Rachel Rasker
Rachel Rasker is the health reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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The embarrassing health condition that stops people leaving the house
Jenny Greer is testing a world-first physiotherapy device to treat constipation in the hope of not scheduling her life around laxatives.
- Rachel Rasker
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Ready and waiting for a watch party: Young fans have solid advice for the Socceroos
Watching the World Cup on Sunday at 2pm? It’s a no-brainer for young Sydney players eager to cheer on the Aussie team. What about the 5am start next week? You bet!
- Rachel Rasker
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‘It just turned into havoc’: Woman in critical condition after shark attack at Coogee Beach
Witnesses have described the terrifying scene when a woman was bitten by a three-metre shark at the popular eastern suburbs beach.
- Julie Power, Jessica McSweeney, Kate Aubusson and Rachel Rasker
The billion-dollar Sydney hospital that’s performing worse than ever
Wait times at Westmead have doubled in a decade as more than one in 10 patients spend almost 22 hours in the emergency department.
- Rachel Rasker
Sai made an impossible choice about his health. Now he’s afraid to sleep at night
After Sai Akunuri bought his first family home, he was faced with a hard decision: Keep his life-saving diabetes device, or pay his mortgage.
- Rachel Rasker
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- Doctors at work
Emergency doctors are ‘begging for beds’ and planning to quit
Patients are not receiving the best care because “we don’t have the space”, the emergency doctors’ college warns.
- Rachel Rasker
Inside Sydney’s future-proof quarantine centre
With separate plumbing and high-tech sanitisation, Westmead’s biocontainment centre was built to spare us from Ebola and hantavirus.
- Rachel Rasker
College president farewelled, pausing medical body dispute
Under normal circumstances, Friday’s meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians would be a handover of power between the president and the president-elect. But neither was present in an official capacity.
- Rachel Rasker
The NSW aged care home charging residents $15 to watch volunteer musicians
The way additional services are calculated in aged care is under scrutiny, as the minister says charging for volunteer performances “clearly falls short”.
- Rachel Rasker
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The innovative program that helped this couple beat cancer
“Prehabilitation” rebuilds strength in cancer patients before they face surgery, to help speed up their recovery.
- Rachel Rasker