Aussie couple’s Christmas miracle after seven years of infertility, 18 failed IVF treatments and multiple miscarriages

For the past seven excruciating years, Nikki Quinn tried desperately to have a baby. The 32-year-old, from Sydney, wanted nothing more than to fulfil her dream of starting her much longed-for family with her fiancé Jade. But the couple endured years of heartbreak with 18 IVF cycles, six embryo transfers and seven devastating miscarriages. For … Read more

Health insurer HCF to give customers $176 million cash back

Australian health insurance company HCF has announced it is giving back an additional $40 million in health insurance claims savings to its members. Private health insurer HCF has already given back a total of $536 million since the start of the pandemic to its 1.8 million Australian customers as part of their pandemic-related savings support … Read more

Tom was complaining of ‘growing pains’. Then came a devastating discovery

Driving to hospital with her seven-year-old son in the car, Mel Wyse was overcome with a feeling of “impending doom”. “That gut feeling that just doesn’t sit well in your stomach,” she told 7NEWS.com.au. It was December 23, 2022 and Wyse’s husband had just spotted a lump on their son, Tom while at a Sydney … Read more

CHO backs Prince Charles Hospital after cluster of fungal infections in heart transplant patients

Queensland’s top doctor says he would feel safe having a heart transplant at a Brisbane hospital after two people died amid claims of a potentially deadly fungal outbreak. Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said it was still unknown if there was a common source for the fungus but indicated two types were found within heart … Read more

‘Chilled’ Surfers Paradise Schoolies with arrests, attendance down a sign of declining teen drinking

“People are more just, like, they don’t want to come and get smashed every night. They just want to go and do something more chilled, hang out with their friends.” It’s a comment to 7NEWS by one school leaver that sums up the apparent trend in attitudes of revellers at annual Schoolies celebrations on the … Read more

Raf to celebrate cancer-free Christmas as family raise awareness of immunotherapy for neuroblastoma

Seven-year-old Raf was an “ordinary kid”, running around with friends and celebrating his birthday with family, when he started complaining of a tummy ache. Blood tests did not detect anything amiss and he was diagnosed with a low-grade urinary tract infection and given some antibiotics. But when things didn’t improve, Raf’s mother Natalie Oaten took … Read more

Three deaths at Howard Springs COVID facility during forced quarantine probed in inquiry

An inquest into the deaths of three people during forced COVID quarantine at Howard Springs will examine the legality of their detention and the adequacy of their care. David Hardy, 77, Raylene Dick, 50, and Karen Bading, 56, were all classified as deaths in custody. The trio had been diagnosed with or suspected to have … Read more

Butterfly Foundation expects eating disorder distress to increase this festive season

For years, Mia Morrissey lived with a voice in her head. An “all-consuming” internal monologue that isolated her teenage self from those around her, reminding her she was not good enough. The actress’s complex relationship with food began when she was 10 years old, but it was at age 15 when her life was feeling … Read more

Vandal ruins nine-year-old Wodonga cancer patient’s Christmas display

A regional Victorian community has banded together to raise money for a nine-year-old cancer patient whose Christmas display outside his home was destroyed. Security cameras captured the moment a vandal tore down Ethan Simpson’s display in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The display was posted in the front yard of his Wodonga home and … Read more

Parents describe moment they found son dead in his cot on Boxing Day

The parents of a little boy who died in his sleep a day after Christmas have described the moment their “world fell apart”. Darren Midgley and Cheryl Szulhan’s son Jack, aged just 16 months, died on Boxing Day in 2022 at their home in Yorkshire, in northern England. Jack’s father described Christmas as “wonderful”, saying … Read more