Oh "MG" a sexually transmitted superbug
This sexually transmitted infection is behaving like a superbug and researchers believe it is being carried largely undetected by as many as 400,000 Australians.
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Rania Spooner
Rania is a health reporter at The Age.
Australians scientists make lung cancer breakthrough
Australian scientists believe they've discovered the "origin cell" of a common form of lung cancer that kills thousands of smokers and ex-smokers.
Women forgoing food to pay for abortions: study
Women are forgoing food and bills to fund abortions in Australia as costs remain in the hundreds of dollars despite the introduction of an abortion drug, a national study reveals.
Poor women more likely to have heart attacks
Disadvantaged women are 25 per cent more likely to have a heart attack than their male peers and the gap is probably not because of bad lifestyle habits.
Doctors overestimate benefits, underestimate harm of procedures, drugs
Doctors and nurses often don't accurately know the risks and benefits of common surgical procedures, tests and drugs, potentially adding to costly medical overuse: study
Codeine crackdown: concerns change fails to consider pain treatment and addiction
Australia's move to prescription-only codeine within 18 months has sparked fears of stockpiling while appropriate users face added medical costs; and the problems of addiction and access to pain care remain.
Impotence clinic fined $350k for contempt of court
Male sex clinic Advanced Medical Institute has been slapped with a $350,000 fine for flouting Federal Court orders with thousands of advertisements spruiking the effectiveness of it's impotence treatments.
The prescription for a healthier Australia
Dramatically cutting salt levels in processed foods sold in Australia could save an estimated 3500 lives each year by reducing cardiovascular disease, stroke and kidney disease, according to a new report.
What do you say to the stranger who saved your life?
It had taken too long, their mum was slipping away. By the time her number had been called for a life saving organ the chance of survival was so low.
Most of 260,000 young Australians with chlamydia don't know
Hundreds of thousands of young Australians are living with a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to infertility in women but researchers warn most don't know they've got it.
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