8+ hour, 44+ min ago   (443+ words) A plastic surgeon has been reprimanded for a problematic major abdominal procedure on a patient who subsequently suffered severe complications and required 12 follow-up surgeries and skin grafts. The Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (TASCAT) recently found Dr Gary Kode guilty…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (439+ words) A busy hospital emergency department is getting a $14.5 million redevelopment aimed at improving access, services and safety. Tasmanian company Vos Construction and Joinery was awarded the contract for the works at the North West Regional Hospital, in Burnie. Works have…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (489+ words) "Reach out and talk to your loved ones" is the message one mother wants to emphasise after the death of her son. Readers are advised this story discusses suicide and may be distressing to some people. Jodie Edwards' son Meraki…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (386+ words) When Scott James was diagnosed with Berger disease (also known as IgA nephropathy) in 2012, he had lost 70 per cent of function in his kidneys. Fourteen years later, he describes himself as "absolutely incredible". Mr James was diagnosed with his kidney…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (741+ words) When Clodagh O'Neill turned 30, she knew with absolute clarity that she wanted to become a mother. As an asexual woman, she would be doing it on her own. What followed was a multiyear journey marked by careful financial planning, interstate…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (461+ words) Emma Bennett has a great imagination but has a harder time than others getting her ideas down in written word. Emma has dyslexia, a condition which, without early intervention, can erode confidence and affect learning. The 13-year-old Reece High School…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (454+ words) Nearly four years after his dismissal for refusing to comply with state COVID-19 vaccination mandates, a former Department of Health IT manager has lost his unfair dismissal claim. Radu Gheorghe Tudor, a former systems support manager for the department's eHealth…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) When Marion Barbari was told 20 years ago that she had Hepatitis C, she said it was "scary", despite her knowledge of it. While the stigma and discrimination remain, Ms Barbari said those diagnosed now have much better support than was…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (294+ words) Another 23 dead penguins have been found in the North-West, while confirmed bird flu deaths have increased. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania on August 21 said seven more positive detections of H5 bird flu had been recorded in the region,…...