Health Policy

New Zealand has banned the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008 in a landmark attempt to eradicate smoking. The legislation, which passed late on Tuesday,

Life-saving defibrillators will be mandatory in all public buildings, including schools, libraries, sporting facilities, theatres and prisons, under nation-leading legislation

Australians are at risk of wasting hundreds of dollars on intravenous infusion "cocktails" marketed with dodgy and misleading promises, the medical regulator warns.

Medicines for migraines, stomach ulcers and other conditions will become cheaper next month as the Albanese government adds new treatments to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Health leaders are calling for the rapid rollout of a climate-health action plan as floods and extreme heat kill Australians. Forty health and medical organisations

More than 130,000 Australians were treated for alcohol and other drugs during the pandemic, marking a 22 per cent increase over six years, new data shows. People

A first-term South Australian MP has been appointed the state's new advocate for suicide prevention. Nadia Clancy will work alongside Health Minister Chris

Etienne Gould-Noonan was born 14 weeks early, the size of a Coke bottle. His parents, Carmen Gould and Jonathon Noonan, couldn't donate blood to their desperately

The legal age of sale for cigarettes in England should be raised by one year every year until eventually no one can buy tobacco products, a government-commissioned review

Austria is relaxing its blood donation rules, which at present stop many gay and bisexual men as well all trans people from donating, Health Minister Johannes Rauch has announced.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has used a campaign trip to the Northern Territory to announce significant funding for Medicare and to reiterate his support for an Indigenous

Health practitioners will be more closely scrutinised and those who pose a risk to community health and safety face new punishments under proposed Queensland laws, set to

Western Australia's government will pour a further $252 million into emergency departments amid warnings there is no quick fix to near-record ambulance ramping.

Federal parliament has legalised partial DNA donations capable of stopping deadly mitochondrial disease in babies. The laws have been labelled as game changing,

Thousands of doctors and nurses from across the globe have revealed exactly what it will take to fill gaps and future-proof today’s healthcare system, in a new report

Australians are signing up to private health insurance in record numbers to avoid hospital waiting lists. Six consecutive quarters of membership growth has

South Australia's doctors have called for major investment to improve a health "system in crisis", urging voters to carefully scrutinise promises from political

In the past two years the NSW government has committed more than $4 billion to the state's health system to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Labor has pledged to recruit 300 more nurses for South Australian hospitals if the party wins the March state election. The promise includes 212 extra staff

Elective surgery will scale up again in Victoria as the state lifts its code brown pandemic alert for the health system. The unprecedented alert was issued