Australian shares enjoyed their third best week of 2015 thanks to a strong recovery rally in the big banks and Telstra.

Telstra to create national cancer register

Telstra has secured $220 million government contract to build the Australian National Cancer Screening Register, a task that the Department of Human Services is understood to have told the government it did not had the capacity to deliver.

The scientists say the results could pave the way for medication to lower GlycA levels in patients with high readings.

US approves CSL flu vaccine

Biopharma company CSL has received US regulatory approval for a formulation of its Flucelvax Quadrivalent influenza vaccine.

Shorten's $8b drag on budget

Labor's major promises will cost $8 billion over the next four years, raising the prospect it could leave the budget worse off in the short ...