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.

The outbreak has rocked the industry and cut profits, Australia's biggest melon grower says.

"Do patients need to be informed?" The outrageous suggestion tears at the edges of an extraordinary week for the state's health system that saw announced the exposure of three critical medical errors at three separate Sydney hospitals.

Australians are paying five times more than Britons for medical care, causing many people with chronic health conditions to forgo treatment because it's too expensive.

 In the three months between the post-miscarriage ultrasound that first found the mass in her abdomen and the surgery that finally identified it, the cancer grew from six centimetres to more than eleven, sprouted cancer-spreading fluid and caused her increasing pain. So when Bronwyn Grout woke from surgery to learn both her ovaries had been removed and she had a stage three ovarian cancer— and she would be lucky to survive five years—she was scared but not entirely surprised. The surprise came later.

A cancer patient caught up in the latest chemotherapy dosing scandal at a Sydney hospital said a senior hospital staff member told her not to "run to the media".

Complaints against Medibank are escalating at a stunning rate.

A woman giving birth in her 60s might incite shock and awe today. But within 50 years, there's a good chance it will be reasonably common.

More than 80 people have been struck down by a national salmonella outbreak as health authorities warn pregnant women, infants and the elderly to avoid eating rockmelons.