Public Health

Australians buying a potentially dangerous eyeliner containing high levels of lead and other dangerous metals are being told to immediately stop using it.

A 19 per cent jump in alcohol-related assaults in the NT and 9 per cent increase in hospital admissions have sparked questions about whether the BDR is working.

Eight people have been sickened by salmonella after eating alfalfa sprouts from an Adelaide business in the past month, the state's health department warns.

Melbourne's safe injecting room will be expanded amid growing demand from drug users in the inner-city overdose hotspot. Melbourne's

Prescription opioids, such as oxycodone and codeine are involved in most accidental drug deaths and more people are overdosing on anxiety and insomnia drugs.

More Australians are dying after accidentally overdosing on prescription opioids such as oxycodone, a report has found. The number of Australians

A new study has found that patients who search their symptoms online before arriving at an emergency department are better able to communicate with doctors.

Victoria's biggest alcohol and drug service provider is calling on MPs to pledge extra money to help the state's troubled youth. Victorians

At least two people have been taken to hospital with serious lead poisoning after consuming a bad batch of opium "heavily contaminated" with lead.

A new report shows alcohol marketers are breaching rules in promoting products to children but are mostly willing to remedy any problems. Alcohol

Twenty-five Victorian health groups are reportedly expected to launch a plan on Thursday to make the state almost smoke-free by 2025. Victoria

Ice addicts can volunteer for a 12-week trial of medication that aims to help them break their illicit habit. The two-year N-ICE trial in Wollongong,

Adolescents who drink every week before the age of 17 are two to three times more likely to binge drink, drink drive, and be dependent on alcohol as adults compared with peers

A recall of frozen vegetables linked to a factory in Europe, amid fears they could be contaminated with listeria, has prompted calls from local growers for shoppers

Many smokers are unaware of the link between smoking and a range of health conditions, from infertility and diabetes to blindness, a new survey has found.

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has dismissed warnings from the peak body for GPs that patients should avoid health check ups at pharmacies.

A safe injecting room in Melbourne, the state's first, will open within days, Mental Health Minister Martin Foley says. Victoria's

South Australians are being warned not to eat a range of alfalfa sprout products after the sprouts were linked to 21 confirmed cases of Salmonella.

Queensland health is advising people to not eat fish caught in some waterways in the state's southeast as they may be contaminated with firefighting chemicals.

A study has detected potentially harmful levels of gluten in foods sold and served as 'gluten-free' across Melbourne. People with coeliac