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  • 5 days ago | abc.net.au | Elise Worthington

    The Australian health practitioner regulator has introduced sweeping new guidelines for dentists and nurses performing non-surgical cosmetic injectable procedures, in a bid to better protect the public from players putting profits ahead of patient safety. The new rules released by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) today mandate further education and training before healthcare practitioners can perform cosmetic procedures like botox and filler injections.

  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Elise Worthington

    Australians are being warned about gaining early access to their superannuation to pay for urgent medical and dental treatment after clinics run by a New South Wales company were placed into administration. It appears more than 400 patients have handed over more than 2 million dollars for treatment at one clinic with none of the promised treatment delivered. Some patients have drained their super announts and now have no teeth.

  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Celina Edmonds |Elise Worthington

    Patients across the country have been left with no teeth and drained superannuation accounts after clinics run by a NSW company were placed into administration. Dentists who worked for Supercare Dental and Cosmetics are now owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages and say the clinics were "predatory". The situation is part of a broader trend, with the number of patients withdrawing superannuation to pay for dental work more than tripling in three years.

  • 2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Elise Worthington

    Since medical cannabis was legalised in 2016 there's been an explosion in ITS USE fuelled by telehealth companies shipping their products to Australians with what some experts say is alarming ease. New figures show Australian doctors and nurse practitioners are writing an unprecedented number of scripts for high strength THC medical cannabis products- with some pumping out a script every 4 minutes.

  • 2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Elise Worthington |Emily Smith

    Australian medical practitioners are writing scripts for high-strength medicinal cannabis products with alarming speed, raising concerns some are putting "profit over patient safety", according to the regulator. Since medicinal cannabis was legalised in 2016, the industry has exploded, with cannabis telehealth clinics fuelling a rapid increase in prescriptions of products that contain THC, the psychoactive substance that causes a "high".

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Elise Worthington
Elise Worthington @elisereports
17 Sep 23

RT @thetimes: 🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults by women who have broken their silence on alleged att…

Elise Worthington
Elise Worthington @elisereports
13 Apr 23

Sad to see the last regional TV news bulletin being cut in SA. My first journalism job was in Port Lincoln as a VJ with Southern Cross: filming, writing & editing TWO TV packages a day. It was an amazing (& wildly stressful) experience I'm so grateful for https://t.co/DqOxFLupKs https://t.co/aPARo95d53

Elise Worthington
Elise Worthington @elisereports
28 Mar 23

RT @RetractionWatch: Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds. https://t.co/EtKxZJv8IY https://t.co/3IZla8VaJR