The five words said by a doctor while standing over a woman’s hospital bed following surgery changed her life forever. Teresa Burbery, from Brisbane, had undergone a minor surgery in September 2021 after a bike accident left her in chronic pain. She’d been through multiple treatments to try and easeContinue Reading
Victorian public and community sector workers are now entitled to period and reproductive leave under a collective agreement minted on Tuesday. The state Treasurer signed the agreement after two weeks of enterprise bargaining with the Community and Public Sector Union through an independent bargaining facilitator. The four-year deal will extendContinue Reading
Aussie comedian Tanya Hennessy has just finished her sixth round of IVF, with the star revealing she has “almost nothing to show for it” and is “in the depth of infertility sadness”. Hennessy, 38, is shocked that she is still at this point. She’s heard people talk about IVF before,Continue Reading
“It’s like hot knives being driven through your stomach.” That is how Ella Collings describes the pain of endometriosis, a pain she has been experiencing since she was 12 years old when she got her first period. Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to that which normally lines theContinue Reading
Medicare is failing women and it’s About Bloody Time things changed. Around 1 million Aussies are suffering from endometriosis, a condition that causes chronic pain and infertility. There is no cure. The current Medicare system pays a very low rebate for gynaecological care, leaving women with two options: short consultsContinue Reading
Whenever Katie Griffin parks her car in a disabled spot, she already knows what some people around her are thinking. The 31-year-old suffers from multiple debilitating “invisible illnesses”, a term used to describe health conditions that may not be obvious to the naked eye, that impact every facet of herContinue Reading
A woman who suffered a traumatic birth has revealed how the experience led her to signing up to Miss Universe Australia. Emily Becca, 32, had a fraught pregnancy with her second child as she was told from the first scan her daughter was in the smallest two percentile. “I wasContinue Reading
Every six weeks, an army of about 30 plasma donors help Michael Klim get back on his feet. Their gift allows the swimming great to receive intravenous immunoglobulin infusions (IVIg) that slow the progression of the rare neurological disorder that causes his chronic pain, and threatens his ability to walkContinue Reading
The number of women being diagnosed with endometriosis in Australia is rising, new data shows. Endometriosis is a painful disease that occurs when tissue similar to that which lines the uterus grows outside the uterus – usually in areas like the ovaries and fallopian tubes as well as on organsContinue Reading
A NSW MP will make a push to allow medicinal cannabis users to drive with a certain level of the psychoactive drug in their system in a Bill set to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday. Legalise Cannabis Party MP Jeremy Buckingham lashed current laws as “unfair” and said medicinalContinue Reading