The doctor who took on Goop and the biggest threat to women’s health

The doctor who took on Goop and the biggest threat to women’s health

Seven years after gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter wrote a seething open letter to Gwyneth Paltrow,women are still being bombarded with misinformation about their own bodies.

  • byKate Aubusson

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Why I hang around public toilets watching what you do with your hands
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Why I hang around public toilets watching what you do with your hands

I do not miss COVID-19 lockdowns,apart from the way people behaved about matters of personal hygiene.

  • byJenna Price
The four NSW hospitals grappling with skin disease outbreak
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The four NSW hospitals grappling with skin disease outbreak

People potentially at risk of an outbreak of scabies which has broken out across multiple hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven area are being traced.

  • byKate Aubusson
Cooling tower that caused deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak found
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Cooling tower that caused deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak found

A Laverton North cooling tower has been identified as the likely source of the state’s worst Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in more than two decades.

  • byJewel Topsfield andHenrietta Cook
The one thing mothers can donate to help save premature babies’ lives
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The one thing mothers can donate to help save premature babies’ lives

Just seven mothers are booked in to donate breast milk used to protect premature babies from deadly infections,with high rates of cold and flu almost wiping out the regular donor base.

  • byKate Aubusson
The Sydney clinic barred from treating patients

The Sydney clinic barred from treating patients

The state’s healthcare watchdog is cracking down on alternative clinics offering a controversial medical procedure banned by regulators in the United States.

  • byAngus Thomson
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Doctors asked to cut back on IV fluids amid ‘extreme’ global shortage

Doctors asked to cut back on IV fluids amid ‘extreme’ global shortage

NSW Health has warned the state’s supply of intravenous fluids is critical as doctors say they may be forced to cancel some non-urgent surgeries.

  • byKate Aubusson andAngus Thomson
More Australians die while waiting for an organ donor
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More Australians die while waiting for an organ donor

More than 50 Australians died while waiting for an organ transplant last year – and the number of registered donors is declining.

  • byMary Ward
This man’s eye burst like a ‘balloon full of water’. He’s suing a hospital over an injection gone wrong
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This man’s eye burst like a ‘balloon full of water’. He’s suing a hospital over an injection gone wrong

Sydney Eye Hospital denies it breached its duty of care to Giovanni Busa,who is taking legal action over a procedure he alleges left him blind in one eye.

  • byAngus Thomson
IBS affects one in five Australians. What’s the best way to treat it?

IBS affects one in five Australians. What’s the best way to treat it?

It’s not known what causes IBS,and there is no cure,so the condition is often difficult to manage. But a new study offers clues for how best to find relief.

  • byAlice Callahan
‘Sex bubbles’:Why Victorians should keep a list of their sex partners
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‘Sex bubbles’:Why Victorians should keep a list of their sex partners

The state is in the grip of its largest mpox outbreak,with 76 cases detected over the past three months,compared with just eight cases last year.

  • byHenrietta Cook