The ACT has resisted signing up to a new hospital funding agreement.

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Bizarre health claims such as "tonifies kidney essence" are set to become TGA and government-approved under new laws, horrifying doctors.

A new study suggests the significant effects of concussion on the brain can linger for decades after players retire.

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Doctors are being urged to try to avoid arthroscopic knee surgery for patients with osteoarthritis because it often causes more harm than good.

A "veil of secrecy" hangs over the hospitals and clinicians that have the highest complication rates and which hospitals are the safest, according to a new report

Children whose mothers were prescribed antibiotics during pregnancy are up to a 20 per cent higher risk of being hospitalised for infections, a new study shows.

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Sydney dentist allegedly treated at least one patient after he was investigated and barred from practising.

The troubled former child sporting prodigy is not an archetype Tomic created or can trademark, nor is it a harbinger for mental health problems or an excuse for bad behaviour in adulthood.

In the eyes of the legal system, Hadiza Bawa-Garba was a junior doctor who caused the death of a little boy named Jack and fully deserving of her manslaughter conviction. But doctors around the world disagree.

Potential to accurately identify people at risk of developing Alzheimer's up to 30 years before full-blown symptoms emerge.

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The number of Australians living with or after cancer is expected to increase by 72 per cent in the next 22 years, according to a report released by the Cancer Council Australia.

Roughly half of people classified as having complete spinal cord injuries may still have surviving sensory nerve connections sending messages to the brain, a new Australian study suggests.

​January is the time we tend to contemplate what we want to achieve in the upcoming year.

An accumulation of mutated stem cells in bone marrow has been found to increases a person's risk of dying within a decade, usually from a heart attack or stroke, by 40 or 50 per cent.

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Sophie Martyr was just 13-years-old when she learnt she had brain cancer and was asked to make a decision about whether she wanted to have children in the future.

It's proving difficult for Australians to cut salt from their diets, with Aussie men consuming more than twice the daily recommended intake. 

Flu cases doubled last year but cases in aged care homes dropped.

More than a year after it announced it was opening up five regional hospitals to tenders that would have then privately built and run, the state government quietly decided to keep the last entirely in public hands on Friday.

The renegade researchers and vigilantes who exposed Australia's drug problem

Dentists are pleading with parents to cut the amount of sugar in their children's lunch boxes, as figures show NSW is in the grips of a child tooth decay crisis.

Parents who give alcohol to their teenagers on special occasions aren't heading off binge drinking. They're part of the problem, a new study shows.

The study found that military families sent to areas with higher obesity rates were more likely to be overweight - but the 'contagion' goes both ways.

Health groups have raised alarm about a new bill that, if passed, would see the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) abandon the pre-approval process of advertisements for complementary and alternative medicines, potentially risking lives.

All NSW children between six months and five years old will be eligible for free flu vaccines, after a horror season killed two preschoolers.

Archie Innes lives in a world he cannot see.

Do you keep forgetting to take your medication? Sydney start-up Perx has developed a solution, and it involves free movie tickets, fuel vouchers and even charitable donations.

Why two-thirds of children and teenagers are getting a ride to school in their parents' cars.

Prescription drug overdoses now kill more Australians than car crashes. Here, in the first of a three-part series, we look at the story of one young man and the gaps in the health system that failed to prevent his death.

Australians will consume less alcohol and tobacco, but obesity levels are set to rise as people exercise less.