Melissa Cunningham

A doula present at the free birth of Victorian wellness influencer Stacey Warnecke said she did not believe it was her legal obligation to call an ambulance as the new mother lay dying, or to make childbirth safer for women.

A Victorian doula has told the Coroners Court she initially believed Stacey Warnecke was having a panic attack as she lay dying.

Experts warn chronic reliance on some medications is leading to severe and dangerous side effects.

A national crackdown on the harmful overprescribing of medications will see thousands of healthcare workers push to wean Australians off unnecessary drugs, including sleeping tablets and opioids.

Ric Perna spent years at a factory making cancer-detection machines, unaware that a toxic workplace chemical was causing a terminal blood cancer to develop in his own body.

Professor Michael Dooley is no stranger to death and human suffering. The clinical pharmacist has spent years working in hospitals and helping to provide care and medication to the terminally ill.

Michael Dooley has spent years of his career working in hospitals. But he says his work in the state’s voluntary assisted dying scheme has changed him.