Doctors say consumer health tests can encourage people to be more proactive about their health, but they are also leading to increased body monitoring and health anxiety.

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Legal but not available: Who decides what healthcare is on the table?

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Legal but not available: Who decides what healthcare is on the table?

IVF, abortion and voluntary assisted dying services are all legal. But when a Catholic provider takes over a hospital and drops services the church opposes, the community is left without.

#newcastle #catholic

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Former NT administrator opens up about being groomed as a child

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Former NT administrator opens up about being groomed as a child

Former Northern Territory administrator Hugh Heggie was just 14 years old when an older church youth group leader began grooming him. He says he hopes sharing his story will help other survivors feel less alone.

#heggie #territory #hugh

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Registered psychologist accused of recruiting for Universal Medicine cult

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Registered psychologist accused of recruiting for Universal Medicine cult

A Victorian survivor of childhood sexual abuse went to a psychologist seeking help. Instead, she alleges she was recruited to a cult found to be "socially dangerous" and "sexually manipulative".

#universal-medicine #hickman #victorian

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Skyrocketing regional airfares hurting patients needing specialist care

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Skyrocketing regional airfares hurting patients needing specialist care

Residents and medical professionals say WA's reliance on FIFO doctors leaves regional residents vulnerable to rising flight prices.

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PM urged to redirect funding for gas hub to new Royal Darwin Hospital

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PM urged to redirect funding for gas hub to new Royal Darwin Hospital

Doctors and nursing groups are urging Anthony Albanese to cancel funding for the Northern Territory's Middle Arm precinct and use the money to pay for a new Royal Darwin Hospital.

#albanese #royal-darwin-hospital

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Midwife will have to turn away clients under homebirth changes

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Midwife will have to turn away clients under homebirth changes

Jenny Spencer says she will have to halve her caseload under a new federal insurance scheme that only covers some private midwives for homebirth.

#midwife #insurance #jenny

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Life-saving medicines frequently in short supply and doctors are worried

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Life-saving medicines frequently in short supply and doctors are worried

ABC analysis reveals the important medicines that are repeatedly hard to source, highlighting supply chain weaknesses that could get worse.

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Man dies and toddler hospitalised after being pulled from water

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Man dies and toddler hospitalised after being pulled from water

A man has died and a toddler is in a serious condition after being pulled from the water at Fishermans Reach on the NSW Mid North Coast.

#coast #fishermans #reach

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Severe alcohol-related liver disease common in younger Australians

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Severe alcohol-related liver disease common in younger Australians

A new report finds rates of alcohol-associated hepatitis had increased drastically during the pandemic and still remain higher than pre-COVID-19 levels, with women and young people identified as at-risk groups.

#australia #allen #pandemic

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