Ambulances and emergency departments are under more pressure than ever,data released on Wednesday reveals. See how your suburb stacks up.
Professor James Dale’s bananas are the first genetically modified fruit approved for commercial growth. But would you eat one?
Sally Maconochie faced a terrible choice when her preschooler son bolted across a busy car park:potentially trigger the prolapse of her pelvic organs,or risk the worst.
Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness,radiation and being in close quarters. How do astronauts do it?
The image of the drunken Irish is taking a hit,with booze consumption in Ireland is at its lowest level in more than 35 years.
A record one-in-four people now have the debilitating condition,which is a risk factor for developing asthma.
When Jaimie Gardner first froze her eggs in 2021,she joined a growing cohort of women taking their fertility into their own hands.
“We know these vapes are being marketed at children,with flavours like fairy floss and bubblegum,and they’re hiding dangerous poisons,” the health minister says.
Critics of pill testing fear it will create a false sense of security that leads to more people taking more drugs. But the evidence says otherwise.
Blood lead levels in children under five are on the rise again despite decades of remediation efforts in a town built on one of Australia’s richest mines.
After a landmark $US425 million settlement in the United States,the drugs are being investigated in Australia over alleged links to stomach cancer and kidney damage.