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• When Birth Doesn't Go to Plan: How Midwives Support Parents Through Disappointment and Grief 24-03-2026

  For many parents, pregnancy is accompanied by a mental picture of how birth will unfold. It might be a calm labour, minimal intervention, immediate skin-to-skin contact, or simply the hope of feeling involved and heard. When birth deviates from those

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• Skill Mix on the Maternity Ward: What Midwives Want Other Health Professionals to Understand 24-03-2026

  Modern maternity care is delivered by multidisciplinary teams working under pressure, within complex systems, and across shifting scopes of practice. While collaboration is essential to safe care, midwives often find that their role — and the f

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• Midwives and Moral Distress: Navigating Care When Systems Don't Align with Values 24-03-2026

  Midwifery is a profession built on advocacy, relational care, and respect for women’s autonomy. Midwives are trained to support families through pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period in ways that prioritise dignity, informed choice, and tr

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• Parkinson's action plan aims to brain growing disease 24-03-2026

  It's the world's fastest growing neurological disorder, but a landmark plan could help put Australia on the frontline in the battle against the disease. More than 200,000 Australians live with Parkinson's disease - more than breast can

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• Celosia Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 1b Clinical Trial of CTx1000 in Amyotrop 24-03-2026

  SYDNEY, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Celosia Therapeutics, an Australian biotech company developing advanced gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced dosing of the first participant in its Phase 1b KOANEWA trial evaluating CTx

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• Prestige Biopharma Announces Positive Topline Results from Comparative SAMSON-II Study for HD204, a 24-03-2026

  Primary endpoint of Overall Response Rate at Week 18 met, demonstrating clinical equivalence in patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer SINGAPORE, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Prestige Biopharma today announced positive to

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• Rural doctor missed vital call in Indigenous death 23-03-2026

  The family of a woman who died in an under-equipped rural clinic say her death is an example of the health inequities still experienced by Indigenous Australians. Warrimay woman Eve Brown died of shock on July 2, 2021, after an undiagnosed spleen

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• Multiple-birth parents tumble through cracks in support 23-03-2026

  Parents of twins, triplets and more are calling for extra support in the upcoming federal budget as they face increased financial and mental health burdens. Twin mum Elise Devenny says her experience of parenthood has been magical, but gruelling a

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• Growing obesity crisis tanking Aussie productivity 23-03-2026

  Australia is staring down a $90 billion-a-year obesity crisis by 2032 but spending below the OECD average on preventative health to tackle it. Two-thirds of those costs will be felt in days off work, premature death and other productivity losses,

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• Scottish MPs reject euthanasia bill for terminally ill 20-03-2026

  Scotland's Parliament has rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives. Members of the Edinburgh-based legislature voted 69 to 57 against a bill that

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