Parents need boost to lift flagging vaccination rate

Date of Posting: 30-09-2025

Parents need practical strategies such as easier access to appointments and bulk-billing to help reverse a concerning decline in childhood vaccination rates, research has found. The National Vaccination Insights project found out-of-pocket costs, Read More...

'Frustrating' chronic condition impacting Aussie women

Last Updated: 30-09-2025

Australian women are twice as likely as men to experience migraines, with sufferers and researchers saying investment is needed to find treatments that would help close the significant health blind spot. One in three Australian women is living wit Read More...

A new Ebola outbreak in Congo kills dozens

Date of Posting: 30-09-2025

As a deadly new Ebola outbreak kills dozens in southern Congo, health authorities and organisations are sounding the alarm, warning they lack the funds and resources to mount an effective response to the crisis. The World Health Organisation said Read More...

Frontline Burnout: Why Health Workers Are Still Struggling to Recover

Last Updated: 30-09-2025

Five years on from the first COVID-19 lockdowns, Australia’s health system has moved beyond crisis mode — but for many frontline staff, the exhaustion never really ended. Pandemic surges may have eased, yet the backlog of delayed care, ch Read More...

Digital Mental Health: Can Apps and AI Bridge the Gap?

Last Updated: 30-09-2025

Australia’s mental health system continues to face mounting pressure, with demand for services outstripping supply. Waiting lists for psychologists can stretch for months, while cost and geography remain barriers for many, particularly in rural Read More...

TikTok Therapy and Online Mental Health Trends: What Are Young Australians Really Learning?

Last Updated: 30-09-2025

In recent years, TikTok has become much more than a platform for dance challenges and viral trends. For many young Australians, it’s also a place to learn about mental health, seek advice and find community. With mental health issues on the ris Read More...

Sleep Deprivation and Shift Work: The Silent Mental Health Crisis Among Australian Nurses

Last Updated: 30-09-2025

For many nurses in Australia, sleep isn’t a guarantee — it’s a luxury. Long night shifts, back-to-back rosters, and the constant pressure of caring for others often mean rest comes last on the list. While it’s easy to shrug of Read More...

Silent Grief: Supporting Mental Health After Early Pregnancy Loss in Australia

Last Updated: 30-09-2025

Early pregnancy loss, known as a miscarriage, is an experience that affects many people in Australia, yet it often remains a silent grief that goes unspoken. For most, the pain goes beyond the physical. The emotional toll can be long-lasting and isol Read More...

Indigenous Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing

Date of Posting: 30-09-2025

On a cool morning in Arnhem Land, a group of young people walk quietly across red earth alongside their Elders. The day begins not with therapy sessions or paperwork, but with ceremony, song, and time on Country. Here, healing is not delivered in a c Read More...

No autism link with paracetamol use in pregnancy: WHO

Date of Posting: 29-09-2025

No conclusive scientific evidence confirms a possible link between autism and the use of paracetamol during pregnancy, the World Health Organisation says. No consistent association between autism and paracetamol use had been established, the WHO s Read More...

Minister rebukes Trump for 'worrying' autism claims

Date of Posting: 29-09-2025

Australia's health minister has rapped Donald Trump over the knuckles for spreading "worrying" unproven claims on autism. Flanked by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US president baselessly linked autism to the use of parace Read More...

Gambling harm impacting mental health and relationships

Date of Posting: 29-09-2025

More than three million Australian adults have experienced harm from gambling in the past year, with participation on the rise and punters losing significant amounts of money. A study of almost 4000 people by the Australian Gambling Research Centr Read More...

Aboriginal people report less respectful hospital care

Date of Posting: 28-09-2025

First Nations patients are less likely have positive experiences of care in hospital than their non-Indigenous counterparts, but Aboriginal health workers can make a significant difference, a report has found. In 2024, 60 per cent of Indigenous pa Read More...

Sudan cholera rate rising at 'alarming' rate, says UN

Date of Posting: 28-09-2025

The number of reported cholera cases is increasing in Darfur and more than 3000 people across all of Sudan have died from the illness over the last 14 months of civil war, the UN health agency said. The current outbreak of the bacterial infection Read More...

EU, UK counter Trump warnings on autism and pregnancy

Date of Posting: 28-09-2025

European Union and British health agencies confirmed the safety of paracetamol during pregnancy, disputing a warning from US President Donald Trump linking the popular pain medication to autism. The World Health Organisation said evidence of a lin Read More...

'No evidence': medical experts reject autism claims

Date of Posting: 26-09-2025

Australia's top medical authorities have emphatically rejected Donald Trump's claim of a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism. Chief medical officer Michael Kidd and the Therapeutic Goods Administration joined other global Read More...

Coroner probes death of newborn baby in hospital

Date of Posting: 26-09-2025

Hugo McGregor lived for only five days before his parents made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support. An inquest into Hugo's hospital death is underway in the Queensland coroners court at Townsville, detailing the string of p Read More...

Trump links autism to Tylenol, claim disputed by medics

Date of Posting: 26-09-2025

President Donald Trump has linked autism to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol, elevating a claim not backed by scientific evidence to the forefront of US health policy. In an extraordinary news conference at the White House, the Republica Read More...

Vaccine site could save Australia billions in pandemic

Date of Posting: 25-09-2025

Australia's first fully integrated mRNA vaccine facility could help the nation avoid billions in costs from the next pandemic, as Moderna defends a controversial government deal as a necessary investment. Having an onshore capability to manufa Read More...

