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  • Greens Senator Larissa Waters

    Menopause should be taught in Australian medical schools to prevent women being gaslit, inquiry finds

    Women were dismissed, offered ineffective treatments or wrongly diagnosed by healthcare professionals, Senate inquiry told
  • Cropped shot of an unrecognisable woman sitting with her psychologist during a consultation

    Melbourne psychologist began sexual relationship with client and shared details on other patients, tribunal hears

  • Ambulances in Melbourne

    Melbourne man dies after waiting four hours for ambulance, paramedics’ union says

  • A person gambles on a poker machine at a pub

    Calls grow for total ban on gambling ads as Australia’s annual losses surge to $32bn

  • A plane takes off from Melbourne airport

    Federal government approves third runway for Melbourne airport

  • A woman holds the hand of an aged care resident

    Use of antidepressants to treat pain in older people must be reviewed, study says

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Key issues

  • Sue Duncombe

    Crime and nourishment: the Koori court giving help and hope to traumatised kids

  • A composite image in two parts. On the left is a dark background with woman walking, her clothes are covered in squiggles. On the right she is walking into a bright field of flowers

    Agony and the urge to pee: the growing evidence giving hope to chronic UTI sufferers

    An Australian discovery has added weight to a long-held theory about the painful condition – but relief for most patients is still elusive
  • Clinical research to develop a possible cure for Alzheimers and dementia in the lab

    Alzheimer’s ‘breakthrough’ stalls: why a much-hyped drug is facing approval delays

    The benefits of drugs such as donanemab, aducanumab and lecanemab are proving harder to quantify than potential harms, experts say
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Antiviral

  • Composite for Melissa Davey's fortnightly column.

    Reader callout
    Antiviral: Guardian Australia’s new health column helps you determine science from snake oil

    Melissa Davey
    From serious questions to the more silly ones, this is a place where people can feel safe to ask questions about health and wellness news

Opinion

  • Andrew and Josella met through Tinder in 2021

    Andrew and Josella met online – it’s now the norm for more than half of young Australians

  • Kate Swaffer leaning on a concrete column outside

    ‘It’s the only disease where you’re not supported to fight for your life’: why Kate Swaffer is demanding dementia rights

    • A woman drinks a glass of wine as a man looks on

      My wife’s drinking is way over guidelines but she never loses control. What do you suggest?

    • woman's feet seen under toilet door in a public washroom

      Do you poo at work? Heeding the ‘call to stool’ is important – even if you’re at the office

      Yumi Stynes
    • Van Badham

      Fearing AI, I was reluctant to use ChatGPT. But friends, it changed my life

      Van Badham
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Science

  • Stunning microscopic worlds captured in video competition – video

    The winners of the Nikon Small World in Motion video competition have been announced, with zoologist Dr Bruno Vellutini's video showing the processes of fly embryogenesis taking first prize
  • People watch a full moon rising near Sydney, Australia in 2016.

    September Supermoon: the best place and time to see tonight’s bigger and brighter full moon

  • People standing in a circle holding their mobile phones

    Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds

  • Patients seriously affected by flu or Covid may have high levels of crucial enzyme, research finds

  • ‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

  • Modern-day dingoes already established across Australia thousands of years ago, research finds

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’: rare chance to see explosion on dwarf star 3,000 light years away

  • ‘Enormously exciting’ fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’

  • Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video

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Multimedia

  • How office buildings, factories and shopping centres can cause legionnaires' outbreaks – video

  • The Covid-19 Omicron variant’s increased transmissibility has prompted the question: should you consider switching your reusable mask for a respirator instead?

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    What face mask should you wear during the Omicron outbreak: N95, KF94, cloth, P2? – video explainer

    The Covid-19 Omicron variant’s increased transmissibility has prompted the question: should you consider switching your reusable mask for a respirator instead?
  • School teacher Dr Malcolm Binns holds a small jar of the compound of an anti-parasitic medicine used to treat malaria, called Daraprim, which was partly made by his students in a lab at Sydney Grammar School in Sydney, Australia December 2, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray

    Australian students describe how they made copycat Malaria drug – video

    Students from Sydney grammar school describe how they created a version of Daraprim, a drug used to treat malaria, in a school laboratory

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