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Dim light, failing sight: Behind this classic sign of middle-age
The menu looks foggy. The tiny instructions are a blur. It’s that time when your vision, a marvel of evolution, needs some help sharpening up. What’s going on in the eye itself? And what else could possibly go wrong?
- by Jackson Graham
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When Ollie took a pill, he didn’t realise it would be a ‘never-ending trip’
From medical trials to magic mushrooms, psychedelics are back in the spotlight. But for those with the little-known condition HPPD, the side effects never end.
- by Tim Elliott
Hunter had friends and a busy job. He still felt something was missing
It’s been described as a “silent epidemic”; now a NSW parliamentary inquiry will shine a spotlight on the distress triggered by a lack of social connection.
- by Megan Gorrey
Why it seems like every NSW school has a case of whooping cough
Infections of a disease that can be life-threatening for babies has spiked among school-aged children the end of the holidays.
- by Michael Ruffles
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Healthcare
Hunger Games hospitals: Victoria’s radical health shake-up sparks fears
Victoria’s health system is ‘no longer fit for purpose’, as the government announces an overhaul that will avoid mergers but centralise staff and services.
- by Rachel Eddie, Broede Carmody, Jewel Topsfield and Kieran Rooney
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Women's health
The doctor who took on Goop and the biggest threat to women’s health
Seven years after gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter wrote a seething open letter to Gwyneth Paltrow, women are still being bombarded with misinformation about their own bodies.
- by Kate Aubusson
Opinion
Illness
Why I hang around public toilets watching what you do with your hands
I do not miss COVID-19 lockdowns, apart from the way people behaved about matters of personal hygiene.
- by Jenna Price
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Illness
The four NSW hospitals grappling with skin disease outbreak
People potentially at risk of an outbreak of scabies which has broken out across multiple hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven area are being traced.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Illness
Cooling tower that caused deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak found
A Laverton North cooling tower has been identified as the likely source of the state’s worst Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in more than two decades.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Henrietta Cook
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Babies
The one thing mothers can donate to help save premature babies’ lives
Just seven mothers are booked in to donate breast milk used to protect premature babies from deadly infections, with high rates of cold and flu almost wiping out the regular donor base.
- by Kate Aubusson
The Sydney clinic barred from treating patients
The state’s healthcare watchdog is cracking down on alternative clinics offering a controversial medical procedure banned by regulators in the United States.
- by Angus Thomson