Brendan Kearns

1 week ago | news.com.au | Brendan Kearns |Emma Kirk |Duncan Evans

Australia’s medicines watchdog has confirmed it will investigate a report claiming several sunscreens did not offer the sun protection they advertised. Consumer group CHOICE delivered the report last week, claiming it had tested 20 popular SPF50 and SPF50+ sunscreens and found 16 of them fell short of the protection they advertised. SPF stands for “sun protection factor” and is the measure of how well the sunscreen protects a user from the sun’s UV rays.

2 weeks ago | perthnow.com.au | Duncan Evans |Brendan Kearns

Former Australian Olympian and Labor Senator Nova Peris and media personality Erin Molan are both trapped in Israel as Iranian rockets rain down on the Jewish state. The pair, posting to X, are both in Tel Aviv, which has been hit by bombs and rockets in the past 24 hours. “The past 24 hours have been deeply confronting,” Ms Peris said. “We spent the early hours of yesterday in a bomb shelter, and much of today there too. “The last four to five hours have been extremely frightening and distressing.

2 weeks ago | thewest.com.au | Duncan Evans |Brendan Kearns

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Brendan Kearns |Ally Feiam

Sydneysiders are being urged to check their tickets after one lucky person won Powerball’s entire $100m jackpot. The search is on for the winner, who purchased an unregistered ticket in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and held the only winning division one entry in Thursday night’s draw. The winning numbers for the draw were 28, 10, 3, 16, 31, 14, 21 and the Powerball number 6. The lucky winner now shares the title of Australia’s third-biggest lottery winner ever.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Duncan Evans |Blair Jackson |Brendan Kearns

Fertility treatment company Monash IVF has admitted to a second IVF mistake, again putting the wrong embryo into a patient. The latest incident happened on June 5 at the company’s Clayton clinic in Melbourne’s southeast. “A patient’s own embryo was incorrectly transferred to that patient, contrary to the treatment plan which designated the transfer of an embryo of the patient’s partner,” Monash IVF said in a statement to the ASX on Tuesday.