Womens Health

Mexico's Supreme Court has thrown out all federal criminal penalties for abortion, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate

Women need to be empowered with information about what could go wrong during childbirth so they're not meeting a doctor for the first time in a terrifying emergency situation,

A senior obstetrician says more than one in three women experience birth trauma in hospitals, and over-stretched rural health services can't keep up. Maria

When a rural town loses its maternity unit, operating theatres are often the next to go, then the emergency department, then local doctors and nurses. That's

Websites selling home fertility tests are making misleading claims about their usefulness and could influence plans to conceive, researchers warn. The 'egg

As a teenager, Lorna Berry had struggled with her weight and irregular menstrual cycle but it wasn't until her twenties that she knew something was wrong.

Pregnant women in a regional Victorian city face being sent up to 75km away to deliver their babies because of hospital staff shortages. Women approaching labour

Pharmacists in Western Australia can now prescribe antibiotics for urinary tract infections in women in a bid to ease pressure on general practitioners. Previously,

Women suffering from urinary tract infections (UTIs) can now receive treatment and medicine without first having to see a GP. A NSW government trial treating

A publicly-funded homebirth program is set to be introduced at Victoria's leading women's hospital. While the initiative is only in the planning stages,

After a record low, women are now lining up in droves for quick breast cancer screenings. More than 37,000 women had mammograms at BreastScreen NSW clinics

Activists and politicians are marking the one-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling that overturned a nationwide right to abortion with praise from some and protests

Abortion will be fully decriminalised in Western Australia under long-sought Labor government reforms intended to improve access to safe procedures. Health

More than a million Australians live with an eating disorder, with the impact of such disorders worsening during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet treatment options have remained

Mental health experts have called for increased domestic and family violence training for counsellors and therapists, with a focus on trauma-informed care, to avoid future

Remote, regional and rural maternity services will be bolstered with a $42 million boost in the Queensland budget to be handed down next week. The funding comes

All Australian public hospitals should be able to perform abortions to ensure regional and rural people have equal access to reproductive health care. A parliamentary

Queensland GPs continue to rail against a pharmacy program that offers "safe and effective care" of common urinary tract infections, calling on the state's new

The answer to the seemingly difficult question 'what do women want?' is not so elusive after all. When it comes to their health, particularly when pregnant,

Migrant women and international students are facing poorer reproductive health outcomes as advocates push for better access to care for all who need it. A parliamentary