The health insurance industry's report card shows one fund has shed more than 45,000 members.

More than a million Australians have been diagnosed with cancer, and one in 23 Australians are now living in its shadow.

Scientists have found a way to reverse the ageing process, extending the lifespan of mice by 20 per cent and raising the prospect of an anti-ageing treatment for humans within a decade.

Two children and a young woman contracted measles and spent time in western Sydney while infectious

Halfway through her HSC, Rachel Woolley was suffering exhaustion and a stiff neck.

A 21-year-old cancer patient with just months to live had his Centrelink payments cut off because he failed to go job-hunting.

A man who allegedly impersonated a doctor worked shifts at the Royal North Shore and Mona Vale Hospitals, health authorities reported on Thursday.

She's the scientist who was appointed as editor to almost 50 academic journals. Trouble is she doesn't exist

Jan Wise is "rotting from the inside" after being implanted with a high-risk pig-intestine pelvic mesh device in 2012 by a doctor with a history of botched surgery involving women in America.

The manufacturer of EpiPen has issued a recall because of a defective part.

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.