Newborns given potentially ineffective hepatitis B vaccine at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital

Babies vaccinated for hepatitis B at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital may have been given an ineffective dose, after a fridge used to store the vaccines was too warm.

Female doctors sent to fetch tea and sandwiches

Female intensive care doctors are copping sexual harassment and discrimination in high stakes, high-stress ICU wards. 

How a Sydney cancer scientist became a research fraud super sleuth

It was a gut feeling that had Professor Jennifer Byrne flipping open her laptop on a Saturday night and firing up the medical equivalent of a Google search.

Less mature schoolkids misdiagnosed with ADHD, researchers suggest

A child's birth date is a powerful predictor of whether they will be medicated for ADHD, suggesting we may be overdiagnosing and over treating children.

Why Sydney's urban sprawl is making us sick and the maps that prove it

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The shocking maps of Sydney that turned an economics report into a stark health warning.

'We've all sensed it': doctors' plea to public to report abuse as numbers rise

Every 15 minutes a child is abused in Australia, data shows. A new campaign is determined to break the cycle of violence.

Health groups funded by industry ‘subtly distorting’ disease message, alleges study

Patient advocacy groups should be forced to declare their commercial funding, experts say.

Two patients with flesh-eating bacteria in Sydney hospital

Two people are in a stable condition in Blacktown Hospital after they contracted rare flesh-eating bacteria overseas.

Nepean Hospital not 'taken off matrix'

Nepean Hospital issued a stern statement emphatically stating no ambulances were diverted its ED on Monday when the hospital struggled to cope with its huge patient load.