GP clinic closures
The RACGP has revealed that more than 60 GP practices have closed across Australia since 2019. Read More...
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Medicare leaking $3 billion
Dr Pradeep Philip’s independent review of Medicare has backed some of the ABC’s 7.30 doctor rort claims based on Dr Margaret Faux’s research, while also defending some GP practices. Read More...
A helping hand for Ukraine
A small Perth-based telehealth company has been playing an unlikely role in humanitarian efforts to link displaced Ukrainians with doctors around the world, as Cathy O’Leary explains. Read More...
Tucking into plastic surgery
Working in both emergency and aesthetic plastic surgery has given Dr Anh Nguyen balance and insight into the prejudices against the latter type of work. Read More...
Gene therapy changes the conversation
The advent of gene therapy to treat spinal muscular atrophy is a major milestone with the potential to revolutionise treatment for some rare neurological conditions. Read More...
A healthy garden
There is a reasonable body of research showing that having time in nature, be it a park, bushland or even the beach, is good for our physical and mental health. On a small scale, being in the garden can also be soothing. Read More...
Nursing a funny bone
It was orthopaedics pitted against heart and cancer survivors – with the addition of women’s teams for the first time – when hockey players from all walks of life competed in Perth at the end of last year. Read More...
Sandalford – history and innovation in a glass
n 1840 John Septimus Roe, Western Australia’s first Surveyor General was granted by Queen Victoria 4,000 acres of riverbank land at West Swan. He named it Sandalford after a priory in his English home at Berkshire. The property was well managed and became prosperous as an agrarian estate supporting crops, cattle, fruit and vegetables and vines for table grapes, sultanas, raisins, currants and wine grapes. Early varieties planted were Shiraz, Verdelho, Cabernet Sauvignon and Frontignac. Read More...