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For more than five years, Marjorie “Mardi” Carter has relied on a feeding tube into her small bowel to receive all her nutrition, after treatment for oesophageal and breast cancer left her unable to eat and drink enough. 

Lee Elliott, winner of The Bachelorette 2016, is urging everyone to be careful with fire after seriously burning his hand on New Year's Eve. 

A new education program at Caulfield Community Health Service (CCHS) is empowering people who live with type 2 diabetes to better manage their condition.

Maggie was just 12 years old when she tried her first cigarette, and 14 when she took up smoking. It was a habit that would stay with her for decades.

Last year’s flu season was more severe than the 2009 swine flu outbreak and saw one in four ICU beds occupied by patients suffering severe complications from the flu, researchers at The Alfred have confirmed.

Roni Murphy won HESTA's Outstanding Graduate Award for developing a new record keeping system that improves the care experience of patients who have difficulty communicating.

A global study led by The Alfred has found giving patients more IV fluids during surgery can reduce the risk of kidney damage and wound infection post-surgery, solving a decades-old debate.

Teaching students about the consequences of risky behaviours is the focus of The Alfred’s Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program.

When Alfred ICU and hyperbaric nurse Natalie McGregor was diagnosed with cancer, she found out how hard it was to be a patient – it left her emotionally and physically drained.