Natasha Robinson

Hospital and health district executives allegedly “turned a blind eye” to misconduct, questionable clinical practice based on “beliefs” and shockingly poor leadership at Queensland’s Heart Transplant Service that may have led to patients eligible for transplant losing their lives to heart failure, with conflict among specialists coming close to physical violence in wards.

Zoe Wilson thought she may be at risk. It wasn’t just a vague gut feeling: the risk was demonstrable and clear, running through three generations of her family. The 30-year-old social worker was only 12 when her mother died of breast cancer. On her mother’s side of the family, about four of her grandmother’s sisters had also had breast cancer. Several had died of the disease.

Krystal Barter is calm as the mask that will deliver anaesthetic gas into her body is placed gently over her face. The 41-year-old has been here before. Fifteen years ago, it was her breasts she said goodbye to, this time it is her one remaining ovary.

Anxiety and depression can be crippling for students. Here’s how Portage schools are addressing it.

China funds thousands of scholarships for African students to come to China, so they can tell “A good China story.” They are leaving China with a worse impression of the country than when they arrived. Is this soft power backfiring?

Here’s how South Africa, Germany, and Canada face their most shameful chapters.

A combination of very generous scholarships, increased difficulties in getting accepted to the US and Europe and opportunities to publish in high ranking journals are attracting Ghanaian students.