Public Health

A beauty therapist who once worked out of a suburban garage is spearheading a multimillion-dollar "cosmedics" push into the clinics and day spas of Europe.

A Sydney social media influencer who posed as a doctor online has been branded a risk to public health and safety. Dalya Karezi posted multiple videos to TikTok

There's a heightened risk of thunderstorm asthma due to a longer than usual grass pollen season in southern Australia. Ten people died and emergency departments

Joanne Mahony was a final year nursing student when she was posted to the Charleville base of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in rural Queensland two decades ago.

It's estimated NSW could save about 500 lives and up to $1.3 billion every year if authorities boosted influenza vaccination rates for people aged under 65.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has proposed banning younger generations from ever buying cigarettes, a move which would give the United Kingdom some of the world's toughest

A young child is one of two new tuberculosis cases identified in South Australia as health authorities scramble to get on top of separate outbreaks. The child

Researchers are one step closer to creating a blood test to diagnose concussion. A Monash University-led study assessed the blood results of patients who presented

A young child is among five people receiving treatment amid a tuberculosis outbreak in South Australia. The cluster in the state's eastern Murraylands region,

Women will have easier access to the pill in NSW and those with common skin conditions could be next as the state considers expanding pharmacy prescription trials.

Health leaders have penned an open letter pleading for the urgent opening of a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD after "countless" overdoses.

Health leaders are pleading with Victoria's premier to urgently open a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD after "countless" overdoses.

A national ban on retailers selling vapes should be urgently brought in to curb easy access to illicit products containing nicotine, the NSW premier says. The

Strapping young Brayden Chater was a great defender for his local rugby league team who loved to tackle. Which is ironic, because the lack of a meningococcal

British pharmacy chain Superdrug will stop selling single-use vapes, the company says, citing the environmental impact caused by their disposal and the popularity of the products

A mass gastro outbreak linked to a Melbourne function venue was likely caused by a common virus. Victoria's health department had been notified of the gastroenteritis

Katya Jaski was 12 when social media algorithms began feeding her dieting content. Two years later, she was diagnosed with anorexia.[subscribe]

India's southern state of Kerala has shut some schools, offices and public transport in a race to stop the spread of the rare and deadly Nipah virus, which has killed

Australians are failing to stick to a healthy and balanced diet, and junk food is a major culprit. That's the verdict from the national science agency CSIRO,

A new program aimed at improving sleep health in regional Indigenous communities is linking western science and traditional ways of knowing to better address the health condition