Surescripts says that instead of using its own National Provider Identification (NPI) number, Pillpack fraudulently used NPIs that was associated with random healthcare providers.

A Victorian father with a life expectancy of only five to 10 years if he doesn’t get a lung transplant soon is pleading with authorities to reduce the national mandatory limit for silica dust exposure.

Safe Work Australia, the national body that develops work health and safety policies, will decide on Wednesday whether to reduce the dust exposure limit.

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Deep into the new and final season of Orange Is the New Black, the groundbreaking Netflix show about life in a women’s prison, a character slumps in front of her TV, engrossed in Love Island. “I got obsessed with it,” explains Jenji Kohan, the woman who has been at the helm of OITNB for the last six years. “A friend who is British introduced it to my life last year, and I got unhealthily involved.” And so she wrote it into her series, giving her obsession to one of the characters, where it appears in the background like a branded water bottle.

Kohan does very few interviews – “I chose to be a writer for a reason. I don’t particularly want to be in front of the camera, so to speak” – but she is funny, dry-witted and very frank. So much so that she ends our conversation with a wistful: “I hope I didn’t say stupid things that will bite me in the ass later.”

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‘We’re encouraging young people to talk about mental health but, when they do, the support is not always there,” was the key message from last night’s Dispatches: Young, British and Depressed on Channel 4.

Last year, there were 700,000 referrals of children and young people into mental health services – a 45% increase in two years. What questions should we be asking about such a sharp rise? Can it really be that this generation’s teenagers are inherently more sad, anxious or vulnerable than those of the past?

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