An epidemiologist has warned healthcare workers to stay vigilant of soaring Covid-19 cases leading to pressure on hospitals as Australia heads into a fifth wave this winter. Australia's hospital system has been vital in managing Covid cases, while frontline staff ...

Higher death rates are closely linked to shortages of healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, and midwifery staff, a major international study has confirmed. A new report published in the British Medical Journal analysed global health databases across 172 countries to ...

Medical experts have called for a quick response to curb monkeypox in Australia after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global emergency. Since the disease was first reported in Australia on May 20, there have been 44 cases ...

New research has challenged the conventional wisdom that women must wait at least 24 months after giving birth to become pregnant again. Curtin University-led research found that the WHO recommendation that women wait two years, in order to reduce the ...

A day after attending the G20 Summit in Osaka, at which world leaders pledged to strengthen health systems, the director-general of the World Health Organization made a surprise visit to a peak nursing conference to express his support for nurses worldwide. ...