Paige Cockburn
Digital Reporter and Producer at ABC News (Australia)
@abcnews health reporter. Views don't reflect my employer. 🌈
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Paige Cockburn
Australia is at the pointy end of a mental health crisis. Psychological stress is mounting, particularly among younger Australians. At the same time there's serious workforce crunches in mental health services. Now both Labor and the Coalition are promising improvements as part of their federal election campaigning. Since the budget last month Labor has been under pressure to do more for mental health and today they came out swinging, promising a $1 billion package if they're elected.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Paige Cockburn
Health practitioners will now have proven findings of sexual misconduct permanently listed on their public registration, giving patients the ability to make more informed choices about who they seek care from. Until now, a practitioner would only have active sanctions or suspensions listed on their registration and once any conditions were inactive, they would be removed from public view.
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4 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Elise Worthington |Paige Cockburn
Health departments around the country are warning Australians to be alert for symptoms of measles as concerns grow about a rise in cases amid declining vaccination rates. The NSW health department has issued a new warning after a returning traveller caught a flight, walked through Sydney airport and visited locations in the Central West region while infectious.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Elise Worthington |Paige Cockburn
Australia's first durable artificial heart implant has been a success after the recipient became the world's first person to be discharged from hospital with the high-tech device. During a six-hour operation in Sydney last November doctors implanted the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart, a mechanical blood pump made out of titanium, into a man who was experiencing severe heart failure.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Paige Cockburn |Amy E. Sheehan |Michael Atkin
Cyclone Alfred is set to make landfall on Saturday and will bring days of severe weather and potentially hundreds of thousands of insurance claims. When devastating floods smashed four states in 2022, many policyholders waited up to two years to have their claims resolved and many cases were "badly mishandled" by insurers, an inquiry found.
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