Three years after NDIS trials began, failures in the full national rollout over the last two months has led the federal government to promise an independent complaints system and new agreement on quality and standards.

In the patient handover meeting, he was listed as "unknown male", a young man whose body had been ejected from a car in a high speed accident.

The patient had been raped. Her fallopian tubes had to be taken because he'd given her gonorrhoea. And with them had gone her dream of becoming a mother.

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For one Sydney family the news that a stillborn baby had been mistakenly cremated left them with a visceral sense of deja vu. They had lived through it three years earlier.

Dozens of Australians have been infected with the Zika virus this year and there are concerns more will contract it while travelling in Asia where cases are proliferating.

The president of IVF's peak body says that there is little taxpayer value in subsidising treatment after a woman turns 45.

Drug companies have paid Australian doctors and nurses more than $64 million since April 2015 to attend "educational events", advisory group meetings and to act as consultants.

Medicinal cannabis will become legalised, but strictly controlled, from November this year, under a formal decision reached by the Therapeutic Goods Administration this week.

​The first drug to combat Alzheimer's disease is on the horizon after scientists proved they can halt mental decline by clearing the sticky plaques from the brain that cause dementia.

Like a host intervening between feuding relatives at a Christmas lunch, the ABC has moved to separate logos on its website.

A miscarried baby was mistakenly cremated in a tragic hospital mix up that robbed grieving parents of being able to bury their child.

A substance used by athletes could be the key to a healthy birth weight for babies? It's a novel theory that has found some solid footing in Australian research published today. 

The charging practices of specialist doctors indicate that the market lacks transparency.

The family of the baby boy who died after being given the wrong gas at a Sydney hospital is deeply distressed by the systemic failures revealed by an investigation into the shocking incident.

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The cluster of recent NSW hospital scandals have severely damaged the public's perception of the state's health system, an exclusive poll reveals

Dr Kathleen McNamee has thought a lot about what it means to be an "abortion doctor".

The federal government was quick to identify someone to blame about the brief failure of the online census, but has barely acknowledged the extended – and more disruptive – failure of the NDIS system, a leading disability advocate said.

A new genetic test could see thousands of Australian women with early-stage breast cancer safely avoid chemotherapy, a landmark trial shows.

A prominent Melbourne cancer clinic is being investigated for alleged Medicare fraud and potentially ripping off state government hospital funding.

Girls enrolled in the Virtual Infant Parenting Program were twice as likely to give birth in their teens than girls who who had no intervention.

Doctors working in the public system should be banned from refusing to perform certain procedures, such as abortions, because of their religious beliefs, a leading bioethicist will argue in Brisbane next week.

Photographer Andrew Chapman, himself an organ transplant recipient, was given access to document the full gamut of an organ donation case.

Why do we spend one-third of our lives with our eyes closed? A new study might provide an answer.

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.