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Melissa Davey

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 15, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Guardian
Top 1K sites
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Jul 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Melissa Davey

    Researchers warn social media driving harmful misuse of Alzheimer’s blood tests (opens the original)

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    Exclusive: Alzheimer’s blood tests should not be used on their own and risk leading people to believe they are inevitably going to develop dementia Researchers have warned that social media may be misleading healthy people into taking Alzheimer’s blood tests, causing severe anxiety over biological markers that may never actually cause dementia. Blood-based biomarker tests, such as p-tau217 and p-tau181, detect biological signs of changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease, wh

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Melissa Davey

    Peptide user tore oesophagus after using counterfeit product, Australian regulator warns (opens the original)

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    TGA issues alert after person was hospitalised after believing they were taking experimental weight loss drug retatrutide Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A patient who tore their oesophagus after taking a counterfeit version of an experimental weight loss drug has prompted Australia’s medicines regulator to warn of serious risks of such products. The concern relates to retatrutide, a type of drug known as a peptid

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Melissa Davey

    Dementia patients warned off seeking home care in case Australia’s aged care algorithm cuts funding (opens the original)

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    Exclusive: FoI documents show senior health officials were warned of concerns about assessment tool weeks after it launched Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast People with dementia were warned not to apply for home support because of fears their care would be downgraded by the government’s aged care algorithm. Documents released to Guardian Australia under freedom of information (FoI) laws reveal the warnings came within weeks of the November rollout of the algorithm, w

  4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Melissa Davey

    ‘Catastrophic’ fears: health staff made lists of concerning cases days after Australia’s aged care funding tool launch (opens the original)

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    Exclusive: Documents reveal assessors’ grave fears if client needs are underestimated by tool that can’t be overridden Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast State health officials were so alarmed by a controversial federal government aged-care funding tool that they kept a log of hundreds of cases where vulnerable older Australians were severely under-assessed. It also led to one senior state health official writing

  5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Melissa Davey

    NSW government to resume pill testing at music festivals but rejects calls for wider community rollout (opens the original)

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    Use of sniffer dogs and searches will continue despite health and harm reduction groups arguing they could lead to riskier drug taking Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Drug testing will resume at New South Wales music festivals from October, but will not be rolled out into the wider community despite calls from peak health and harm reduction groups, while the controversial use of sniffer dogs and searches will cont

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