The mental health sector requires major reforms, not simply more money, according to Professor Ian Hickie.

For the first time, Australian shops will be allowed to sell hemp foods legally.

Kerin Kenny worked so much overtime she became physically ill. Once, she was so exhausted she slept under her desk.

State's emergency control centre to monitor emergency departments in real time to detect surges.

There's one yoghurt that has more sugar than ice-cream.

Researchers in Germany based their findings on more than 3000 drinkers attending Munich's annual Octoberfest.

Seventy-eight per cent of people believe Australia has a problem with excess drinking, a poll has found.

"Sometimes, doctors don't have the language to get patients ready for dying," a palliative care expert says.

The hope is this technology will one day be used to aid development of severely premature babies.

New research indicates emotional eating might be a result of parenting.

Doctors are warning parents not to swaddle their babies as an increasing number of infants in Australia are suffering hip dysplasia, which, left untreated, may lead to early osteoarthritis.

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

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.

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.