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Vials of replica weight loss drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro are being illegally shipped across the world from a house on the outskirts of Sydney. 
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British long COVID sufferers are paying more than £40,000 ($70,000) to travel overseas and have their blood “washed”, despite no evidence the practice is helpful.
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Email accounts for 15 Northern Territory Primary Health Network (NT PHN) employees have been compromised in a phishing attack that first occurred last October but was only discovered last week. The PHN says no sensitive personal information was breached, with the scammers targeting a number of the organisation's debtors with an email falsely claiming the PHN's bank details had changed.
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Even though we are now well into the 21st century, the western world is experiencing a phenomenal growth in the use of ‘Alternative Medicine’ (AltMed). Despite the lack of evidence, many educated, middle-class people are turning their backs on proven treatments, sometimes paying the ultimate price. In this most scientific of ages, why is this happening?
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The focus of heightened scrutiny following the Medibank hack, health service providers informed the privacy commissioner of 79 data breaches in the first half of this year alone.
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The narratives and tactics Trump used to persuade people to trust him as a sole beacon of truth—amid a sea of corrupt, lying scientists and doctors—draw on those of cult leaders, self-proclaimed healers, and wellness charlatans as much as those of authoritarian demagogues. They have proved effective over centuries. In 1927, the British physician A. J. Clark lamented the proliferation of “quackery” in the medical profession. The term was once simply synonymous with fraud. “The fact that this term has come to signify, in popular usage, a pretender to medical knowledge indicates very clearly that there is something about the cure of disease that particularly attracts both delusion and imposture,” Clark wrote. That is, when we are sick or threatened by disease, we seem to be uniquely susceptible to scams.
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One patient died, while another was charged a large sum of money for a procedure with no proper therapeutic basis, the tribunal found
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