Public Health

The SA government has revised its major new health plan by retaining Noarlunga emergency department, but the Repatriation hospital will still to be closed.

My first public health research position years ago involved gathering injury surveillance statistics in the Emergency Department (ED) of a major metropolitan hospital. My

A handful of Australian and New Zealand nurses are being deployed to Vanuatu as part of international disaster response efforts in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Pam.

A New Zealand nurse who recently returned from Sierra Leone has been officially cleared of the Ebola

Prescription drugs should be monitored in real time to stop overdose tragedies, Heath Ledger's father says. Heath Ledger's father hopes

Brisbane's conference and exhibition centre, which hosted the G20 summit of world leaders last year, has been linked to a second salmonella outbreak.

Researchers found chronic users of paracetamol may increase their risk of death, or kidney, intestinal and heart problems. Doctors may be underestimating

Nurses, midwives and GPs have welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to shelve the embattled GP co-payment. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

The Medicare co-payment has been scrapped almost a year after it was first mooted. The federal government has scrapped its unpopular plan for

A senior Liberal frontbencher says there will be significant changes to the government's unpopular GP co-payment. The Abbott government

A medical conference has heard the number of psychoactive substances that can be abused is booming, and causing more drug deaths in Australia. There is a boom

NSW Health and the Royal Botanic Gardens have issued a warning following the rise of wild mushroom poisonings in NSW. [subscribe] Ten

Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and Lorillard have agreed to pay $US100 million to settle 400 lawsuits seeking damages for injuries caused by smoking.

More than 450 trained and accredited pharmacist vaccinators in community pharmacies across New Zealand will play a vital role in this year’s influenza campaign.

Despite the huge numbers of people now using mobile phones, there hasn't been a corresponding increase in brain cancers, researchers say.

NSW Labor says it will spend $430 million to upgrade Westmead Hospital if it wins government, without leasing poles and wires. [subscribe]

Authorities are examining how berries contaminated with hepatitis A ended up being imported into Australia. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has

Scientists have found out why smoking cannabis can cause over-eating, with marijuana working on the part of the brain that normally suppresses appetite.

The WA Department of Health has confirmed the state's first case of frozen berry-related hepatitis A. The first case of hepatitis A believed

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says Labor doesn't know whether it will keep Queensland's Wait Time Guarantee policy for public hospital patients.