Extreme heat is a health crisis, Columbia experts say
The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, scientists are warning.
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Donor children could contact biological parents before 18 under new proposals
Existing UK fertility law should be updated to regulate modern treatments, says HFEAChildren born via sperm or egg donation would not need to wait until adulthood to find out more about their biological parents, under proposed changes to the law in the…
Japanese encephalitis may have infected one in 30 people in parts of northern Victoria
Health department has expanded vaccine eligibility after a survey indicated the virus was more widespread than previously reportedFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily new…
Opposition criticises super proposal – as it happened
This blog is now closedAlbanese government lifts tax rate on superannuation balances over $3mGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast‘Really clear’ wages are not driving inflation, Tony Burke saysCircling back to the in…
Patients losing out amid slump in NHS clinical trials, warn top clinicians
UK falls from fourth to 10th place in phase III trials amid ‘ossified’ bureaucracy and stretched health serviceThe state of clinical trials in the NHS is “much worse than it has been in years” with patients losing access to cutting-edge cancer and deme…
Deadly new UK strep A variant leading to disease surge in Australia
Latest research finds the invasive variant produces significantly higher levels of a toxin than previous strainFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe invasi…
Veterans are being forced to pay for healthcare that should be free as GPs opt out
Some clinics not accepting the gold card that entitles war veterans to free healthcare as rebates fail to keep up with cost of delivering careGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRoughly 90% of Dr Kerry Summerscales’…
‘Looming global health crisis’: urgent action needed to prevent spread of drug-resistant superbugs, CSIRO says
National science agency warns of a ‘post-antibiotic world’ in 2050, marked by declines in lifespan, quality of life and livestock productionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBetter coordination is urgently needed …
Ambulance call handlers in England tell of anguish over death risk to patients
Dispatchers tell investigation it is common to worry: ‘How many people are we going to kill today?’ Ambulance call handlers suffer anxiety about how many people will die before they can get help to them each day, researchers looking into the welfare of…
I investigated the origins of Covid for the UN – I believe the virus leaked from a Chinese lab & here is why
COVID likely leaked from a Wuhan lab following Frankenstein-style experiments on humanised mice, a top scientist has warned.
Professor Colin Butler, who probed the origins of the virus for the UN, said the lab leak theory has been majorly downplay…