A WA nurse has been arrested on suspicion of 'administering' fake COVID-19 vaccinations. The 51-year-old female RN has been charged in "relation to the fraudulent recording of vaccine information" according to a statement from the Western Australia Police Force. On ...

With Australia set to reach its next major trigger point on the national COVID plan within 10 days, the Health Minister has outlined how COVID-positive people will be treated in the future. Greg Hunt anticipates Australia will reach the 80 ...

A fresh legal challenge to Covid-19 vaccination mandates for health workers in NSW is “very different” to the two lawsuits knocked back last week, a court has been told. John Edward Larter, a paramedic and deputy mayor of the Snowy Valleys Council, ...

A Tasmanian nurse who contracted Covid-19 last year has detailed how drastically her life has changed since recovering from the virus. Department of Public Health Secretary Kathrine Morgan-Wicks told reporters on Wednesday that the woman contacted her while in lockdown at the ...

Doctors and nurses are joining the war on waste after disturbing images reveal a grim plastic waste problem that has been made worse by the Covid pandemic. The scale of the problem — about 70 million pieces of plastic in landfill — ...

A man contracted by Victorian contact tracers has been refused bail after police allege he threatened to have an isolating nurse deported unless she had sex with him. Abdulfatah Awow, 24, of Carlton, made a bail bid in Melbourne Magistrates Court on ...

A Melbourne nurse has described patients “begging” for the coronavirus vaccine when they’re about to be put on life support as Victoria considers whether to fly in help from interstate. Royal Melbourne Hospital Intensive Care Unit nurse supervisor Michelle Spence ...

A search is underway to find a man who allegedly assaulted a nurse at a medical centre in Sydney’s Inner West last month. NSW Police were called to the Glebe Point Rd business at about 11.45am on August 27. They were told ...

A weekend lie in could go a long way to fighting depression, according to new research. Academics from Yonsei University in South Korea looked at the sleep of 5500 people to see if there is an association between weekend catch-up ...

Newly found blood biomarkers could help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease more than a decade before symptoms start to emerge. A world first study from researchers at Macquarie University identified a protein in the blood which could lead to low cost screening ...