Health

A state government is paving the way for drivers to operate vehicles while under the influence of prescribed medical cannabis.

A Labor senator has suggested some doctors in tight markets are engaging in ‘cartel behaviour’, acting together to boycott the government’s $8.5 billion Medicare scheme. 

Public outrage has erupted over an experimental Google-linked project to release 64 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes into the wild.

Health workers are rushing to provide supportive care in Congo and Uganda, hoping that some patients will recover on their own, while isolating the sick and tracing contacts of the infected.

The suspected arrived at the emergency department with symptoms consistent with the deadly virus.

The head of the World Health Organisation is visiting the centre of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Brazil probes a suspected case.

GLP-1 medications may be rewiring circuits involved not only in appetite, but addiction and cognitive delay.

Aussie comedy royalty Dave Hughes has revealed he has been treated for cancer.

Persistent fatigue is the most common complaint nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo hears in her clinic, she breaks down what might be making you feel tired.

‘We are trying to catch up, it is a race against the clock.’

For many people, the past month has brought unpleasant echoes of COVID: Mysterious deaths aboard a cruise ship, a virus that causes a deadly respiratory illness and talk of forced quarantines. 

Doctors are sounding the alarm as the disease is ‘driven by factors that we don’t yet understand.’

Experts say young people could be actively defying the warnings about sun exposure — after all, many grew up hearing them from parents, doctors, and in some cases, school programs. 

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ‌says a delay in ‌detecting ⁠Ebola cases means responders are ‘playing ​catch-up’.

More than ‌900 ‌suspected Ebola cases and 119 ‌deaths ⁠have now been ​recorded ⁠in the Democratic ‌Republic ​of the ​Congo as the virus spreads.