Medicine
‘Orphaned inventions’: Life-saving AI discoveries trapped in legal black hole
The law insists inventors have to be human. But that means we’re missing out on groundbreaking medicine and technology developed by AI.
- by Angus Dalton
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‘We had a sixth person in our house’: Skeletons in the closet haunt doctors
Human bones are stored in boxes in thousands of people’s homes, with no sign of whom they belonged to or when and where they were seized.
- by Timna Jacks
Explainer
Monkeypox
What is monkeypox and should we be worried?
Monkeypox has been recorded in Australia for the first time. What is it?
- by Sherryn Groch
Explainer
Coronavirus pandemic
We’re now in the ‘age of pandemics’. Can we stop the next one?
What needs to happen to avert another virus-borne global tragedy? We ask the scientist who helped discover Ebola, a Nobel laureate, and the man who first published COVID-19’s genetic code.
- by Sherryn Groch
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Coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19 program set up in wake of tower lockdowns scrapped
Community health workers say the move comes at a “terrible time” and people in public housing and other “high-risk” accommodation still need assistance to connect them with essential services.
- by Aisha Dow
Unprecedented $4.5 billion boost for NSW hospitals, health services
The Perrottet government will recruit more than 10,000 nurses, midwives and doctors to the state’s hospitals and health services
- by Lucy Cormack
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Good Weekend
‘Oh, my god! What’s that?’: My life as a midwife in South Sudan
Anna Kent swapped a comfortable life in England to work in Central Africa. Here, she tells of the day a teenager’s dramatic labour changed her life.
- by Anna Kent
Labor offers shot in the arm to medical manufacturing
More vaccines, medical implants and medicines could be made in Australia with support from a $1.5 billion fund Labor is proposing to set up.
- by Katina Curtis
Analysis
Hospitals
Things could get worse in Victoria’s emergency departments before they get better
A Victorian mother has praised a nurse who worked overtime to see her sick daughter. But for how much longer can the hospital system rely on the goodwill and dedication of exhausted healthcare workers?
- by Aisha Dow and Melissa Cunningham
Inquiry condemns NSW Health as hospital staff live with a ‘culture of fear’
The regional hospitals inquiry, sparked by a Herald investigation, raised disturbing allegations of treatment of whistleblowers and cover-ups of patient deaths.
- by Carrie Fellner and Lucy Carroll
‘Wholly inadequate’: Report lashes patient accommodation subsidy scheme
Patient Chris Newman, from Coolah in NSW, said the subsidy would make little difference if he had to stay in a commercial motel.
- by Lucy Cormack