Health

The number of measles cases nationwide is now approaching triple the number of cases reported in 2024 as outbreaks continue around the world.

A review into the death of newborn baby Tommy Starkie reveals multiple failures in the care provided to his mother during her labour at Perth's King Edward Maternity Hospital earlier this year.

Frederic Pechier's youngest victim, a four-year-old, survived two cardiac arrests during routine tonsil surgery in 2016. 

Prostate cancer survivor Mick Barrett is calling on businesses to consider installing rubbish bins inside men's bathrooms to help those with incontinence.

Experts call for urgent action to turn around an "unacceptable" decline in testing for a disease that kills 20 people every day.

Share the Dignity and the Australian Society of Psychological Medicine back calls for vending machines providing pads, tampons and underwear in NSW hospitals.

The images and descriptions of the Bondi Beach shooting attack are confronting, and having an emotional reaction is normal, experts say.

The 85-year-old singer says the disease has been successfully treated, and he is urging people to get checked.

There doesn't seem to be much political mileage for the government to do anything at all — whether that is cracking down and forcing cannabis users back onto the black market or fully legalising the substance.  

Online short-form video has shifted from a light distraction to a constant backdrop in many children's lives. But they were never built with children in mind, although many children use them daily.

Data obtained by the ABC shows people are waiting months, if not years, for dental care in every Australian state and territory due to the cost.

Every year about 1.5 million Australians travel to Bali. Chances are either you or someone you know has caught a stomach bug after travelling to the popular Indonesian destination. So what can you do to avoid it?

The reforms have unleashed a wave of confusion and despair amongst hundreds of thousands of elderly Australians, from those wanting care to those who already have it.

State health ministers had their final meeting of the year with their federal counterpart on Friday armed with figures showing a 25 per cent increase in just three months of aged care patients stranded in hospitals.

The prime minister wrote to states and territories this week, upping the Commonwealth's offer for public hospital funding.

From bushfires and decreasing air quality to flooding and erosion, climate change is threatening our relationship with nature, and people with disability are being disproportionately impacted.

A coroner's court has heard Melbourne nutrition influencer Stacey Warnecke died from a postpartum haemorrhage following a freebirth in September.

Patients have described the procedure as "life changing" but pelvic botox injections are no longer available publicly in the ACT, with Canberra Health Services ceasing the procedure "as a precaution due to unknown risks".

Patients have described the procedure as "life changing" but pelvic botox injections are no longer available publicly in the ACT, with Canberra Health Services ceasing the procedure "as a precaution due to unknown risks".

Patients have described the procedure as "life changing" but pelvic botox injections are no longer available publicly in the ACT, with Canberra Health Services ceasing the procedure "as a precaution due to unknown risks".