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More people have died from COVID-19 in the council areas of Brimbank and Darebin in the first four months of 2022 than the entire previous year.
Coronavirus pandemic

You’re more likely to die from COVID-19 if you live in these areas

The council area of Brimbank in Melbourne’s west has had the highest number of COVID deaths in Victoria in the first four months of the year, more than its death toll for all of 2021.

  • by Chloe Booker
Uzes Beaton had been diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression after trying several anti-depressants.
Mental health

‘It’s scary, the thought of not having access’: New anti-depressant considered for PBS

Esketamine nasal spray was approved by Australia’s medical regulator last year, but without a PBS listing it will cost patients more than $3000 for an eight-week course.

  • by Mary Ward
Peter Riley at home in Razorback with his grandchildren, Samson, 1, Noah, 3, and Abigail, 5, and family dog Atticus earlier this year, before his move into palliative care.
Health

‘It’s not as rare as we think’: Call to explore pollution link to devastating disease

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Coronavirus pandemic

People dying of COVID while life-saving drugs go unused, doctors say

  • by Lucy Carroll
First year University of Sydney student, Aishe Ghazzaoui, in Sydney.
Education

‘Constantly lost’: Year 12 students increasingly worried about mental health

  • by Daniella White
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