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  • Participants at a pro-choice rally in Brisbane on 27 September

    Crisafulli under pressure as second LNP MP foreshadows winding back Queensland abortion rights

    Exclusive: Retiring rightwinger Mark Robinson tells Christian podcast he expects ‘corrections that will happen over time’
  • A grandmother holds her granddaughter in the Northern Territory, Australia

    Skin checks helped reduce infections in Aboriginal children by half, study finds

  • Prof Matthew Bailes

    Australian astrophysicist’s $250,000 prize for field-changing discovery a ‘nice surprise’

  • Signage outside the county court of Victoria

    ‘Urgent’ action needed after Melbourne woman’s near decade in solitary confinement in mental health facility, judge says

  • Mpox blisters on a hand

    NSW records largest mpox outbreak and urges vaccination due to rising hospitalisations

  • Greens leader Adam Bandt

    Greens reveal plan for 1,000 new health clinics with free medical and dental care across Australia

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Key issues

  • Sue Duncombe

    Crime and nourishment: the Koori court giving help and hope to traumatised kids

  • A composite image in two parts. On the left is a dark background with woman walking, her clothes are covered in squiggles. On the right she is walking into a bright field of flowers

    Agony and the urge to pee: the growing evidence giving hope to chronic UTI sufferers

    An Australian discovery has added weight to a long-held theory about the painful condition – but relief for most patients is still elusive
  • Clinical research to develop a possible cure for Alzheimers and dementia in the lab

    Alzheimer’s ‘breakthrough’ stalls: why a much-hyped drug is facing approval delays

    The benefits of drugs such as donanemab, aducanumab and lecanemab are proving harder to quantify than potential harms, experts say
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Antiviral

  • Composite for Melissa Davey's fortnightly column.

    Reader callout
    Antiviral: Guardian Australia’s new health column helps you determine science from snake oil

    Melissa Davey
    From serious questions to the more silly ones, this is a place where people can feel safe to ask questions about health and wellness news

Opinion

  • Ranjana Srivastava

    When is it time for an older doctor to hang up their stethoscope? We owe it to our patients to get it right

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Senior couple walking in nature

    I know there will come a time when my wife no longer recognises me. But for now, we both feel blessed

    Steven Herrick
    • Leah Sheppard

      Struggling after a crisis, the shame of financial distress pushed Leah over the edge

    • 3D panoramic X-ray of an adult male's teeth

      Tara lost her teeth ‘one by one’ and can barely eat. She’s not alone, an Australian dental study says

    • Woman burying face in pillow on bed sitting against wall

      I have made the near-impossible choice to terminate a pregnancy. Shaming women for it is cruel

      Ruth Milne
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Science

  • Stunning microscopic worlds captured in video competition – video

    The winners of the Nikon Small World in Motion video competition have been announced, with zoologist Dr Bruno Vellutini's video showing the processes of fly embryogenesis taking first prize
  • People watch a full moon rising near Sydney, Australia in 2016.

    September Supermoon: the best place and time to see tonight’s bigger and brighter full moon

  • People standing in a circle holding their mobile phones

    Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds

  • Patients seriously affected by flu or Covid may have high levels of crucial enzyme, research finds

  • ‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

  • Modern-day dingoes already established across Australia thousands of years ago, research finds

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’: rare chance to see explosion on dwarf star 3,000 light years away

  • ‘Enormously exciting’ fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’

  • Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video

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Multimedia

  • How office buildings, factories and shopping centres can cause legionnaires' outbreaks – video

  • The Covid-19 Omicron variant’s increased transmissibility has prompted the question: should you consider switching your reusable mask for a respirator instead?

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    What face mask should you wear during the Omicron outbreak: N95, KF94, cloth, P2? – video explainer

    The Covid-19 Omicron variant’s increased transmissibility has prompted the question: should you consider switching your reusable mask for a respirator instead?
  • School teacher Dr Malcolm Binns holds a small jar of the compound of an anti-parasitic medicine used to treat malaria, called Daraprim, which was partly made by his students in a lab at Sydney Grammar School in Sydney, Australia December 2, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray

    Australian students describe how they made copycat Malaria drug – video

    Students from Sydney grammar school describe how they created a version of Daraprim, a drug used to treat malaria, in a school laboratory

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