Health

With mince meat costing around $20  a kilo and fuel $3 a litre, the high cost-of-living is a harsh reality for residents in remote areas of Australia like the Torres Strait and Cape York. However, relief may be on the way.

The world-first trial involves taking patients' healthy cells, growing them in a lab, and injecting them back into damaged tendons with the results surprising both patients and surgeons.

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shone a light on worsening patient experiences.

With surgery only offering 50 to 80 per cent chance of success, much improved data is now in on an Australian-made treatment using patients' own cells, giving hope to people with complex tennis elbow cases.

The scientists found that four pre-existing drugs successfully eliminated cells  that were found to speed up the effects of ageing on the brain, so-called "zombie" cells that grew faster in a COVID-19-affected brain.

Genes, environment and lifestyle are some of the risk factors for serious diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. This is why scientists believe COVID-19 infection should be added to the list, writes Catherine Taylor.

Is the mask mandate coming back? Are there new booster shots? When can I go back to work? Everything you need to know if you get COVID-19.

We're in the grips of a surging COVID-19 wave but there's some good news — the new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna will be up for grabs from December 11.

A five-week review has secured the short-term future of the two units, but St John of God Bendigo Hospital says more patronage is needed to keep them open long-term.

Meet the nurses who are being winched out of helicopters and flying in to help people in some of the most remote parts of the country.

Wearing a mask at the shops, on public transport and in other crowded settings will help prevent you from getting infected with COVID or spreading it to other people, writes Raina MacIntyre.

A year on from climate change induced floods, Pakistan is struggling to rebuild.

Leading emergency health specialist Stephen Gourley will head the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, making history as the first rural physician in the top job.

Emma Pollard explains the history of fluoridated water in Queensland.

In 2023, about 90 per cent of Australians can access fluoridated water — but only 72 per cent of Queenslanders do.

The only GP clinic in a town just outside Melbourne is facing possible closure because it does not have enough doctors. Advocates say it's an example of an urgent national crisis.

Thousands of autistic drivers could find their Australian licences are in legal limbo due to changes quietly made last year to the national standards that govern who is considered fit to drive.

Paralympian Kate Næss would love to still be competing in para-triathlon, but after having two children, she's had to face the reality of pursuing her passion or supporting her family. 

In the space of 12 months, Natalia derailed her career, ended her relationship, spent $120,000 in savings and lost access to her kids. It started with an ADHD diagnosis.

From next Monday staff and patients in public hospitals must wear surgical masks in high-risk clinical areas, as WA's eighth wave of COVID takes hold.

Elderly patients are dying in hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven while waiting, sometimes for months, to be transferred to aged care facilities. Here's why

The night before her 19-year-old son's funeral, Rachelle Van der Loos's brother also took his own life. She has founded a charity that she hopes will spare others the loneliness she felt during that traumatic time.

Exercise is important, whether you like it or not. But enjoyment can help you stay consistent, and boost the benefits you get from a workout.

After seven years trying for a family, Marni Cochrane was more than halfway through her first pregnancy with identical twin girls when they were diagnosed with a rare and potentially life-threatening medical condition.

Vaginal birth after a previous caesarean shouldn't be a battle, but making it happen in Australia can be exhausting for some expectant parents.