The bill could mean an additional 885 MS-2 Step prescribers to help women out of the maze of abrortion access in NSW.

NSW nurses and midwives to prescribe abortion drugs under new bill

Under the changes,nurses and midwives would be able to prescribe abortion medications,while doctors with a conscientious objection would be compelled to refer patients to other services.

  • Kate Aubusson

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Jamila Rizvi with son Rafi on the eve of her craniotomy in 2018.

Healthcare changes will shift the dial for women like me

Women’s health has long been a neglected area of public policy. There are hopeful signs that’s about to change.

  • Jamila Rizvi
The raft of health investments will give direct financial relief to at least half a million Australian women.

HRT,contraceptive pills to cost less in major women’s health pledge

It will also be cheaper for women to get long-acting contraceptives and menopause assessments,in a significant package that Labor says will save women thousands of dollars.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Victorian woman Suzanne Boatto,who was turned away from the emergency department after suffering a heart attack.

‘Like someone took a hot poker and stabbed it through my heart’:Women left behind by medical research

Australian medical research currently does not account for the needs of women,a scoping review from the Department of Health and Aged Care has found.

  • Emily Kaine
Yola Armstrong

Grown kids,ageing parents,demanding careers:Why ‘midlife collision’ is buffeting women

Women who are caught in the middle of caregiving responsibilities just when their careers are at their peak are handling responsibilities in all aspects of their lives.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Jean Hailes for Women’s Health chief executive,Sarah White,is among the Australian women’s health experts warning menopause influencers are making claims about the powers of novel hormone treatment that are not supported by data.

College of GPs pulls support from menopause event as experts criticise influencer claims

The college said the So Hot Right Now conference,where the headline speaker is high-profile British GP Louise Newson,was no longer deemed eligible to be credited as professional development for GPs.

  • Wendy Tuohy
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Accounts from women who responded to the federal government’s End Gender Bias survey.

‘I would need to meet your mother’:Doctors refuse women’s requests for sterilisation

The detailed findings of a landmark Australian survey into gender bias in healthcare has delivered more sobering news about women’s experiences with the medical system.

  • Aisha Dow

Wellness crazies are telling women to ditch the pill. It’s lunacy

Influencers are urging women to abandon hormonal contraceptives like the pill in favour of “period-tracking” apps. But it’s bad advice,unless you want to be pregnant.

  • Jenna Price
The Triple Zero call from Soli Adams’ birth on the side of the Princes Highway in 2021.

Anja gave birth on the side of the road. Listen to the triple-zero call

Maternity hospital closures are forcing labouring women to travel hundreds of kilometres across “maternity deserts” to give birth.

  • Kate Aubusson
Surgeons are seeing more injuries to women’s reproductive zones due to powerful water jets rupturing their perineum when they fall off the back of the vehicle.

The surge of horrific jet-ski injuries damaging women’s reproductive systems

Surgeons warn that there has been a rise in severe tears caused when passengers fall off the back of a jet-ski,prompting a call for people to wear protective wetsuit pants.

  • Wendy Tuohy