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Public hospitals should not be able to “opt out of” providing abortions, according to the Greens MP Dr Amanda Cohn, who said despite abortion being decriminalised in New South Wales five years ago “far too little has changed”.

Her comments came in response to data

published by …

Good morning. In October 2021, a boat carrying dozens of Tamils trying to find their way to Canada sprung a leak. They were rescued by the British navy and brought to Diego Garcia, a tropical island in the middle of the Indian Ocean that was under the control of the …

Satellite images have laid bare the scale of the damage to the Mayotte archipelago after

cyclone Chido made landfall

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people are feared dead in the French Indian Ocean territory after its worst cyclone in nearly a century. French President Emmanuel Macron …

Rugby league players have declared the training field to be the next battleground with the NRL in a bid to protect brain health, after a survey found almost half of women’s players continued to train after experiencing a suspected concussion.

Brain injury research has identified not only concussions as a …

The government claims that there are too many civil servants (

Ministers planning to cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs, 11 December

Lucy Letby’s lawyer has announced he is seeking to reopen her appeal because the prosecution’s lead medical expert witness, Dr Dewi Evans, has changed his mind on some key evidence.

At a press conference held at the Royal Society of Medicine on Monday, Mark McDonald said Evans was not a …

It is a little blue pill that has transformed male health and the sex lives of millions.

But while Viagra’s success has made the erectile dysfunction drug famous, a less conspicuous form could soon become available.

The US company Viatris has created a new version of Viagra: a wafer-like film …

Ireland’s position on the war in Gaza “should not be seen as a hostile act”, the Irish deputy prime minister, Micheál Martin, has saidafter Israel decided to close its embassy in Dublin.

Israel

ordered the closure on Sunday,

The worst cyclone to hit Mayotte for 90 years has devastated the French Indian Ocean territory’s health services, leaving the hospital severely damaged and health centres out of operation, a minister has said.

“The hospital has suffered major water damage and destruction, notably in the surgical, intensive care, maternity and …

Voters have broadly accepted that the £40bn in tax rises in Rachel Reeves’s first budget are “necessary” to improve public services, despite the majority expecting to be worse off as a result, according toresearch.

The chancellor announced in October

a package of tax increases