Elise Worthington

3 weeks 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 month 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 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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".