New legislation passed last week marks the end of a saga kicked off by the axing of six research projects by the Morrison government.
An ultra-rare genetic mutation has seven-year-old Sasha Lipworth regressing into infancy. Her diagnosis this month gives her a front-row seat to the future of medicine.
Scientists have linked three common and cheap pantry items with significant weight loss. But are these silver bullets as mythical as werewolves?
Australia’s population aged 85 and older will more than double over the next two decades. Is a crisis inevitable?
The world-first study used an organ-preserving machine nicknamed a “liver in a box” that could revolutionise the way scientists trial medicines.
Your risk of cancer,heart attack and Alzheimer’s could be revealed with a swab of saliva. But the burgeoning DNA technology has significant flaws.
A world-first study has identified a factor that leads to a 4½-times greater risk of heart attack,stroke and death – and exposure is unavoidable.
The prestigious Group of Eight is opposed to a levy to fund infrastructure across the sector,as a 400-page report declares the current funding model is broken.
A program trying to harness AI to radically change how skin cancer is detected is being considered by the Albanese government.
For the first time,Australian researchers have sought to put a number on how much better newer vaccines shield us from severe disease.
Australia will spend $50 million building the world’s first long-term artificial heart,after the original prototype was built with pieces bought from Bunnings.