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Overdoses linked to illicit vape juice

20th November, 2023

NSW Health has issued a community drug alert after at least three overdoses, including one death, were linked to potent opioids in black market vape j...

Leading melanoma pathologist named joint NSW Australian of the Year

14th November, 2023

NSW Health Pathology’s Professor Richard Scolyer AO and his colleague, oncologist Professor Georgina Long AO will share the title of 2024 NSW Austra...

Construction starts on Dubbo pathology laboratory

14th November, 2023

The Dubbo community is a step closer to a new, expanded NSW Health Pathology laboratory, with construction work now underway on the $6 million facilit...

How COVID challenged us and what lies ahead

8th November, 2023

On International Pathology Day, NSW Health Pathology’s A/Director of Public Health Pathology Dr Catherine Pitman and her colleagues consider the imp...

High-dose MDMA drug warning for NSW

3rd November, 2023

NSW Health is warning the public of multiple high-dose MDMA (ecstasy) tablets currently circulating in the state. NSW Health Pathology’s Forensic &...

What goes on inside a pathology laboratory?

30th October, 2023

International Pathology Day is on 8 November 2023. To celebrate, we’ve given some budding young scientists access to one of our newest laboratories ...

Challenges of testing urine for drugs of abuse

23rd October, 2023

Testing urine for drugs is a well-accepted scientific process, providing verifiable and reliable results. But testing whether the urine is real and no...

From emergency nursing to collections

16th October, 2023

Lee Wakeman has been a registered nurse blood collector for NSW Health Pathology for just over a year and is enjoying a welcome change of pace from he...

Take a look inside a compulsory drug treatment centre

6th October, 2023

Here at NSW Health Pathology we spend a lot of time analysing samples and producing results. Recently we got to see how our work is making a differenc...