Public Health

According to popular theory, men live shorter lives than women because they take bigger risks, have more dangerous jobs, drink and smoke more, and are poor at seeking advice

On February 21 NSW Health issued a warning

The report from NSW's special commission of inquiry into the drug ice has been been made public a month after it was handed to the government.

Tougher laws for online alcohol sales are needed to prevent under-18s and people with an alcohol dependency from buying liquor at the touch of a button, UNSW public health

The increasing popularity of illicit drug GBH has prompted a report into related overdose deaths with clinicians concerned users underestimate its potency.

Kiwi PM Jacinda Ardern says her government is looking at relief or support to at least three sectors hit by the coronavirus; tourism, forestry and education.

An Otago researcher is setting the wheels in motion to seek out much-needed change in the way osteoarthritis, which affects increasing numbers of people, is treated in New

The prime minister has warned of a weighty economic hit on the Australian economy amid high level uncertainty about the coronavirus outbreak.

NSW Health has issued a warning against "false and misleading rumours, posts on social media and inaccurate reports" regarding the spread of coronavirus.

An eight-year-old boy travelling in Australia has the coronavirus, taking the infection rate to 13 people, as the government gets ready for more evacuees.

The first case of the deadly coronavirus has been confirmed in Queensland, and it joins the four cases in NSW and two in Victoria. The first

An Australian citizen in Wuhan says his mother is terrified he may be quarantined on Christmas Island over coronavirus fears. Daniel Ou Yang

Australian authorities are expected to head to Hubei province this week to work on a plan to evacuate about 400 people trapped in the quarantined city.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has today recommended allowing greater flexibility in prescribing for smoking cessation pharmacotherapy.

A Queensland MP is disgusted by a hoax health warning advising people to avoid Brisbane suburbs with large Chinese populations due to the risk of coronavirus.

Australian health authorities are warning that the fifth person to test positive to the deadly coronavirus

NSW authorities are expected to on Monday confirm the fifth case of coronavirus in the country after a patient tested positive during preliminary exams.

New data has revealed that the poor and the most disadvantaged in Australia have increasingly worse health outcomes. The gap in the quality

Australian scientists have identified 107 genes that increase the risk of someone developing glaucoma. Australian researchers have pinpointed

With major cities across Australia choking on thick clouds of hazardous smoke, an expert from The Australian National University (ANU) has released freely accessible new factsheets