WA has recorded its first measles case for 2025 after the virus was confirmed in a traveller who had returned from a trip to Pakistan.
Hannah Cross
An estimated 4000 babies were prevented from being born too early each year of a three-year program geared towards reducing preterm births.
A higher intake of caffeine, fruit, dietary fibre, and dairy products could reduce tinnitus, according to a Chinese study.
Jane Kirby
New research has revealed the reasons behind why night owls might be at greater risk of depression.
While microdosing LSD is being cautiously explored for therapeutic benefit again, it’s probably not going to help with your ADHD.
People buying medicines regularly will save hundreds of dollars more as Anthony Albanese locks in health as the centrepiece of his election campaign and budget’s cost-of-living relief.
Katina Curtis
Body image experts have slammed social media’s ‘chubby filter’ trend as fatphobic, fat-shaming and warned it could encourage eating disorders.
Kate Emery
About four in five people will experience lower-back pain at some point in their lives, with 80-90 per cent of back pain deemed non-specific, without an immediately identifiable cause.
Meredith Hammat, WA’s new Health Minister, has been accused of not having any experience in the critical sector as she prepares to take on one of the toughest roles in government.
Dylan Caporn
Doctors say Australia's largest public health system is struggling to cope with demand as non-urgent patients are encouraged to seek alternatives to emergency.
Jack Gramenz
Paramedics were forced to wait half an hour to transfer a man suffering a major stroke because hospital staff had not completed the necessary paperwork.
Psychological injuries that stop people getting on with the job have been blamed for making a major state workers compensation scheme unsustainable.
Scientists say adding a common sweetener to taste receptors in hair follicles appears to prevent growth, offering hope of new treatments for unwanted hair.
Ella Pickover
The compassionate and caring staff at MotherSafe are being celebrated on the service's 25th anniversary, having provided advice to more than 400,000 callers.
Maeve Bannister
Australians living with the nation's most common mental health condition are being enlisted to help unlock its genetic secrets.
Rachael Ward
A WorkSafe investigation has been launched following a chlorine gas leak at the Collie Mineworkers Memorial Pool that resulted in nine nearby residents being evacuated and one woman being put in hospital.
Ezra Kaye
Australian researchers are calling for volunteers to take part in a ground breaking study which will help improve diagnosis, treatment and the management of anxiety.
Artemisia Blythe
The Albanese Government has promised it will spend $7 million upgrading a national health website that was supposed to enable Australians to shop around for affordable healthcare if it is re-elected.
Emily Moulton
A decade on, what hurts the most is the simplicity of how Riley’s life could have been saved and how many Australians are blind to the benefits of vaccines.
Christopher Dore
It has been 10 years since Catherine and Greg Hughes last held their baby boy Riley, as he succumbed to whooping cough just 32 days after he was born.
Rhianna Mitchell
Psychiatrists are demanding a big, one-off pay increase as they face off in court against a state government refusing to budge.
Farid Farid and Luke Costin
The amount Australians must pay for their medical costs will become clearer under an election promise to improve the nation's price disclosure tool.
Kat Wong
The changes will come into effect on May 1.
Luke Costin
As the Labor Government gets back to work this week, chief among Premier Roger Cook’s jobs will be to reshuffle his Cabinet.
