Health researchers have called on the government to consider suing tobacco companies to recover healthcare costs related to smoking - but it could be an expensive and lengthy legal move.

Seemingly out of nowhere, Emily Stokes woke up one day unable to move.

There are fears Australians have become complacent about sun protection.

Brielle Wellington was one week away from succumbing to the disability pension due to chronic pain. After years of being on the doctors' circuit stemming from breaking her leg twice while playing roller derby, she was left with debilitating pain and co-morbid depression.

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If we were serious about living to 100 we would phase out sugar and put statins in the water.

The study was looking for markers of risk that could act as early warning signs, the authors said.

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A devastating food labelling error that led to the death of a 10-year-old Melbourne boy has prompted the Victorian government to make it mandatory for hospitals to report cases of anaphylaxis.

Alarming scientific evidence is linking long-term anabolic steroid use to major health harms including heart attack.

It's like a library ... if the shelves were kept at -196 degrees and the books were samples of AN, blood and human tissue.

Elderly men and woman living in Australian nursing homes are being killed or fatally injured by their fellow ,residents.

Aboriginal Australians with kidney disease are in need of equitable access to life-saving treatments.

"He promised her he would never allow her to be put into nursing care. He set up the lounge room like a little hospital but eventually he was told she would have to go into care."

When a follower criticised an Instagram post by model Georgia Gibbs, posing with her best friend, she fired back.

Emily* ticked all the boxes. The kind of boxes no pregnant woman wants to tick.

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.

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.

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.

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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.