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Wakefield expands

Parents win fight to sterilise daughter

The Family Court in Queensland has authorised the parents of a profoundly disabled girl to give their daughter a hysterectomy.

Reynolds on the mend

Worry over maternity provider's death rate

Doctor 'missed' man's fractured skull, court told

Double trouble for IVF mums

Woman's quick thinking saves her best friend's life

Pair brain-damaged in Lion Rock fall had been drinking

Two men who suffered brain injuries after falling 60m from Lion Rock had been drinking alcohol, police say.

Chain reaction of revisionism

Boy, 4, impaled on knife in dishwasher

A four-year-old was hospitalised in Melbourne yesterday after falling onto a knife left in an open dishwasher.

Blood test delay at fault for death - HDC

Super-clinics plan in big health shake-up

Primary health services are set to undergo a big shake-up with some hospital services shifting into the community to create new super-clinics.

Toys make surgery bearable

'My KFC days are finished'

Scottish hospitals take up NZ software

Patient found under resident's walking frame before death

Rest-home nurses who rushed to an 82-year-old patient's scream found her on the floor with another patient's walking frame on top of her.