Michelle died of meningitis after a middle ear infection spread to her brain. Her condition was overlooked by medical staff who couldn't see past her mild intellectual disability.

Health authorities have warned another person who has contracted the measles spent time in several public areas in Sydney suburbs while they were contagious.

Australians are paying record high premiums for private health insurance, and it's set to go even higher. Many economists think the price hikes cannot be justified.

It was landmark win for cystic fibrosis patients, however many patients in need of another drug continue to wait.

All NSW students in year 11 and 12 will be offered free meningococcal vaccination to combat the rise in W strain cases and protect them against the potentially fatal disease.

Thousands of Australians with pacemakers and defibrillators in their hearts are at risk of cybersecurity breaches that could allow somebody to kill them, doctors say.

The overwhelming statistics showing Australia's dizzying cancer rates have been released ahead of World Cancer Day.

Matt Brown was working up to 60 hours a week when he realised something had to change.

A study by Sydney researchers has found drugs offer little relief for back pain, but may have serious side effects.

Less than one dollar in a thousand spent on health in Australia goes to one of the biggest threats facing the sector, a new paper finds.

A lack of continuous care for a young girl who died from multi-organ failure after contracting a common virus played a role in her death, a coroner has found.

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Google is launching 'Google Health' in Australia.

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.

 Your life really does flash before your eyes when you die, a study suggests - with the parts of the brain that store memories the last to be affected as other functions fail.

Australian scientists believe they've discovered the "origin cell" of a common form of lung cancer that kills thousands of smokers and ex-smokers.

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

People considering entering a clinical trial should not be put off from all trials by some studies with questionable financial ties.

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.

Tens of thousands of Victorian patients are using their health insurance in public hospitals without any guarantee it will get them faster care, a choice of doctor or a private room.

Lobbyists for 'big food' are potentially swaying health policies in favour of their corporate bottom line in Australia, new research has claimed.

Doctors diagnosing less severe autism have caused the dramatic rise in diagnoses, which is putting pressure on the public purse.

Only 35 per cent of Australian women eligible for medical abortion are choosing the procedure over surgery, a new study has found.

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.

"One in five Australian children are obese before they start school – that number just speaks for itself, that we're not doing enough."

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.

The head of the influential doctors lobby has called out the opposition's criticisms of the health system under minister Jillian Skinner as unhelpful and corrosive and urged Labor not to use hospitals to push its own political agenda.

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

The thought of being investigated for prostate cancer terrified Paul Davies. About a year ago, Mr Davies was told to see a urologist about a high PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood test.

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.