Talks aimed at reviving the stalled Trans Pacific Partnership between Australia and ten other nations could add as much as $100 million to the cost of the Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Ros Pesman says luck is why she is one of the rare few to survive pancreatic cancer. A new study has discovered that "luck" is a unique genetic quirk that caused her cancer to mimic an infectious disease.
How healthy people are being denied life and travel insurance because genomic testing results show they are at risk of diseases they may never develop.
Kissing could be a factor driving the soaring rates of gonorrhoea as more young Australians have oral sex.
Kids missing out on early intervention under NDIS that could stop them relying on welfare for the rest of their lives.
A Queensland nurse who went to work five times over the legal alcohol limit has been fined $2000 for professional misconduct.
Two-year-old Skylar Lawrence died of meningococcal B. Her family want the vaccine added to the national immunisation program.
The number of Australians diagnosed with gonorrhoea has increased by 63 per cent in the past five years, according to an annual report on STIs.
Australia's drug and medical device watchdog, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, needs a complete overhaul to distance it from the health industry and allow consumers to sue it for negligence, say academics and consumer advocates.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved a drug which can extend the life of sufferers of spinal muscular atrophy.
A Brisbane-based charity offering free mobile laundry services to the homeless has announced its expansion into regional Queensland to combat a skin condition that has been called "epidemic".
Dr Mark Magnusson operated on two patients with botched breast implants before lunch. The bogus title 'cosmetic surgeon' is the reason why.
A delusional patient at a secure unit in Melbourne ambushed a nurse and bashed him with a motorcyle battery.
Australian Unity will return $620,000 to policyholders after it made changes to dental benefits that it promised it wouldn't make.
It's been described as the one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time. All of a sudden, a patient is struck down by blindness. Others are paralysed. Some endure violent fits.
Rableen was in dire need of a blood transfusion, but there was no pediatric intensive care unit.
The IVF industry has been accused of increasingly placing profits over patients.
A former Mater Hospital anaesthetic technician faced court last week after allegedly taking fentanyl from operating trollies and replacing it with saline solution.
Health insurance premiums have been going up by about 5 per cent each year. Funds are now under pressure to limit it to 2 per cent.
The federal government has approved MBS subsidies for 33 new treatments recommended by the Medical Services Advisory Committee.
Bioethicist finds removing reproductive tissue 'ethically permissible, but not ethically required'.
Just waiting 60 seconds before clamping a premature baby's umbilical cord can dramatically improve its chances of survival, Australian researchers say.
Australia's Chief Medical Officer has categorically rejected claims a "budget" flu vaccine is partly responsible for this year's horror flu season.
More drug-resistant golden staph infections are occurring in the community rather than in hospital settings, with researchers turning their attention to antibiotic overuse.
Steve van Aperen is the human lie detector who catches serial killers. Now he's helping GPs unmask lying patients.
Three quarters of Australians whose spouse suffers from insomnia are giving misguided advice that may actually make the sleeplessness worse, experts say.
The Health Minister says the Pharmacy Guild has 'reversed its position' in the fight to water down the impending changes to codeine-based painkillers.
The report of the inquiry into the rules governing pharmacies and what they get paid is secret, for now.
Medical students have defied their seniors by throwing their support behind voluntary assisted dying.
Mental health nurses have described fearing for their safety, and working on wards ill-equipped to manage violent or aggressive psychiatric and drug-affected patients without the use of seclusion and restraint.
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