More than 1000 women injured from defective pelvic mesh implants await assessment for compensation, two years after mammoth settlements were reached. Meant to assist women with prolapses and leakage, ...

Australian children and teenagers face the biggest impacts of an international shortage of critical ADHD medications. The nation's health regulator says certain drugs used to treat attention deficit ...

Osteoarthritis has long been seen as an inevitable part of ageing–a slow, grinding wear on the body that reduces movement, increases pain, and quietly reshapes everyday life. Affecting more than 2.2 ...

Drinking white wine and Champagne, eating more fruit and keeping waistlines slim could drive down the risk of sudden cardiac arrest, according to new research. Experts suggested that thousands of ...

A study published on Tuesday detailed a clinical trial where most volunteers received two vaccination jabs in one arm, and the rest switched arms between shots. Subscribe for FREE to the HealthTimes ...

A mind-altering medication chemically akin to ketamine will be made cheaper to improve the lives of Australians suffering from treatment-resistant depression - the first new government-backed ...

Most Australian girls and women opt out of playing sport when they have their period, says research prompting calls for free sanitary products at sporting facilities. Almost one in seven skipped sport ...

A test that assesses certain particles in the blood could predict a person's risk of developing heart disease more accurately than measuring cholesterol, according to a study. Switching the focus on ...

Opioids 1000 times stronger than morphine and an animal sedative used to lace street drugs have been detected in Australia's wastewater. The discovery has been described as a "red flag" and comes as ...

Consumers who are savvy about nutrition - even more so than those driven by sustainability concerns - are vital to the battle to reduce food waste. Nutrition-conscious Australians have many ...