Doctors from three countries fast-tracked to treat Australian patients
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Doctors from three countries fast-tracked to treat Australian patients

The move has infuriated the GP college,which says bypassing existing checks and balances could come at the expense of patient safety.

  • byAngus Thomson

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‘It’s the Wild West’:Gift cards,free holidays and annual payments for NDIS referrals
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‘It’s the Wild West’:Gift cards,free holidays and annual payments for NDIS referrals

One service provider spruiked $20 vouchers at outlets such as Amazon,Myer and Sephora for NDIS client referrals. Ten or more referrals would be rewarded with an interstate getaway.

  • byHenrietta Cook
‘Huge system failure’:Parents reeling after vaccine storage error at Sydney GP clinic
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‘Huge system failure’:Parents reeling after vaccine storage error at Sydney GP clinic

Hundreds of children will potentially need to be revaccinated after authorities discovered a storage error at a Dulwich Hill GP clinic dating back five years.

  • byKate Aubusson andAngus Thomson
Doctors travelling,posting scripts to avoid ‘suicide’ investigations

Doctors travelling,posting scripts to avoid ‘suicide’ investigations

While LNP leader David Crisafulli has promised “no change” to assisted dying laws,moral and legal sensitivities are already evident in how the scheme is being run.

  • bySean Parnell,Matt Dennien andWilliam Davis
We are fortunate abortion is no longer a hot topic,but NSW must ensure access

We are fortunate abortion is no longer a hot topic,but NSW must ensure access

The situation in Australia is far from that in the United States. But just because a woman cannot be prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy,it does not mean she can do so safely.

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To some,‘tapping’ therapy is a cure-all. To others,it’s pseudoscience

To some,‘tapping’ therapy is a cure-all. To others,it’s pseudoscience

A type of energy psychology also known as “emotional freedom techniques”,tapping is an alternative therapy with a growing number of adherents,but critics say it lacks any scientific basis.

  • byLiam Mannix
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The women who can’t afford an abortion and can’t afford to wait
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The women who can’t afford an abortion and can’t afford to wait

Vulnerable women are facing an agonising search for access to abortion that stretches well into their second trimester more than five years after pregnancy terminations were decriminalised in NSW.

  • byKate Aubusson
‘A huge hole’:Family hopes man’s death after knee surgery sparks change

‘A huge hole’:Family hopes man’s death after knee surgery sparks change

Kenneth Toll was one of three patients to die after receiving bilateral knee replacement surgery from a NSW orthopaedic surgeon,a five-day inquest heard.

  • byAngus Thomson
How scientists plan to use magnets to ‘cook’ cancer – without killing brain cells

How scientists plan to use magnets to ‘cook’ cancer – without killing brain cells

Tiny particles that look like dirt could be heated by a magnetic field to target cancer cells deep within the brain.

  • byAngus Dalton