Health

The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association says it is outraged after police were offered a 39 per cent pay increase earlier this week. 

Advocacy groups have called for further reform of the Disability Support Pension and condemned the federal government for its response to a Senate inquiry into the payment.

Kahi Simon, 20, died by suicide five days after being discharged from hospital. His mother doesn't want any other parent to live her nightmare.

Queensland's new premier has confirmed the LNP will repeal drug laws that are diverting thousands of people from the criminal justice system and have the support of police and doctors.

Many 26- to 65-year-olds who "fell between the cracks" when it came to accessing government assistance have turned to Sarah Dockrell and her hearing aid bank.

First results of the 2024 National Carers Survey show many carers feel socially isolated and suffer from high or very high levels of psychological distress.

An email obtained by the ABC confirms Queanbeyan Hospital has stopped providing surgical terminations for fetal anomalies and medical reasons, restricting access to a legal and time-critical form of reproductive health care.

A mother accused of starving her malnourished daughter has told a Perth court the teenager was "perfect" and had always been thin.

On the eve of a 24-hour strike, nurses in NSW have lashed out against the state's government refusal to meet its demands for a pay rise, just a day after police received a historic wage increase.

An inquest into the drowning of serviceman Gary Dale Sargeant will investigate the way his mental health was handled by the RAAF, which initially refused to provide police with an image of him after he went missing.

Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson believes sending off players for high shots following kick-offs would improve player safety, rather than big rule changes.

An aging and geriatric medicine specialist says the project, led by researchers at the University of Queensland, shows people who maintain better health in their mid and later life are more likely to prevent dementia.

Unions say they recently raised serious safety concerns about a wind project where a worker was crushed by a turbine blade in Victoria's west and that safety standards in the industry are lagging behind.

When a child isn’t safe with their family, they are placed into the care of the WA government. But some of these children and their foster parents are shining a spotlight on conditions they say are putting youth back in harm’s way.

Since 2022, the federal government has invested $26.1 million to help make naloxone, a medicine that blocks the effects of opioids, widespread. Yet some pharmacists are still choosing to not stock the medicine.

After giving birth to Henry from her mother's donated womb, Kirsty Bryant began showing signs of organ rejection before she could have another child. Despite the change in plans, she feels "so lucky" to have her baby boy.

Veterans are being targeted by social media ads offering access to "free" medicinal cannabis, funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs. VeteranCann supplied medicinal cannabis to a man with a record of cannabis addiction, who ended up in "borderline psychosis".

The case of the malnourished teenager and the parents whom police have accused of deliberately starving her has been aired in public for the first time in Perth's District Court in recent weeks.

Does disconnection with the ground cause us to become sicker? That's the idea behind the practice of "grounding" or "earthing" which is growing in popularity. We separate the science from the nonsense. 

The federal government will place RSV vaccines on the national immunisation program, as 12,000 babies are hospitalised with the virus each winter.

The Northern Land Council received more than $36 million in COVID-19 stimulus funding over a two year period – now questions are being raised about exactly where that went.

Roz Hervey has accessed voluntary assisted dying two years on from her Motor Neurone Disease diagnosis.

Stacey Chapman was born with a heart condition that should have prevented her from living her life to the fullest — and it almost did.

When Lazarus Manbulloo was struggling with the loss of two family members in quick succession, he realised there was a lack of culturally-appropriate mental health services in regional and remote Australia.

A Victorian woman was left waiting three hours for an ambulance while suffering a potentially catastrophic brain bleed, amid the state's ongoing ambulance crisis.