Health

‘I can’t be too blunt about this: thousands of people die each year.’

‘I was on the floor, leaning against the wall on the carpet and I was in the middle of crying.’

The family of a Perth teenager who is battling a sixth relapse of leukaemia are desperately trying to fund potentially lifesaving treatment overseas after exhausting all medical options in Australia.

THE WASHINGTON POST: If you’re one of the 15 million people who shared your DNA with 23andMe, it’s time to delete your data.

Young travelling Australians will be targeted on social media, podcasts, at airports and with text messages warning them of the dangers of methanol poisoning and urging them to keep an eye on their mates.

‘You hear about it happening to other families, and it’s awful, but you never imagine it to happen to your own parent.’

Both sides of politics have vowed to stare down the Trump Administration if it goes after Australia’s $18 billion medicine subsidy scheme

The big-name tech billionaires have established themselves as a global ruling class but how are they using their combined trillion-dollar wealth to carve out a better future for the planet?

Health officials have issued an urgent alert after a traveller arriving on a Jetstar flight into Australia, disembarked and moved around a major metropolitan city whilst infected with measles.

The Albanese Government has promised it will spend $7 million upgrading a national health website that was supposed to enable Australians to shop around for affordable healthcare if it is re-elected.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The coronavirus pandemic can seem so safely submerged in the past that we sometimes have to stop and ask ourselves: Did that really happen? It did.

Australia’s national grief and loss helpline is set to close on Tuesday due to a lack of sustainable funding from the Federal Government.

Men and women tend to be heavier when married, with marriage increasing the risk of men being overweight by 62 per cent, new research has found.

In a process labelled as an unmitigated success, an Aussie patient has become the first in the world to leave hospital after an artificial heart transplant.

The patient fell into a coma the day after her surgery and never regained consciousness.