A blood pressure test can feel confusing and damning, with cryptic results like 145/90 or 120/80. So what do these numbers mean? And is there anything you can do to change them and reduce your risk?
The anti-vaccination movement has been around since Edward Jenner scraped pus from the skin of sick cows. Here's what's driven the sentiment over the last two centuries.
Just weeks after researchers showed a cause-and-effect relationship between ultra-processed food and weight gain, two more studies have linked these foods with disease and death. So does our current focus on fat, sugar and salt need to shift?
Five-year-old Jaxson Hall's symptoms began with a full body rash and high temperatures. When his condition deteriorated and he was admitted to hospital, a flu test confirmed he had influenza-A.
Funding from a group of philanthropists including Bill Gates and MacKenzie Bezos will allow researchers in Melbourne to begin clinical trials of a cheap and easy eye test to detect Alzheimer's disease before the symptoms appear.
After a stranger's powerful words helped Natasha Young turn her life around, she started tying laminated notes with message of hope on the bridge. But Brisbane City Council is taking them down.
She suffered through an eating disorder, anxiety and depression in her late teens and early 20s, but Catriona Bisset has overcome it all to become our fastest 800m women's runner in years. Now, she's setting her sights on next year's Tokyo Olympics.
After backing it and then changing it, the Heart Foundation takes the step of fully removing a controversial ad campaign that suggested people who do not look after their health do not love their families.
MORNING BRIEFING: A power failure on Sydney's new Metro has caused train services to be delayed this morning, while the construction of the light rail line at Randwick causes a gas leak.
Smoking rates have dropped massively since the 70s — down from 40 per cent to only 14 per cent — but some areas of the country are not getting the message.
Hospital buildings where flammable cladding posed a major fire threat to the public in Sydney and across the state are identified in NSW Health safety documents, with Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital the only one where potentially combustible panels still need to be removed.
Randwick orthopaedic surgeon Angus Gray says Health Minister Brad Hazzard is wrong to characterise the issue as a dispute between doctors, saying it is instead about losing a critical patient service.
Victoria's Auditor-General hacks into some of the state's biggest health databases, exposing serious weaknesses in cybersecurity. It is now sounding a warning on a "significant and present risk" to patient data and hospital services.
After working in the industry for just three years, Connor Downes is the youngest Queensland stonemason to be diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease silicosis, as a major law firm prepares for a class action against the manufacturers of stone bench tops.
The State of Oklahoma sues one of the largest drug manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson, alleging it carried out deceptive marketing campaigns for painkillers and contributed to the country's opioid crisis.
Acclaimed brain surgeon Charlie Teo defends his prices, after a colleague criticised the "disturbing" number of online fundraising campaigns — some worth up to $120,000 — to access his life-saving expertise.
The Heart Foundation edits a confrontational ad campaign in the face of a social media storm over suggestions people who do not look after their heart health therefore do not love their families.
South Australia's peak doctors' union says it has taken its most "drastic action" ever by referring the state's health department to the Australian Human Rights Commission over "cruel" treatment of mental health patients.
You've had your flu shot appointment booked in for weeks and rescheduling would require some serious timetable jenga. But you've just come down with a cold — what do you do?
How will the Victorian Government find the cash to deliver its costly promises as stamp duty falls and federal funding hopes are not realised? Through what the Treasurer warned would be a "Budget of hard choices".
The Pope urges doctors and priests to support pregnancies being carried to term even if the foetus is likely to die and says opposing abortion is not a religious issue but a human one.
My mum had paranoid schizophrenia, but we never called it that. We didn't even call it mental illness — she was just 'sick'. I was an isolated kid with no way to cope — until my cassette player opened a magical window to a better place.
Makers of a 'near cure' for a deadly genetic disease have defended the cost of the drug, saying the one-off treatment is a better option than long-term alternatives.
New South Wales health authorities urge parents to get young children vaccinated against the flu as soon as possible after 37 confirmed deaths from the virus across the state so far this year.
Knowing what's going on inside your underwear is private, but understanding what happens down there is important for your health, and staying "fresh" is not always best.
Each year, millions of influenza vaccinations are distributed and then, like clockwork, another batch is brewed. So why does it change and how do scientists keep up?
