Requests for caesareans are "frowned upon" across Queensland Health because they're less cost-effective and carry greater risk, an inquest into a baby's death has heard.

Rye and sourdough breads may seem to be the healthier options at the supermarket. But researchers are raising alarm over high salt levels.

Food companies are being accused of hiding the unhealthiness of products by keeping the packaging void of health star ratings.

A consumer group says patients should investigate fees before they commit to a doctor and haggle if they can't afford it.

​There are calls for tighter restrictions on the sale of all over-the-counter painkillers in Australia after an international study found a significant link between ibuprofen use and cardiac arrest.

Several Sydney suburbs have been drained of their ambulances after a network shake-up, the Health Services Union warns.

Banok Rind was told she'd grow up to be unemployed and drunk. The aspiring nurse is combating racism from inside the health system.

Overworked hospital staff are being pushed to the brink by record numbers of sicker patients, the AMA NSW warned.

A small clinical trial using brain stimulation to fire up the neurons in Alzheimer's patients is showing promise. Jo Duff was one of those who experienced marked improvement.

Pelvic devices developed in Australia from the 1980s and 1990s are at the centre of a global medical scandal that includes regulatory failure, and allegations of research fraud and experimental surgery on women in multiple countries.

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.