Aged care is being hit both ways by the ageing of Australia’s population. While population ageing is increasing the number of Australians in need of formal care, it’s also reducing the proportion of working age people able to provide formal care.
There is no evidence 15 schoolchildren who were hospitalised in Townsville were exposed to a toxic substance, Queensland Police say.
A judge is being urged to apologise to a woman who was ordered out of a Victorian courtroom for breastfeeding her baby.
Australia's nicotine consumption increased by 30 per cent in the early stages of the pandemic due to high stress and restrictions, researchers suggest.
More than a dozen children are in hospital after they became sick from eating an unknown substance on a school bus.
A mother breastfeeding her child was asked to leave a court by a judge because he was concerned she would be a distraction to jurors.
Travellers to Australia from China will no longer need to prove a negative COVID-19 test, following the scrapping of testing requirements.
Labor has offered a "fresh start" for NSW as Anthony Albanese joined an election campaign launch in Sydney, three weeks out from the state heading to the polls.
A new telehealth program helping rural people with aphasia is showing early signs of success, offering patients 50 hours of speech therapy from their own homes.
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Queensland hospitals are struggling to meet demand with more than 104,000 outpatients waiting longer than the clinically recommended time to see a specialist.
Donor-conceived people are in line for more rights to access their genetic history in Queensland as the government responds to several recommendations.
Premier Daniel Andrews has ruled out Victoria embarking on a pill-testing trial after Queensland flagged plans to roll out a site within the next six months.
Country kids' charity Royal Far West is rolling out wellbeing programs in NSW and Queensland schools to help traumatised children in disaster zones.
A new report into the mental health burden of disasters across Australia shows adequate insurance coverage is central to recovery.
Next month, the town of Collinsville in outback Queensland will experience a remarkable transformation as Alice Randell leads a team of over 60 participants in their own International Women's Day Fun Run.
Queensland partygoers will be able to legally test illicit drugs by the end of the year after successful trials in the ACT.
The clinical lead behind Canberra's community drug-checking site has lauded Queensland for introducing pill testing to reduce harm.
The World Health Organisation has described the global H5N1 bird flu situation as "worrying" after two human cases of the disease were reported in Cambodia.
The Victorian government is refusing to budge on adding an opt-out clause to proposed medical information sharing laws in the face of mounting criticism.
Patient safety and pain relief is in the spotlight as more states allow pharmacists to prescribe medication, with doctors and pharmacists bitterly divided.
Queensland health organisations have welcomed the expansion of a drug diversion program as a positive step towards a health-based approach to drug use.
Women who have quality relationships in their 40s and 50s are less likely to develop multiple chronic conditions in older age, a study suggests.
A prominent union says it will take matters into its own hands if the government fails to ban engineered stone linked to a deadly and incurable disease.
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has told a disciplinary probe he 'took too much' of one woman's brain and was 'too radical' in another surgery but denies negligence.
Health officials have told an inquiry a national plan in how to manage cases of long COVID is being developed.
NSW paramedics will rally outside the office of the NSW deputy premier as they call for equal pay with their interstate counterparts in "five weeks of fury".
Star neurosurgeon Charlie Teo slapped an unconscious patient across the face in an attempt to rouse her following brain surgery, a medical inquiry has heard.
A medical disciplinary hearing for controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo continues in Sydney after hearing allegations of patients being given false hope.
The Australia Institute's Unlucky Country report reveals the growing disparity in life expectancy between the city and the bush.
Peer support mental health service Youth Insearch is campaigning to end youth suicide, remembering the 402 young Australians who took their own lives in 2021.
A man has told a disciplinary hearing into Charlie Teo that his wife never recovered after the star neurosurgeon operated on her brain tumour.
