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Penny was left traumatised after her pain was repeatedly dismissed as ordinary reproductive symptoms.

Penny was told her agonising pain was just ovulation. The next day, she was begging to die

The case is one of more than 400 accounts submitted to this masthead’s medical misogyny investigation in which women and girls had their pain dismissed, minimised or declared imaginary.

  • Aisha Dow and Kate Aubusson

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Dr Munjed Al Muderis.

Disgraced doctor Munjed Al Muderis launches Nine defamation appeal

The lawyer for the orthopaedic surgeon argues the original finding of negligence was not available to the court judge in an appeal that is set to run for a fortnight.

  • Christine Lacy
Cheryl Priest was diagnosed with pancreatic and lung cancer in 2021. She wonders if she would have been diagnosed earlier if she hadn’t skipped routine blood checks.

During COVID, Cheryl skipped tests. Then a ‘fake tan’ comment forced her to the GP

Oncologists are warning of waves of recurrent cancers due to later-stage diagnoses following the pandemic.

  • Henrietta Cook and Melissa Cunningham
When the result is positive for the patient, it “can make it all worthwhile”.

Wonder why emergency doctors are quitting? Spend a day in my shoes

It’s a privilege to care for patients and families during their hardest moments. However, this can also come at a real cost to doctors like me.

  • Rachael Gill
Baby R, as the infant was referred to during the coronial inquest last year, died from perinatal hypoxia in August 2022, after he was delivered during an emergency caesarean at Bendigo Hospital.

Baby R died after a disastrous home birth. Coroner says midwives provided ‘deficient’ care

Two private midwives waited too long to transfer a mother to hospital in Bendigo, starving her newborn of oxygen and causing his death six days after an emergency caesarean.

  • Melissa Cunningham
Patients banned by Victorian hospitals are being ejected by security guards, leaving them untreated and out on the street.

Booted from hospital and dumped on the street: Patients on secret blacklist being refused treatment

Public hospitals are using exclusion notices to ban aggressive patients, which paramedics argue puts them and patients at risk.

  • Grant McArthur, Kieran Rooney and Henrietta Cook
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Australia has broadened access to medical abortion pills, but is yet to make contraceptive pills as easily available.

As a GP, I’m very worried about changes to how ‘the pill’ will be prescribed

Women in NSW will soon be able to receive the oral contraceptive pill from their pharmacist without seeing a doctor. But increased access should not come at the expense of quality.

  • Hayley Glasson
Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls received his flu vaccination on Tuesday before announcing an expansion of the state’s needle-free flu mist program.

Young ‘superspreaders’ targeted in bid to avoid repeat of deadly flu season

The state hopes an expansion of its nasal spray flu vaccine program will encourage more people to get inoculated following last year’s horror flu season.

  • Courtney Kruk
Victorians are landing in emergency departments after suffering severe side effects linked to illegal peptide use.

Amputations, heart attacks, days of vomiting: The horror toll of ‘backyard’ peptides

Victorians are taking peptides for everything from weight loss and body building to skin improvements. Many end up in hospitals with severe side effects.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Henrietta Cook
“I have seen the devastating impact of this disease firsthand”. Wayne Swan at his Brisbane home.

‘For me, it’s personal’. Wayne Swan on the fight against our most common cancer

Almost 4000 men lose their lives to prostate cancer each year. A new initiative may help arrest this crisis.

  • Wayne Swan