A surgeon who performed “potentially inaccurate” colonoscopies in the NSW-Victorian border region of Albury-Wodonga has been temporarily banned from practising. Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt remains registered…
The legal ban on Victorian doctors initiating conversations about voluntary euthanasia will be reviewed amid concerns the so-called ‘gag law’ is creating a two-tier system. Victoria was the first state to legalise voluntary…
Fewer Victorians were diagnosed with cancer in the past year owing to the COVID-19 pandemic impact on screening, a report shows. The latest Cancer in…
The Victorian Government has pledged to launch its own pharmacy prescribing trial if re-elected on Saturday, with taxpayers funding hundreds of thousands of $20 pharmacist…
A coroner has highlighted poor communication between a specialist mental health service and patient’s GP in the months before she killed herself and her three…
A necrotising skin disease found in pockets of Australia has puzzled scientists for decades, and while the diagnostics and treatment for Buruli ulcer are clear-cut…
GPs are being alerted to a spike in cases of the necrotising skin disease Buruli ulcer, which is now spreading geographically beyond traditionally endemic areas.…
When duty of candour laws are introduced in Victoria next month, public and private hospitals will be required to apologise to anyone seriously harmed while…
Two state governments are allowing pharmacists to administer herpes zoster vaccines, including the live-attenuated vaccine that has been linked with the deaths of three patients with…
A coroner has blamed access block in a Victorian hospital for the potentially preventable death of a patient who died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm.…
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