Nany Maree's monthly posts

• October 2026If you're on the jab, tell the anaesthetist. That's the whole post, love. The rest is why.
• September 2026Herbal doesn't mean harmless. I say that with a whole shelf of tinctures behind me, so you know I mean it.
• August 2026For twenty years, 50 mg was the "safe" daily limit for vitamin B6. Now the NHMRC wants it cut to 14. That's a seventy-tw
• July 2026Five hundred dollars. For a drip. Sit down, I'll tell you.
• June 2026Sixteen sunscreens didn't do what the bottle said. Seven of them claimed SPF 50 and tested in the twenties. One tested a
• May 2026Four weeks of dinners and you're biologically younger. That's the headline, anyway.
• April 2026Right. Monash looked at 2,100-odd Aussie adults and found the more packet food on the plate, the worse they did on focus
• March 2026'Likely to cause lung and oral cancers.' That's the finding on nicotine vapes from a UNSW-led review.
• February 2026Even people in the trade call cosmetic injectables the 'wild west' of medicine. And business is booming.
• January 2026A third batch of counterfeit Botox has turned up in Australia. Third. Six months after the TGA's first warning in July.
• December 2025Mercury. Lead. Arsenic. Cadmium. Not a heavy metal band, love. Three tablets.
• November 2025Remember January's B6 story? The TGA has made its call.
• October 2025The sunscreen base behind twenty Australian products came from a Perth company that's been on the American FDA's 'Red Li
• September 2025Well. The American President stood at a podium and told pregnant women to avoid paracetamol. Here's how our side answere
• August 2025Nineteen ninety-five a month for unlimited medical certificates. That's one online doctor's subscription.
• July 2025Last month I asked who signed off on those sunscreens. The ABC went and found out.
• June 2025Choice sent twenty sunscreens to an accredited lab. Sixteen didn't reach the SPF on the bottle.
• May 2025One doctor. Seventeen thousand scripts. Six months. That's one every four minutes, love, and I've sat through plenty of
• April 2025Four hundred medicines on the TGA's short-supply list. Four hundred.
• March 2025Less fruit, more biscuits. That's where the CSIRO reckons we're heading by 2030.
• February 2025Strawberry Fruit Wiggles. Nearly seventy per cent sugar. That's marshmallow territory, love, sold in the toddler aisle.
• January 2025A retired emergency doctor, of all people, poisoned herself with a vitamin. Not on purpose. Straight off the shelf.
• December 2024Four point one billion dollars. That's what the cosmetic injectables industry here was worth last year.
• November 2024Frailty can start creeping up nine years before a dementia diagnosis. Nine years.
• October 2024The COVID inquiry report is out. I read it the way I read everything. Slowly, with a highlighter.
• September 2024About a hundred people over sixty-five land in a NSW hospital every day after a fall. So, naturally, they're cutting the
• August 2024Twelve spinal cord stimulators cancelled. Conditions slapped on fifty-two more. Ninety-one under review.
• July 2024Two in three women say they've met medical misogyny. I believe them.
• June 2024Up to sixty dollars a month. That's what one menopause medicine costs some women, because it isn't on the PBS.
• May 2024Kids aged nine to thirteen already eat about double the protein they need. So why is the snack aisle shouting about it?
• April 2024Tax-deductible gym memberships. Guess who's asking.
• March 2024A bloke in Adelaide found his own face fronting a pro-vaping campaign. He'd been paid less than a cent for it.
• February 2024Same policy. Same family. $1,710 more a year than three years ago.
• January 2024Bacon and eggs didn't win breakfast. A PR man did.
• December 2023In January I asked who was advertising a diabetes drug on TikTok. It's December, and the Ozempic shortage is now tipped
• November 2023Eight pharmacies in four days. That's what one Perth woman told the ABC she did to find her HRT patches.
• October 2023Melatonin you breathe in. Vitamins in a vape. Somebody in marketing earned their bonus.
• September 2023An inquiry into the pandemic that won't look at lockdowns or border closures. I had to read that twice.
