Public health

Strapping young Brayden Chater was a great defender for his local rugby league team who loved to tackle.Which is ironic, because the lack of a meningococcal B vaccine on the NSW immunisation schedule left him completely defenceless against…

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of people who have diedFriends and family have paid tribute to aspiring Adelaide rapper Tyrone Anthony Weetra after the young man died following…

Rachel Lee remembers the last time she heard from her best friend of two decades, Daniel Stone.“He sent me a message just full of hope and happiness, and he couldn’t wait to talk to me about what was going on in his life,” she told…

On the morning of September 11, critical care specialist Anoop Kumar was presented with an unusual situation. Four members of the same family had been admitted to his hospital—Aster MIMS in Kozhikode, Kerala—the previous day, all similarly…

Using an unblemished femur from the same burial site as a control, his lab extracted degraded DNA present in the bone, sequenced it, and identified strings of nucleotides that resembled portions of reference genomes for T. pallidum. The…

The national medicine regulator has introduced restrictions on the prescription of diabetes drug Ozempic to help manage an international shortage.Danish company Novo Nordisk advised the Therapeutic Goods Administration that supply of the…

Victorians have been urged to stay on high alert as cases of a flesh-eating bacterial infection increase in the state.Coburg grandmother Fiona Wordie first felt an itch on her foot and assumed she had suffered a spider bite.Within days, the…

Abortion has been removed from Western Australia’s criminal code and access will be easier for women, in sweeping reforms passed by the state parliament.The amended laws to address inequity bring WA into line with other jurisdictions and…

Janette MacLeod had ridden in the back of a ute before — in fact, she said it was fairly common for people in country areas.But after an accident at a party she is now living with quadriplegia.MacLeod, known to her friends as Jannie, was…

Jenay Berg and Aaron Hilton went through five years of IVF treatments, undergoing multiple treatment rounds and procedures.Finally, the New Zealand couple discovered on Christmas Day in 2022 their miracle baby was finally coming.Kyson was…