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  • From left to right: resigning psychiatrist Dr Christina Matthews, chair of the NSW branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Dr Pramudie Gunaratne and resigning psychiatrist Dr Anu Kataria

    Wards in NSW’s largest psychiatric hospital close as mass resignations begin

    Doctor calls situation ‘an absolute disaster’ for public mental health system and vulnerable patients
  • Sydney rock oyster

    Australian oysters’ blood could hold key to fighting drug-resistant superbugs, researchers find

  • Members of the doctors' union rally in Sydney

    NSW government in 11th-hour bid to postpone mass resignation of psychiatrists

  • A placard is seen during a rally in Sydney on Sunday ahead of a planned ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

    Thousands attend pro-Palestine rallies in Australian cities ahead of hoped-for ceasefire

  • Veronica Stephan-Miller

    Melbourne woman’s fight to keep NDIS support raises legal questions about agency’s ‘troubling’ processes

  • North Shore Private Hospital, a facility owned by Ramsay Hea<br>AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 27: North Shore Private Hospital, a facility owned by Ramsay Health Care Ltd., stands in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. Ramsay Health Care Ltd., Australia's biggest private hospital provider, said full-year profit rose 35 percent. (Photo by Jeremy Piper/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    NSW government asks private sector to take public hospital patients as hundreds of psychiatrists set to resign

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Key issues

  • Illustrations of capsules in the shape of a brain

    ‘A pill for every ill’: doctors say Australia overprescribing antidepressants to mask toxic social conditions

  • An illustration of a person climbing a hill of pills towards a light at the top

    We asked readers about taking antidepressants. The response points to a ‘silent epidemic’ and urgent need for reform

    Out of 776 responders to our callout, 711 say they experienced withdrawal symptoms, many debilitating
  • Pokies machines

    ‘I had a full-blown relapse’: woman allowed into Victorian pokies clubs despite self-excluding from gambling

    Bree Hughes says state’s safeguards to curb gambling are a ‘joke’ after she realised very few venues checked if she was on the self-excluding list
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Antiviral

  • Composite for Antiviral column - retinol and anti-ageing skincare

    Antiviral
    Can retinol, vitamin A or other compounds really keep your skin healthy and ‘youthful’?

    Melissa Davey
    The ads are everywhere but the evidence is poor for most creams, experts say – with one limited exception
  • The composite shows varied multivitamins and supplements.

    Antiviral
    Multivitamins promise glowing skin, better sleep and a longer life. But who do supplements really benefit?

    Donna Lu
  • Composite image for Antiviral column. The image shows orange and green squar pollen, a honey pot and an inhaler

    There’s a buzz online about local honey being the ‘ultimate hay fever hack’ – but does it actually help?

    Melissa Davey
  • Composite for Antiviral. The image shows orange and green squares, with a person squeezing sunscreen out of a tube

    Antiviral
    The sunscreen myth: could it really be causing skin cancer?

    Melissa Davey
  • 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
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Opinion

  • Woman sitting on a swing, holding the empty swing next to her

    From carer to carefree? How to move on from years of devotion after a loved one dies

    Gaynor Parkin
  • Dr James Leeder, a psychiatry registrar in North Sydney, his wife Abigail Leeder and their daughter, Matilda

    NSW psychiatrists threatening to resign say it’s not about money - it’s about the ‘collapse’ of the system

    • Composite image of Isabella Lee in multiple places at once at home

      66 days to rediscover boredom: ‘The way I’d been thinking about time was wrong’

    • ‘We’ve been doing our bit tirelessly – while desperately waiting for the government to do theirs.’

      NSW’s mental health system is on its knees. Here is why psychiatrists like me have resigned

      Prachi Brahmbhatt
    • Jackson Ryan surrounded by cans of Pepsi Max

      66 days to quit Pepsi Max: ‘Of course, there is a lot of misery’

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Science

  • Queen Elizabeth II (left) in EastEnders’ Queen Vic pub in 2001 with Barbara Windsor (right) and Steve McFadden.

    Cockney influences found in Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, says expert

    Linguistics professor says London dialect is most likely to be spoken in Essex, but aspects have traversed the globe
  • The aurora Australis seen in Tasmania on 1 January

    Spectacular aurora australis thrills sky gazers across south-east Australia

  • Ozempic and Wegovy packets

    Weight-loss drugs can improve kidney health, study finds

  • Australia’s coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as declared, report warns

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

  • Stunning microscopic worlds captured in video competition – video

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

  • 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

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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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