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Australian scientists have found a way to hinder the pleasurable effects of cocaine by targeting a receptor that also plays a role in heroin addiction. A research team from Adelaide and the US has been testing a new medication, called ...

Pressure continues to mount on the federal government to rule out plans for any form of Medicare patient co-payment. The ANMF is now backing criticisms from senior Liberal MP Mal Brough of his own party’s approach to primary care funding. Brough ...

Hoping to appeal to millions of needle-phobic diabetics, drugmakers Sanofi and Mannkind have launched Afrezza, an insulin that's inhaled, rather than injected. Afrezza was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last June for patients with either Type 1 ...

A British nurse who contracted Ebola whilst working in Sierra Leone possibly caught the virus by wearing a visor and not goggles in a situation better suited to the latter, an investigation has suggested. The report, by Save the Children, ...

Queensland University of Technology will be developing implementation tools for prescribing competencies. Project lead professor Lisa Nissen, head of the school of clinical sciences at QUT, spoke with health editor Dallas Bastian about the issue of health professionals lacking prescribing ...

The federal government is to commit $54.5 million over four years towards dementia support services for the establishment of a number of new Severe Behaviour Response Teams (SBRT). In a statement, assistant minister for social services Mitch Fifield explained that ...

Parents have long suspected it, but now doctors have proof: the more time teenagers spend on computers or mobile phones, the less they sleep, especially if the gadget is used just before bedtime. The evidence is so strong that health ...

A Liberal MP has called for the co-payment on GP visits to be dumped, as questions swirl about Tony Abbott's leadership. Queensland MP Mal Brough says Medicare spending on GP visits is not out of control. This contradicts the message from the government ...