Health

South Australia has confirmed its first case of H5 bird flu, with authorities addressing the media with more details.

A third bird is suspected to have tested positive for the highly infectious H5 strain of bird flu in WA.

‘We’ve taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites — gone, the kids are crying and everything — and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works.’

An investigation has been launched after a child, under the age of 12, was euthanised by doctors.

Most expensive IVF ‘add-ons’ either have no fertility benefit or lack evidence that they work, according to Australian research.

A groundbreaking piece of technology has been hailed as the ‘holy grail’ of treatment for one major health issue, which could ease patients grappling with staggeringly long transplant lists.

Two more dead birds found just across the WA border are currently being tested for H5N1 bird flu.

The 32-year-old mother of two has been told that she has stage four cancer.

IVF companies are calling for national fertility standards, with a uniform limit for sperm donations and a registry to find biological family members.

Whether it’s used in adolescence, midlife or older age may make a big difference.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say an armed group has removed a woman and her daughter from an Ebola health centre in the country's east.

More than 26,000 Australian men will be diagnosed with the disease this year while 10 die every day.

A 15-year-old girl is fighting for life after reportedly taking part in a viral online challenge, prompting urgent warnings from doctors and her devastated family. WARNING: Distressing content.

The Democratic ​Republic of ‌the Congo has reported nearly 800 cases of the rare strain of Ebola, while more 180 people have died.

‘My children spat it out, complaining the chocolate tasted like smelly cheese.’

Midlife could be your brain’s last line of defence, with mounting evidence showing the habits you build in your 30s to 60s may dramatically shape your risk of dementia decades later.

The World Health Organisation says three laboratories in the Democratic Republic of Congo ‌have run out of supplies to test for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola.

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