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She went for six months but stayed for 30 years: The Australian doctor who refused to go home

Helping women on the Thai-Myanmar border survive malaria and childbirth, Rose McGready has faced bullets, bombs and brutal funding cuts – but still finds hope.

  • Erin Handley

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The Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, which causes gonorrhea.

Drug-resistant ‘gonorrhoea superbugs’ are spreading across Sydney

Health authorities are growing concerned about the limited effectiveness of antibiotics to treat the common sexually transmitted infection.

  • Angus Thomson
Keen ocean swimmer Andrew Camfield battled stage 3 melanoma after spending his youth at the beach.

The 30 lifestyle factors linked to almost 40 per cent of all new cancer cases

Andrew Camfield rarely wore sunscreen growing up on Sydney’s beaches. After several cancer scares and years of treatment, this is what he does now.

  • Angus Thomson

The January 31 edition

The early-retirement trap: how to avoid ‘wet leaf syndrome’ | Martin Luther King III on the state of the US – and living your legacy | Stopping overthinking

The analgesic action of aspirin (right) is derived from salicin, found in willow bark (left), which has been used traditionally for thousands of years.

Trump has abandoned the WHO. Now India and China are moving in

At the World Health Organisation’s global summit in New Delhi last month, traditional medicine practitioners joined with scientists and government ministers.

  • Maeve Cullinan
Nipah is a zoonotic virus — meaning it can be transmitted from animals to humans.

What to know about the deadly Nipah virus as outbreak hits India

Airports in South-East Asia are on alert after an outbreak of the disease, which has a 40 to 70 per cent fatality rate.

  • Sammy Westfall
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Jagnoor Jagnoor talks with the Herald

The simple fix that is saving the lives of very young children from drowning

Jagnoor Jagnoor has been key to reducing drowning rates in parts of the world where shocking numbers of children die every year.

  • Julie Power
A new study has identified how many cases of bird flu would give way to an outbreak, if the virus mutated to spread between humans.

The number of infections that could make or break the next bird flu pandemic

There’s a specific number of cases that marks the point of no return, according to a new study. You can count them on your fingers.

  • Angus Dalton
Myanmar’s military killed and injured dozens of people in an airstrike on Mrauk U hospital in Rakhine state.

Junta airstrikes on Myanmar hospital kill at least 33

The hit could be the deadliest on a hospital in almost five years of Myanmar civil war.

  • Zach Hope
Li-Meng Yan and Ranawaka Perera at a friend’s wedding in April 2019.

The married scientists torn apart by a COVID bioweapon theory

In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the US, aided by allies of Donald Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of COVID-19. Her husband still can’t find her.

  • Katie J.M. Baker