Health

NSW public hospital nurses will strike for the first time in almost a decade, as frustration over understaffing, pay and conditions boilover. Votes on industrial...

A snapshot of Australia's trainee doctors shows more than a third have witnessed or experienced workplace mistreatment for successive years. The survey results show 35...

The world's first "human challenge" trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to COVID-19 has been conducted in the UK and found to be...

A leading expert says there may be a spike in COVID-19 cases as schools begin to return in some states this week, but the...

More people will soon be able to get a COVID-19 booster shot after the medical regulator granted provisional approval for a third dose of...

Pfizer has begun a study comparing its original COVID-19 vaccine with doses specially tweaked to match the hugely contagious Omicron variant. Pfizer and its partner...

Former opposition leader Bill Shorten has called for a school immunisation program as children prepare to return to classrooms next week.  The Labor spokesman for...

Novavax vaccines will begin to be rolled out in Australia from Febuary 21, Health Minister Greg Hunt says. Mr Hunt said the Australian Technical Advisory...

The first two oral treatments for COVID-19 have been approved for use in Australia by the country's medical regulator. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has granted...

The Morrison government is providing additional funding to assist the temporary widening of telehealth consultations through GPs and other specialists due to the high...