Bursts of exercise 'could slash risk of major diseases'

Date of Posting: 30-03-2026

Short bursts of daily exercise, even a few minutes - such as running for the bus - could slash the risk of developing diseases such as arthritis, heart disease and dementia. Taking the stairs, playing actively with children or walking quickly betw Read More...

'Poorly designed' minor drug diversion scheme panned

Date of Posting: 30-03-2026

Less than a quarter of people eligible for a diversion program for minor drug possession incidents are having their matters dealt with outside of court. Crime statistics analysis from NSW, the last Australian jurisdiction to introduce a drug diver Read More...

Balcony likely to blame for hospital's fungal outbreak

Date of Posting: 29-03-2026

A hospital balcony adjacent to a construction site likely caused a cluster of fungal infections that killed two patients and has left one in intensive care for months. Six patients in the transplant unit of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, located in Read More...

Cancer survivor's parents walk to give others hope

Date of Posting: 29-03-2026

Marina Forde and Tom Christy would love to take their 22-month-old son Flynn with them for a long walk this Sunday but the energetic toddler is unlikely to co-operate. "It's Flynn's world and we live in it," Ms Forde tells AAP.[s Read More...

Call to label domestic violence a public health crisis

Date of Posting: 29-03-2026

Gendered violence must be recognised as preventable, says a scholar ship-winning student as she joins a next-generation chorus of doctors urging governments to respond to the crisis. Gender-based abuse is the leading cause of death and disability Read More...

Converting Overseas Nursing Qualifications to Work in Australia

Last Updated: 27-03-2026

Australia has long been an attractive destination for skilled healthcare professionals. With a high standard of living, competitive salaries, and a strong healthcare system, it’s no surprise that many internationally qualified nurses look to Au Read More...

VERIGRAFT Advances First Potential Curative Treatment for CVI into Pivotal Phase II III Trial

Date of Posting: 27-03-2026

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- VERIGRAFT, a Swedish clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering personalized, fully biological therapies, today announced the initiation of a pivotal Phase II/III trial of its P-TEV (personalize Read More...

Sunscreen overhaul unlikely to fix 'trust deficit'

Date of Posting: 27-03-2026

A sweeping review of sunscreen regulations aims to restore consumer confidence in popular products, but some experts fear it may be too little too late. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has begun consultations on a new set of rules designed to Read More...

Hidden breast cancer costs increase burden of disease

Date of Posting: 27-03-2026

Breast cancer patients are facing wide-ranging financial, emotional and social burdens following their diagnosis as many grapple with significant up-front costs alongside a disease that often strikes without warning. More than 21,000 Australian wo Read More...

Regulating AI in Australian Healthcare: Who Is Accountable When Algorithms Make Decisions?

Last Updated: 25-03-2026

Artificial intelligence is no longer experimental in Australian healthcare. AI systems are being used to summarise clinical documentation, assist with imaging interpretation, support risk stratification and optimise operational workflows. As adoption Read More...

Digital Health and Equity: Are We Closing or Widening the Gap?

Last Updated: 25-03-2026

Digital health has been framed as a solution to many of Australia’s healthcare pressures including distance, workforce shortages, rising demand and system inefficiency. Telehealth, remote monitoring, patient portals and AI-enabled triage tools Read More...

Cybersecurity in Healthcare: The Clinical Risks Behind the Headlines

Date of Posting: 25-03-2026

When a hospital system goes down, the first images that come to mind are often technical: blank screens, frozen logins, IT teams working overnight. But in healthcare, cyber incidents are not just technical failures. They are clinical events. Digit Read More...

Discovery Life Sciences and Mindpeak Partner to Bring AI Precision to Cancer Biomarker Testing in Gl

Date of Posting: 25-03-2026

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. and HAMBURG, Germany, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Inconsistent biomarker interpretation across pathologists remains one of the more stubborn challenges in clinical trial development, contributing to variability in patient stratifi Read More...

