A controversial chemical commonly found in food containers has again been linked to poor health outcomes - this time in a study of embryos.

Paramedics are being wrongly dispatched to triple-zero calls from up to 50 kilometres away by a failing tracking system that routinely loses ambulances on NSW roads.

A functional cure for HIV may have been found in a Queensland laboratory.

Jacqueline Oliver was drenched and freezing when she was found stuck in a fence outside her aged-care home.

The Alzheimer's gene, which seriously raises the risk of developing dementia, is already affecting carriers by the age of three, shrinking their brains and lowering cognition, a study suggests.

Patients will wait longer for an ambulance to reach them in suburbs furthest away from a superstation, the HSU warns.

An analysis of 3.9 million healthy non-smokers has found the excess risk of dying prematurely doubles for the overweight and moderately obese.

A childbirth course that dramatically reduced the rate of medical interventions has raised serious questions.

Kids think food and drink companies that sponsor their club are 'cool', says researcher.

Australia's chief medical officer Professor Chris Baggoley has announced his retirement after more than five years in the role. 

The leading killers - cancer, heart disease and stroke - are coming later in life in wealthy countries as people in general live longer in good health.

Doctor have reconstructed how last year's outbreak in Seoul jumped from a single businessman to killing 26 and infecting 186.

Melanoma rates in Australia have nearly doubled in recent decades and the sunburnt country now has the world's second highest incidence of the skin cancer.

The world's HIV pandemic could be wiped out by a revolutionary preventative pill, but investment in the class of drugs involved is likely to be blocked by discriminatory attitudes towards homosexuals, sex workers and drug users, a top scientist says.

Australia's AIDS experts chose their words carefully when they announced an end to the epidemic.

It took two-and-a-half years for Maddison O'Gradey Lee's agonising condition to be properly diagnosed.

A Canberra academic believes it is time to review the $6 billion a year private health insurance subsidy.

Helena Chen will have to wait months before she knows if the damage is permanent.

The once-controversial method of beaming magnetic fields into the frontal areas of the brain to treat depression has been shown to help those with drug-resistant depression.

That slice of toast, the piece of cheese and even your favourite tomato sauce. It may not taste like it but it's probably laced with hidden sugar or salt. And it could be slowly killing us.

Doctors are urging people to find a regular GP who they can trust and call on after hours to help stem a rise in unnecessary and costly hospital visits.

Parents are swamping emergency departments with children suffering from minor complaints.

Calvary Hospital has set up an isolation ward as it works to contain a gastro outbreak.

Nursing homes, child care centres and hospitals are all affected.

Drug users are rejecting a new batch of syringes in Australia's needle exchange programs, saying they're too blunt and that the tips are snapping off in people's arms.

Clients of a Sydney woman operating as a cosmetic practitioner have been urged to see their GP.

Obese pre-schoolers are two to three times more likely to be admitted to hospital and have 60 per cent higher healthcare costs than healthy-weight children.

Paramedics who face snowy conditions will get winter uniforms, but the ambo who raised the issue has been warned.

'We need to get drunk, go home, have a bit of a cry, and then do something about it tomorrow,' one prominent researcher says.