The first large scale government report on dementia in Australia was released today to mark the start of Dementia Action Week (September 20-26). Dementia in Australia, carried out by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), is the first report ...

Two midwives deny police allegations they were criminally negligent after a woman died following a home birth in a pool of water. Melody Bourne, 44, of Mullumbimby, and Gaye Demanuele, 60, of Preston, appeared for a committal hearing in Melbourne ...

Hospitalisation rates, not case numbers, could determine when NSW residents could be granted more freedom. Former deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth said once hospitalisation rates decrease it would be a good indication that the state is “on the right ...

A Sydney doctor has warned of a distressing reality for some families hospitalised with Covid-19 – leaving their kids “Covid orphans” with nobody to care for them. Dr Lucy Morgan, an associate professor at Sydney University and a respiratory physician ...

Women will soon be able to safely and privately access abortion health services in Western Australia after landmark legislation finally passed through state parliament. Advocates have expressed relief and described the passing of the legislation as “historic” and “momentous” for ...

NSW’s chief health officer has apologised to the family of a woman who died from Covid-19, conceding she had been exposed to the virus by a healthcare worker. The woman tested positive for Covid-19 on July 29 and was not vaccinated – she ...

Acclaimed auteur David Lynch is a coffee freak. He drinks up to 10 cups a day, down from a shake-inducing 20, and once said that "even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all". Well, researchers from the University ...

There have been 21 cases of COVID-19 at a Sydney aged care home as of Tuesday morning, as it was confirmed that an infected nurse worked across multiple sites. On Tuesday August 2, the NSW Department of Health confirmed that ...

Dozens of junior doctors have joined a new class action against a Victorian public hospital service amid claims the industry is understaffed, underpaid and patients’ lives are being put at risk. Almost 70 junior doctors working in the Western Health ...

An ex-nurse and conspiracy theorist has called for doctors and nurses to be hanged in a stunning anti-vaccination speech in front of thousands of protesters in London over the weekend.  Kate Shemirani compared NHS doctors and nurses to Nazis executed ...