was given 10 days to pay a ransom.

Cyberthreats top CEO list of concerns for 2024

Corporate bosses say cybersecurity is their biggest worry over the next few years, in a major survey of Australian business leaders.

  • Colin Kruger