Health
Terminally ill former paramedic Sandra Sarantou is pleading with the Prime Minister to reform federal laws that block rural Australians from accessing voluntary assisted dying via telehealth.
More than 20 priority emergency patients were left stranded in South Australia as 56 ambulances were gridlocked outside Adelaide hospitals, prompting urgent calls to extend the state's healthcare emergency declaration.
Armed with newly uncovered cabinet documents, survivors of Australia's tainted blood scandal are demanding a formal inquiry and compensation. Between the 1970s and 1990s, up to 20,000 Australians were infected with hepatitis C or HIV through contaminated medical products.
South Australian health experts are warning of a delayed flu peak after an unusually quiet winter. Doctors are urging residents to get vaccinated late in the season while calling for expanded access to free RSV vaccines.
A severe shortage of specialist stoma nurses in South Australia's South East is forcing vulnerable regional patients to travel to Adelaide for essential medical care. Local advocates and politicians are calling for urgent systemic reforms to address the critical gap in regional healthcare.
South Australia has emerged as the unexpected epicentre of the highly infectious H5 bird flu strain in Australia, raising alarm bells for native wildlife. As biosecurity measures tighten, environmental scientists warn the virus could soon travel inland via local waterways.
The privacy investigation surrounding Adelaide Crows legend Tony Modra's medical records has widened, with SA Health confirming a ninth staff member is now under investigation. The AFL icon was hospitalized in June following a serious truck crash on the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Authorities have confirmed the nation's first mass wildlife mortality event linked to the deadly H5 bird flu after scores of seabirds died off the South Australian coast. Biosecurity officials are bracing for further spread across native species as migratory seasons approach.
The state's nursing union has called for an urgent safety investigation into the routine placement of patients in hospital corridors during high-demand periods. While health officials defend the strategy as a coronial recommendation to ease ambulance ramping, opposition leaders and patient advocate groups are demanding an immediate end to the practice.
Wildlife experts and community members are sounding the alarm after dozens of dead and sick birds were discovered off South Australia's coast, marking a worrying shift in the spread of H5 bird flu. Authorities confirm that local transmission among native species is now underway as national case numbers rise.
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking laser-based system capable of identifying toxic methanol inside sealed beverage bottles. This life-saving technology could soon be deployed in handheld devices at bars, distilleries, and border checkpoints worldwide.