Continuity Biosciences and Breakthrough T1D Collaborate to Advance NICHE Cell-Therapy Platform Towa

Date of Posting: 25-03-2026

CARY, N.C. and NEW YORK, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuity Biosciences and Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) advocacy organization, today announced a strategic collaboration to advance Continuity's NICHE® cell Read More...

Leaders urged to stomach junk food tax to save lives

Date of Posting: 25-03-2026

More than 200,000 lives and billions of dollars in health costs could be saved if political leaders developed an appetite to tax unhealthy foods, according to fresh research. The federal government is being called upon to consider a 20 per cent ta Read More...

When Birth Doesn't Go to Plan: How Midwives Support Parents Through Disappointment and Grief

Last Updated: 24-03-2026

For many parents, pregnancy is accompanied by a mental picture of how birth will unfold. It might be a calm labour, minimal intervention, immediate skin-to-skin contact, or simply the hope of feeling involved and heard. When birth deviates from those Read More...

Skill Mix on the Maternity Ward: What Midwives Want Other Health Professionals to Understand

Last Updated: 24-03-2026

Modern maternity care is delivered by multidisciplinary teams working under pressure, within complex systems, and across shifting scopes of practice. While collaboration is essential to safe care, midwives often find that their role — and the f Read More...

Midwives and Moral Distress: Navigating Care When Systems Don't Align with Values

Last Updated: 24-03-2026

Midwifery is a profession built on advocacy, relational care, and respect for women’s autonomy. Midwives are trained to support families through pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period in ways that prioritise dignity, informed choice, and tr Read More...

Parkinson's action plan aims to brain growing disease

Date of Posting: 24-03-2026

It's the world's fastest growing neurological disorder, but a landmark plan could help put Australia on the frontline in the battle against the disease. More than 200,000 Australians live with Parkinson's disease - more than breast can Read More...

Celosia Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 1b Clinical Trial of CTx1000 in Amyotrop

Date of Posting: 24-03-2026

SYDNEY, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Celosia Therapeutics, an Australian biotech company developing advanced gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced dosing of the first participant in its Phase 1b KOANEWA trial evaluating CTx Read More...

Prestige Biopharma Announces Positive Topline Results from Comparative SAMSON-II Study for HD204, a

Date of Posting: 24-03-2026

Primary endpoint of Overall Response Rate at Week 18 met, demonstrating clinical equivalence in patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer SINGAPORE, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Prestige Biopharma today announced positive to Read More...

Rural doctor missed vital call in Indigenous death

Date of Posting: 23-03-2026

The family of a woman who died in an under-equipped rural clinic say her death is an example of the health inequities still experienced by Indigenous Australians. Warrimay woman Eve Brown died of shock on July 2, 2021, after an undiagnosed spleen Read More...

Multiple-birth parents tumble through cracks in support

Date of Posting: 23-03-2026

Parents of twins, triplets and more are calling for extra support in the upcoming federal budget as they face increased financial and mental health burdens. Twin mum Elise Devenny says her experience of parenthood has been magical, but gruelling a Read More...

Growing obesity crisis tanking Aussie productivity

Date of Posting: 23-03-2026

Australia is staring down a $90 billion-a-year obesity crisis by 2032 but spending below the OECD average on preventative health to tackle it. Two-thirds of those costs will be felt in days off work, premature death and other productivity losses, Read More...

Scottish MPs reject euthanasia bill for terminally ill

Date of Posting: 20-03-2026

Scotland's Parliament has rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives. Members of the Edinburgh-based legislature voted 69 to 57 against a bill that Read More...

Diet rich in veg and berries 'could slow brain ageing'

Date of Posting: 20-03-2026

A Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables, berries, nuts and olive oil could slow down brain ageing, according to a long-term study. Experts found an effect across more than a decade in people whose diet contained lots of vegetables, fruit, nuts, fi Read More...

UK bids to contain meningitis outbreak after two deaths

Date of Posting: 19-03-2026

Five new cases of meningitis have been found in Kent in southeast England, taking the total ‌to 20 in what has been called an "unprecedented" outbreak that has already killed two young ‌people. All of those affected who are cur Read More...

