Health Policy

A second Australian jurisdiction has moved to ban puberty blockers for transgender children, taking aim at what its government labelled an ideologically driven treatment.

Potentially life-saving safety equipment for seriously ill children has been missing from a controversial hospital where a toddler and newborn died after waiting for care.

The US Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19

Anthony Albanese says he still has his eye on cost-of-living pressures as a promised reduction in medicine costs nears fruition. As parliament resumed on Monday,

Australians will pay no more than $25 for selected medicines for the first time in more than 20 years under a proposal to be brought before parliament. It will

A plan to boost the number of fully bulk-billing general practice clinics is likely to fall dramatically short of forecasts, a healthcare directory operator warns.

Being pushed off a playground fort and breaking his arm at age nine - twice in one month - might just have saved Matthew Larman's life. The first time,

Voters are being sold different plans to boost bulk-billed GP visits as campaigning for a snap state poll enters its final week. Tasmania's major party

Overcharging on medical bills and rorting the public health system is costing taxpayers up to $5000 a minute, a health union says. But the peak professional

The ACT budget has a health problem. When Treasurer Chris Steel, fresh in the job after Labor's seventh straight election win, provided a mid-year budget

A health watchdog has issued its first national public warning amid fears a suspended dentist facing a criminal trial may still be carrying out dental work.

Gay and bisexual men as well as transgender women will soon be able to donate blood and plasma after rule changes to make the service more inclusive. Lifeblood,

Fewer than 200 non-prescription vapes are being sold through pharmacists each day, fuelling speculation a massive black market continues to thrive. Landmark

High specialist medical costs cause almost two million Australians to delay or skip appointments, but a report suggests stripping public funding to doctors charging excessive

Treating and managing ADHD will soon be as simple as visiting your GP. Medication prescription changes will result in many Australians living with the chronic

The World Health Organisation says circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 has been detected in stool specimens of two healthy children in Papua New Guinea on May 9.

Political leaders are lamenting the "Americanisation" of the debate around a legislative push to increase access to abortion pills in Australia's most populous

US President Donald Trump has signed a wide-reaching executive order directing drug makers to lower the prices of their medicines to align with what other countries pay that

Drug makers have been warned that US President Donald Trump's administration is considering linking United States medicine prices to lower amounts paid by other developed

The deaths of two children at a controversy-plagued hospital have sparked an emotional exchange over government inaction. A scathing report from the NSW auditor-general