The medical workforce has become skewed to specialist doctors while the number of general practitioners has barely changed in 10 years, in a trend that threatens to undermine the federal government's push for better primary care.

Dr Google is poaching patients from flesh and blood GPs, with three out of five Australians turning to the internet to avoid seeing a health professional, a new survey suggests.

Three major Melbourne hospitals have replaced heart surgery equipment after it was found to be contaminated with a harmful bacterium that has caused infections for dozens of patients across the world.

Health officials are investigating an outbreak of a rare and potentially serious infectious disease among meat workers in Melbourne's western suburbs.

A new report confirms what many cancer researchers have known - that an “epidemic” can be traced to overdiagnosis.

A rare infection risk has prompted NSW health authorities to replace cardiac surgery equipment at four Sydney hospitals and advise open heart surgery patients to consult their doctors.

They're often the cherry on top of costly policies, but extras such as dental, optical and massage are often unused.

A mother finally has her daughter back after her descent into a decade of drug addiction, sparked by a prescribed pain killer.

An expensive breakthrough drug that prevents people from getting HIV won't be funded by tanxpayers in Australia this year, the nation's drug funding panel has ruled.

One of the most catastrophic types of stroke is easily preventable.

Concerns that Ada and other apps may falsely reassure people about their health or alarm them unnecessarily.

Health insurance policyholders are paying huge premiums but receiving less back on each dollar, latest industry figures show

NSW health authorities are warning of a meningococcal outbreak after five cases were reported in the past week, as the peak season for the disease approaches.

A new study is hoping to find out what pushes parents to risk prosecution to treat their child's epilepsy with cannabis.

Poor doctors will be rooted out and "remediated" under a proposal by the health regulator to raise the competence of medical practitioners.

Heather Irvine has tried just about everything to lose weight. Since the age of 12, she's done Weight Watchers, drank protein shakes, ordered Lite n' Easy and paid for personal coaching. 

A spike in emergency admissions for influenza has signalled that the flu season is gathering pace, with a strain that is tearing through aged care centres.

Pregnant women are being urged to take paracetamol only when necessary after research suggested it was linked to behavioural problems in children.

It is a journey like no other. Walking on the membrane of a breast cancer cell, watching nanoparticles descend to its surface.

The first sign in your child might be a skin infection, fever, or a wound that won't heal. Or maybe one of their joints or bones - a knee or elbow, perhaps - is persistently sore.

Pregnancy may not be the best time for obese mothers-to-be to shed the kilograms with research finding it is usually "too little, too late" for any meaningful benefit. 

Some medical specialties are more inclined to disregard guidelines on antibiotic use, with orthopaedic surgeons at Royal North Shore Hospital the top offenders among those who skipped the approval process for restricted drugs.

The former medical director of a besieged weight loss clinic has been banned from prescribing a peptide with no proven weight loss properties, as complaints mount against the Medical Weightloss Institute.

Aggrieved patients describe the doctor as a man who built up their trust before indecently assaulting them and cleverly disguising it as legitimate medical treatment

Women escaping domestic violence will be have more options under a proposal before NSW parliament.

Patients were left waiting up to an hour for emergency care when demand for ambulances suddenly peaked.

The controversial use of chaperones to oversee doctors accused of serious misconduct, including sexual offences, is being reviewed by the Medical Board of Australia.  

An annual survey of admitted patients in NSW has indicated "clear areas for improvement".

Nearly 50 doctors accused of violating sexual boundaries are working under a controversial chaperone system that allegedly failed three patients last year.