Public Health

Research and development during the coronavirus pandemic will help Australia tackle the next public health crisis, experts believe. Manufacturers have been

Victorian GPs and pharmacies will have enough vaccines to meet surging demand as a free jab program begins to combat a "nasty" influenza season, health authorities

Smoking could be banned from more public places in Queensland as the state tries to crack down on second-hand smoke, underage users, illegal tobacco and vaping.

Queensland doctors are urging the Albanese government to increase Medicare rebates and hold a national summit to resuscitate health-care systems that are no longer fit for

Queenslanders will have access to free flu jabs across the state as the government seeks to curb rising cases. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the initiative

Aged and healthcare leaders have urged an incoming Labor government to bolster support for the fight against COVID-19. The Australian Aged Care Collaboration

As election-day hotplates are fired up around the country, health authorities hope the occasion doesn't deliver an outbreak of food poisoning. A federal

The Queensland government has denied ambulance patients are being turned away from busy hospitals, but admits emergency department workers are "pretty much exhausted

Melbourne parents and carers have been asked to think twice about whether their children need to visit the emergency room, as the city's major children's hospital

Improving the care of older Australians in a bid to help them avoid hospital emergency departments will be the focus a new project that federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says

As Australia’s population ages, nurses recommend people start actioning Advance Care Planning in their early 40s, 15 years ahead of what GPs suggest and what the public

Almost half of all patients waited more than 30 minutes in an ambulance before being admitted to hospital in southeast Queensland in December. Queensland Ambulance

Health and community pharmacy peak bodies have formed a coalition urging parties to recognise medicine affordability as a key election issue. The Pharmacy Guild

Independent experts will investigate the death of a woman who suffered a heart attack after waiting for care at a regional West Australian hospital. The woman,

A new Darwin port industrial hub spruiked by the deputy prime minister could have severe impacts on human health, a Northern Territory government environmental report says.

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A new Health Centre to care for and support LGBTQ people to improve their health will be established by ACON as part of the first NSW LGBTIQ+ Health Strategy unveiled.

I’m writing this from the flooded far north coast of New South Wales, where all around me people are contending

The Liberal National Party has described the death of a Townsville woman reportedly left waiting more than two hours for an ambulance as "absolutely shocking".

The second outbreak of the Ebola disease this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo has officially been declared over, according to the World Health Organisation.