Vanessa Smith could not overstate the role she and other Aboriginal health workers play in breaking the cycle of distrust Indigenous families feel for health services.

The health insurance industry's plan to lure more young people into the system.

Two studies by the same group of researchers have given soft drink consumers a whole new reason to drop the habit.

"You feel like you're going to vomit, the world is spinning around you, light hurts, sound hurts. And then Babe Ruth takes a baseball bat to your head".

Federal government considering phasing out toxic chemicals once used in fire-fighting foams, in the wake of a spill near Brisbane Airport.

The latest infectious person also spent time at a busy shopping centre in the school holidays.

More than 700 public patients have had their privacy breached after more than 1000 medical letters were found dumped in Sydney bin.

So far 51 cases of a rare blood cancer linked to breast implants confirmed in Australia.

Peak medical council knocks back push to allow parents to choose gender of their baby.

The national watchdog is probing a vital piece of surgical equipment used in hospitals across the country after four people contracted a rare and serious infection during heart surgery.

A Sydney GP has been found guilty of professional misconduct for inappropriately touching five female patients for sexual gratification including two young teenage girls.

International patient safety expert Sir Liam Donaldson said there is work to be done to reduce medical errors.

A public health advocate has slammed the organisation for its refusal to endorse March for Science rallies in Australia.

AMA voices concerns about the safety of getting a flu shot in a pharmacy.

Thousands of patients are being exposed to potentially fatal superbugs because their doctors and other hospital staff are not washing their hands, new data shows.

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.