Nearly 64 per cent of Australians are obese or overweight. And fewer people are trying to shift it.

Canberrans paying an average $258 for each patient in an ACT hospital.

Australian researchers may have found a solution to help deal with fire-fighting contamination water at Defence bases and other airports around the country.

After pushing for a decade to make it easier to import chemicals – and getting what it wanted – why is the cosmetics industry changing its tune?

Health authorities have investigated 40 doctors, nurses and other professionals over the baby deaths scandal at Bacchus Marsh Hospital.

Fairfax Media journalist Stephanie Wood has won an award for her Good Weekend feature on opioid addiction.

Drug safety and regulation in Australia are under threat from US President Donald Trump, says leading Australian medic John Rasko.

"Basically amputation was my only chance of survival."

A leading Sydney doctor says the push for natural childbirth is endangering women and babies.

Australian health providers have been accused of refusing to give medical care to one in six unvaccinated children.

A new blood test which enables doctors to more accurately and rapidly assess the success of a bone marrow transplant has been hailed a lifesaver.

A seventh measles case has emerged in NSW in just nine weeks.

Health minister intervenes as surgeons walk off job, leaving a backlog of patients waiting for orthopaedic procedures.

If a surgery is botched, a patient's medication mixed up, a baby switched at birth or an inpatient takes their own life, the federal government will no longer foot the bill.

Early puberty in girls could indicate a heightened risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to research taken from an Australian survey of more than 4000 women.

Some specialist doctors are charging more than $300 for a first appointment in Australia's private medical market - five times what some of their peers charge.

Life in an outer suburb may be making its dwellers more obese than inner city slickers, new research suggests.

In 2012, Australia took on big tobacco and won.

Jamie McIntyre embarked on an arduous journey to get pregnant, enduring multiple miscarriages, after a simple fertility test revealed she had no time to wait.

Drug companies paid doctors and other 'health professionals' at least $9.5 million in six months last year for their advice and to attend events.

Some feel religion and medicine should not mix, but the Canberra Christians in Medicine group are united in the belief their faith has a place in their work.

Les thought buying hearing aids would be a simple exercise. But he soon found out otherwise.

Exposure to chemical insecticides called pyrethroids during pregnancy may affect your child's behaviour, a study shows.

A survey of maternity patients at NSW public hospitals suggests midwife-led care is crucial to a good experience.

The body produces its own natural defence against HIV, scientists have found, and harnessing this under-used weapon could change the way we treat the virus and prevent it from spreading.

Researchers have identified genetic clues which could reveal a person's risk of going blind.

Leading drug experts have called for more money to be spent on treatment and prevention to tackle illicit drug use.

The NSW Farmers is concerned about the rise in reporting rates of a rare infection, known as Q fever and called for the vaccine to be introduced to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and better training of doctors to screen for the disease at hospitals.

All high income Australians would pay the 1 to 1.5 per cent Medicare Levy Surcharge under a budget proposal that would raise a breathtaking $4 billion per year, more than 6 times the net amount saved in the first Turnbull budget.