A six-year-old boy has become the first Australian to be infected with the liver-damaging virus hepatitis E by receiving locally donated blood.

Losing as little as 3 kilograms could reduce the national disease burden by 14 per cent by 2020.

The Australian Navy has been ordered to pay compensation to the widow of a sailor whose smoking habit was caused by his military service.

When Ocia Anwar turns 18, she will no longer be covered by Sydney's Bear Cottage and her parents will be faced with a stark choice; place their child in an aged care palliative facility or become 24/7 carers.

An oestrogen shortage has left as many as 300,000 Australian women struggling to buy it.

Band-Aid in-store promotions asserting that the product helps heal wounds "twice as fast" could be removed from shops after its parent company refused to release research proving the claim.

Some doctors have increased their fees by up to 400 per cent, knowing the bill would be footed by taxpayers and not their price sensitive customers.

CancerAid app developed in Australia aims to put the power in patient's hands.

Sydney cancer specialist Dr Kiran Phadke has been cleared to return to work after spending almost 12 months at the centre of a gruelling investigation by health authorities.

Patients are less likely to die within 30 days of hospitalisation for major conditions in NSW than they were in 2009 and the greatest improvement has been in ischemic stroke.

Harry Mayr, a psychologist and children's author, will not be able to practise psychology for five years.

Melbourne scientists have made a big advance in the fight against cancer, finding a way to reduce the growth of some tumours.

Paul Jenkins walked on stage in an exoskeleton at his University of Canberra graduation on Tuesday.

The Medical Board has released it's verdict on the controversial chaperone program for doctors accused of sexually abusing patients.

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The Turnbull government has sought to allay fears it will cut taxpayer-subsidised sick leave for living organ donors from the federal budget.

Anaesthetist who abandoned patient mid-operation, passed out from intoxication found new employment.

The likelihood of a major influenza pandemic on the scale of the deadly Spanish flu is increasing, researchers say.

Six more people have been infected with measles and health authorities have listed some locations where the cases spent time.

The service has been providing safe and effective terminations to hundreds of Australian women.

Julia Proud cried when she was told she needed to stop taking her opioids. "The thought of feeling the pain again was too confronting."

Cabbages, pumpkin and kale are just three of the fruits and vegetables growing thickly in Connor Lynch's backyard in O'Connor - just one of many local efforts to improve nutrition with simple changes in the home.

Canberrans with clinical depression have been asked to help with a groundbreaking international research project.

Almost 2000 Australian babies are born each year with CMV, a virus contracted from their mother which can leave them with permanent disabilities such as blindness, developmental delays, epilepsy and cerebral palsy.

The Auditor-General is considering a fresh investigation into ACT Health's data problems, just two years after the last audit of the directorate's "data integrity".

Why pregnant women aren't told about the serious virus that can cause serious malformations and disability in their unborn babies.

Should a tool widely used to measure healthy weight be trusted when it suggests Thomas Lacombe is overweight?

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The "no strings attached" donation is believed to be the single largest donation to complementary medicine research in Australia.

A parliamentary inquiry has been swamped by the former patients and their families and friends, of Dr Kiran Phadke, the clinical oncologist and haematologist under investigation for practising outside clinical guidelines.

ACT residents are paying the highest prices for key medical specialists in the nation.