Aged care operator's shares dive on funding expectation

Last Updated: 25-09-2025

Shares in Regis Healthcare have plunged after the aged care operator said the government's latest funding package fell short of expectations. Regis said on Monday its review found the government's funding package announced on September 12 Read More...

Review highlights risks from chemicals in plastics

Date of Posting: 25-09-2025

Early exposure to chemicals found in plastics can pose significant health risks to children that last into adulthood, according to an analysis of hundreds of recent studies published in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. The rev Read More...

Australia nears an end to HIV after 40 years of testing

Date of Posting: 23-09-2025

Forty years after HIV screening first became available in Australia, the nation is closer than ever to eliminating transmission of the virus - a milestone unimaginable in the dark early years of the epidemic. New data from the Kirby Institute at t Read More...

US vaccine advisers abandon broad COVID shot support

Date of Posting: 23-09-2025

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's new vaccine advisers have confusion to COVID-19 vaccination season by declining to recommend them for anyone and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot. Until now, the vaccinations had been recomm Read More...

Parents' emotional plea after newborn's hospital death

Date of Posting: 23-09-2025

A couple who lost their daughter to an undiagnosed heart defect hours after her birth hope an inquest can ensure other babies don't suffer a similar fate. Thea Flaskett died at Redcliffe Hospital, north of Brisbane, at 4.17am on September 11, Read More...

Bitter pill as drug testing is outlawed

Date of Posting: 22-09-2025

Queensland has become the first Australian state to ban pill testing, with medical experts warning the move could cost lives. The legal crackdown follows state government moves to scrap $1.5 million in public funding for pill testing services run Read More...

Stroke 'miracle cure' labelled as effective as placebo

Date of Posting: 22-09-2025

A so-called miracle cure for stroke is no more effective than a placebo, a study has found. The treatment, known as perispinal etanercept, involves injecting an arthritis medication into the back of a patient's neck and tilting them downwards Read More...

Mist opportunities: nasal spray to boost flu immunity

Date of Posting: 22-09-2025

Needle-phobic children will be able to access free flu vaccinations in the form of a nasal spray to overcome low vaccination rates. Parents in Queensland and NSW will be able to access a nasal-spray vaccination ahead of the next flu season in a bi Read More...

Warning over rising rates of condition impacting women

Date of Posting: 21-09-2025

Too many Australians are living with undetected sexually transmitted infections with experts urging regular testing to address rising rates of some diseases. In 2024, there were almost 6000 diagnoses of syphilis and more than 44,000 for gonorrhoea Read More...

Ebola vaccinations begin in the Congo

Date of Posting: 21-09-2025

The World Health Organization says it has begun vaccinating frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasai Province, where an outbreak has been declared. The WHO said a Read More...

US officials commission research on vaccines and autism

Date of Posting: 21-09-2025

Federal health officials intend to award a contract to an engineering school to investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations and autism, according to a government procurement notice. The New York based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Read More...

Public hospitals risk bleeding doctors without support

Date of Posting: 19-09-2025

Public hospitals are crumbling under logjams and workforce attrition as doctors reject a government pay offer. Hospital registrars and career medical officers in particular are at significant risk of burnout after enduring poor working conditions Read More...

Jury finds aged care home not guilty of COVID-19 risk

Date of Posting: 19-09-2025

An aged care provider has been found not guilty of placing residents at risk by not properly training its staff before a deadly COVID-19 outbreak. Heritage Care faced a County Court jury trial after 34 residents died at its Epping Gardens home, in Read More...

Government put on notice over nursing home bed block

Date of Posting: 19-09-2025

A lack of aged care spots is leaving thousands of older Australians stuck in hospital and "effectively homeless", as state and territory health officials urge the federal government to do more. A paper being presented at a meeting of sta Read More...

Teething Gel Pulled from Sale in Adelaide Over Safety Concerns

Last Updated: 19-09-2025

Any parent who’s been through the teething stage knows how tough it can be. Those tiny teeth pushing through tender gums can cause endless crying, dribbling, red cheeks and sleepless nights. For babies, it’s uncomfortable and sometimes pa Read More...

Call for 'faster, fairer, more affordable' ADHD care

Last Updated: 18-09-2025

Healthcare professionals call for nationwide rules that would allow GPs to diagnose and treat ADHD to help avoid high costs and delays for patients and families. Ahead of a meeting of state and federal health ministers in Perth on Friday, medical Read More...

Ban upheld on Medicaid funds going to abortion provider

Date of Posting: 18-09-2025

A US appeals court panel has allowed President Donald Trump's administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue. A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be Read More...

'Practical' plans to prevent suicide pass parliament

Last Updated: 16-09-2025

Suicide prevention will not be a box-ticking exercise under plans to hold state debt collectors and government agencies accountable for reducing deaths. Strategies would focus on ways they could make a difference for people experiencing suicidal ide Read More...

Dire dementia prognosis prompts political action demand

Last Updated: 16-09-2025

Australians are dying from dementia more than any other disease, as advocates warn the number of people with the disease could exceed one million without government intervention. Dementia accounted for almost 17,400 deaths in 2023, equivalent to a Read More...

Hospital admissions jump during 'difficult' winter

Last Updated: 14-09-2025

Hospital admissions have reached record levels in Australia's largest health system, but further highs are expected following a "very difficult" winter. More than 515,000 patients were admitted to NSW hospitals in the three months to J Read More...

How Emerging Trends Shape Regional Agriculture in NSW

Last Updated: 12-09-2025

Regional agriculture in New South Wales is evolving at a remarkable pace, with local farmers embracing new technologies and adapting to shifting market demands. As communities across the Riverina and beyond look to the future, understanding these eme Read More...