• August 2023The dietary guidelines on your fridge are ten years old. The NHMRC is finally opening them up.
• July 2023Two reports on aspartame came out on the same Friday. One from the cancer researchers, one from the food additive expert
• June 2023Recalled in November. Back on a supermarket shelf by June. Read that again.
• May 2023Pink unicorns. Bubblegum. Vapes disguised as pens so kids can hide them in pencil cases. The Health Minister listed them
• April 2023Two months of tablets for one script. That's the headline, and for once it's a nice one.
• March 2023Last month Australia became the first country to let psychiatrists prescribe MDMA and psilocybin. This month the ABC wen
• February 2023Norway pulled it in 2007. Sweden stopped selling it in the late eighties. We pulled it this week.
• January 2023Three hundred and eighty-three million. That's how many views the Ozempic hashtag has racked up on TikTok. For a diabete
• December 2022"Added folder full. Case closed." That's how the hackers signed off after dumping the last of the stolen Medibank files.
• November 2022For the first time since the PBS began, the most you'll pay for a script is going down. From $42.50 to $30. I had to rea
• October 2022A woman on the Central Coast went five weeks without her diabetes injection, then had to switch to insulin. Three jabs a
• September 2022From 14 October, nobody has to isolate for COVID. Two and a half years of rules, finished at one meeting.
• August 2022More than 340 medicines are in short supply right now, with another 85 expected to join them. Cold and flu tablets, hear
• July 2022The pandemic leave payment stopped at the end of June. By mid-July, it's back. Funny how quickly a deadline moves when t
• June 2022People can't expect to be bulk-billed anymore. That's the Consumers Health Forum talking, not some grumpy bloke at the p
• May 2022Over 2020 and 2021 put together, Australia logged 598 confirmed flu cases. In the first four months of this year, it log
• April 2022The committee met on 23 March. We got to read what it said on 31 March. Eight days, love. I counted.
• March 2022A mosquito virus most of us couldn't spell last month has turned up in fourteen piggeries across four states. That got m
• February 2022Two doses used to make you "fully vaccinated". This week that phrase got retired. Same people, new word.
• January 2022Someone's been splitting multi-test kits and flogging the tests one by one. The head of the ACCC called it "appalling be
• December 2021Thirty dollars for two tests. I'd like to know who decided that was fine.
• November 2021Raw oysters for Christmas? Check where they're from first.
• October 2021Over the counter since February. Number of products on the counter? Zero.
• September 2021From the first of October, you'll need a doctor's script to import nicotine for your vape.
• August 2021Ask the GPs who covers them if something goes wrong. Months in, they still can't get a straight answer.
• July 2021Three changes of advice in four months. I've given up on the fridge list.
• June 2021Under fifty in April. Under sixty now. I'm keeping a list on the fridge.
• May 2021Two point three billion dollars. The Treasurer called it a record. I got the calculator out.
• April 2021Seven weeks ago it was the workhorse. Tonight it's second choice for anyone under fifty.
• March 2021A hundred and forty-eight recommendations. Eight volumes. I filed less than that in a year at the practice.
• February 2021Two vaccines in three weeks. The paperwork's piling up on my kitchen table.
• January 2021Provisional. That's the word I underlined twice on Monday.
• December 2020Fifty-one million doses ordered. Then a test came back positive that nobody saw coming. Or did they?
• November 2020Three days. That's what one lie cost South Australia, and then the state got them back.
• October 2020Provisional. Write that word on the back of your hand, because you're going to hear it a lot.
• September 2020Somebody decided to put private security guards on Melbourne's quarantine hotels. A former judge is now asking who, and
• August 2020"As mandatory as you could possibly make it." That's the Prime Minister, talking about a vaccine that hasn't finished it
• July 2020Two hundred dollars. That's what a bare face will cost you in Melbourne from Wednesday night.
• June 2020Ninety-six thousand patients. Six hundred and seventy-one hospitals. One of the biggest medical journals in the world. T