Scientists make Parkinson's drug from plastic bottles

Date of Posting: 18-03-2026

Scientists have discovered a way of making a drug for Parkinson's disease from used plastic bottles, saying it shows how waste materials can be "reimagined as valuable resources". Developed by a team at the University of Edinburgh, t Read More...

'Gaslit': government under fire over algal bloom claims

Date of Posting: 18-03-2026

A government has been accused of "gaslighting" the public over a harmful algal bloom ahead of a state election, sparking calls for an inquiry. South Australia's opposition says the state government's denials that a harmful algal Read More...

Medicinal cannabis concerns half-baked, advocates say

Date of Posting: 18-03-2026

Calls to scrap medicinal cannabis for mental health treatment are premature, advocates say, as an Australian study casts doubt on the drug's effectiveness. More than one million Australians have used medicinal cannabis at some stage, mostly in Read More...

Big measles outbreak affecting London children under 10

Last Updated: 17-03-2026

A "big measles outbreak" in parts of London is affecting unvaccinated children under the age of 10, the UK Health Security Agency has confirmed. It said the outbreak in schools and nurseries in north-east London had left some children re Read More...

Government to pay $125m for COVID business settlement

Date of Posting: 16-03-2026

Businesses impacted by one of the world's longest COVID-19 lockdowns will receive $125 million from taxpayers after a state government agreed to settle the matter. A class action was brought in the Supreme Court on behalf of businesses impacte Read More...

No to the pushback: global spotlight on gender equality

Date of Posting: 15-03-2026

Australia's work towards gender equality is being watched closely by other nations as women and girls around the world face a rollback of hard-won rights. The 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the UN Read More...

Australia's famous flying doctors more needed than ever

Date of Posting: 15-03-2026

Rachel Crozier would need to travel to the nearest city, 400km away, to access the healthcare she and her family need if it wasn't for vital help. The childcare educator lives in the tiny remote town of Tibooburra in far north-western NSW, hom Read More...

WHO chief says 12 medics dead in strike on Lebanon

Date of Posting: 15-03-2026

Twelve doctors, paramedics and nurses have been killed ‌in a strike on a primary healthcare centre in Lebanon, the head of the World Health Organisation says. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said two paramedics were also kille Read More...

Foreign owner apologises for Optus triple-zero failures

Date of Posting: 13-03-2026

The Singaporean parent company of Optus is "deeply sorry" for the fatal triple-zero outage, but has deflected questions on foreign ownership of critical infrastructure. Appearing at a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra into the outage, Si Read More...

VIC:Tech, education could help prevent fatal crash repeat

Date of Posting: 13-03-2026

Automated technology, clearer guidelines for health professionals and compact messaging similar to cigarette plain packaging have been cited as measures that could prevent a repeat of a deadly crash. An inquest is looking into the fatal 2023 crash Read More...

Biotech shares plunge after lung cancer drug's failure

Date of Posting: 13-03-2026

Shares in an leading ASX-listed biotech have lost nearly all of their value after its lead drug candidate failed as a lung cancer treatment. Immutep shares had plunged 90 per cent to 4 cents near midday on Friday, taking its market capitalisation Read More...

Pierre Fabre Laboratories is exploring the potential of Artificial Intelligence to launch a new gene

Date of Posting: 12-03-2026

From 100 to 600 patients: to support patients suffering from acne, Avène, Pierre Fabre Laboratories' leading brand, is strengthening the robustness of its clinical studies via data augmentation through Artificial Intelligence. TOULOUSE, Read More...

Telco's parent company faces triple-zero outage probe

Date of Posting: 12-03-2026

Singtel board director Gail Kelly is expected to face a grilling at a parliamentary inquiry into Optus' fatal triple-zero outage. The September 18 outage, which lasted almost 14 hours, affected hundreds of calls in four states and territories, Read More...