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Experts sound alarm over mounting health problem: ‘It’s frightening me’

It’s been detected in breast milk and can even affect our reproductive system.

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Microplastics have been found in newborns and breast milk.

Brisbane one of the hardest places to find a bulk billing doctor

The majority of suburbs with GP clinics offer no bulk billing at all.

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Brisbane patients slugged with GP fees of more than $60 as bulk billing disappears.

Urgent warning as COVID makes nationwide comeback amid flu season

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NSW Health urges residents to get their COVID booster as cases continue to spread.

Warning over disease outbreak after three admitted to Sydney hospital

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A major health warning has been issued after three people were hospitalised with Legionnaires’ disease in NSW.

Severely ill Aussie kids forced overseas as state-of-the-art centre sits unused

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Adelaide’s state-of-the-art Australian Bragg Centre for Proton Therapy sits pretty much empty, and is likely to remain so for many years to come.

Baby of brain-dead woman kept alive under US abortion law delivered

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Adriana Smith, a brain-dead pregnant woman in the US who has been kept alive by ventilators under Georgia’s abortion law, is set to have her life support turned off following the delivery of her baby via emergency cesarean section.