The Age
February 11, 2006

Given the stark statistics - and the human pain behind these numbers - there can be little doubt that improving mental health services must be a priority for Australian governments, both state and federal. In the past financial year, psychological problems accounted for almost 11 per cent of all cases managed by GPs throughout the country, one in 25 visits to hospital emergency departments was by a mental health patient, and 20 per cent of children lived with at least one parent who suffered from a metal illness. In addition, there was a 20 per cent rise in the number of prisoners referred for psychiatric care and most of these suffered from schizophrenia.

The AGE
February 2, 2006

Danish blood samples which have been frozen for decades may hold the key to confirming Australian research suggesting vitamin D deficiency at conception and during pregnancy is linked to schizophrenia.

By Andrea Petrie
November 8, 2005
The Age

DOCTORS will have to wait until the end of the week to determine the success of surgery to reattach a toddler's left leg, which was severed in an early morning axe attack.

Michelle Pountney and Anthony Dowsley
08 Nov 05
Herald Sun

SURGEONS have reattached the leg of a toddler after it was severed below the knee in an axe attack. A team of 13 medical experts, including six surgeons, at the Royal Children's Hospital operated for more than 8 1/2 hours to attach the limb.