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Aussies are set to be charged more than $100 for a standard non-bulk-billed GP appointment from next month, following a third price increase this year.

Ballooning demand for the diabetes drug has triggered global shortages.

NSW and Victoria ruled independent GPs would be hit with a 5.45 per cent and 4.85 per cent payroll tax respectively.

They're the lifeline helping Western Australia's ailing health system, but migrant doctors are being forced to live in holiday accommodation.

Dozens of families are being forced to travel interstate for specialised testing after Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson suspended the service locally.

Our Medical is a chain of clinics privately owned by Cornerstone Health in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria and has released an app and reward program.

Santan is Australia's oldest male Orangutan and is struggling with arthritis.

A woman with a painful back condition said she doesn't know how she'll cope as a drug she says is essential to her life is discontinued in Australia.

Bodhi Leo Searle died in August 2021, the day after his birth at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide.

Women in South Australia who receive a free mammogram will be notified whether they have dense breasts.

Elsie's mum said three GPs couldn't work out what was wrong, before she was finally tested in hospital.

Though Teo has accomplished "some wonderful things during his career" he became much too "separated from his colleagues over the past decade", leading to questionable decision making.

The TGA authorised doctors to prescribe doses of MDMA and psilocybin for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder on July 1.

The nation's top GP body has issued an urgent warning of a new wave of the deadly opioid which can prove deadly in tiny doses.

A New York fertility doctor who was accused of using his own sperm to impregnate several patients died over the weekend when the hand-built airplane he was in fell apart mid-flight and crashed.

An osteoarthritis expert is warning against popular knee injections used to treat arthritis pain, claiming they won't help patients in the long term.

Up to one in three women suffer from this debilitating condition, but Medicare will not help them diagnose it unless it is affecting their ability to conceive.

Men living with metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer will be able access Erlyand (apalutamide) on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from June, which currently costs patients about $40,000 a year.

Years later, the victims of these surgeries are speaking out over what they say has left them extremely damaged.

Researchers found a significant improvement across eight areas of health-related quality of life after people started treatment.

More Australians are seeing their GP for skin cancer, new research has found.

After calls from health bodies and medical professionals, Australia will completely overhaul its laws and regulations surrounding vaping.

More than 200,000 patients undergo elective surgery in NSW each year, and most face either long wait times, or have to spend thousands of dollars in health insurance gap payments.

While doctors could pick up 218 people with severe aortic stenosis, the numbers doubled to 442 when using AI-assisted software.

Chemist Warehouse director Mario Tascone said that while pharmacists support the idea of doubling drug volumes on single prescriptions, it has to happen over time, rather than overnight.

A battle is on between GPs and community pharmacists ahead of the federal budget next month over how to save patients time and money when getting their medicines. 

A small, sticky patch that can detect important health markers in real-time is being trialled in Brisbane.

A team of doctors from Clayton's Hudson Institute has collected more than 300 samples of children's tumour cells to develop a digital collection of tumours, called the Childhood Cancer Model Atlas.

Howard Gorrell's leafy Sydney property is so heavily infested with ticks that a doctor urged him to sell up and move.

The illness affects 1 in 9 women across Australia.

Doctors have criticised the supermarket giant's effort to goafter a bigger piece of the wellness market by offering telehealth consultations.

Junior doctors across multiple states and territories are banding together to sue health services over unpaid overtime, excessive hours and dangerous rostering.

One of the country's leading tobacco control experts has called for the total ban of all vaping products around the country as uptake among the nation's youth soars.

A report found there was a decline in national bulk billing rates with 63 of 416 clinics opting out by the end of last year.

Pholcodine, found in over 55 pharmaceutical products, is being recalled after causing 50 patients to go into anaphylactic shock, and being linked to one death.

Jodie kept telling staff something wasn't right but she was left feeling like "that dramatic parent who is worrying about nothing".

Five to 10 per cent of COVID cases develop into long COVID and majority are struggling to cope, doctors say.

The Federal Government is commissioning experts at Deakin University to lead a review into the guidelines around the advice that doctors and medical experts will provide for people who are obese or overweight.

With just 14 per cent of medical graduates choosing general practice, Health Minister Mark Butler has announced a plan to attract more GPs.

Australia's embattled health system will be in the spotlight when Australia's leaders meet for National Cabinet in Canberra today.

Skyrocketing GP wait times have prompted a new push from both sides of politics to allow pharmacists to be able to prescribe certain medications in a bit to cut queues.

Over 50 per cent of general practices across the country are charging Australians out-of-pocket fees for a visit to the doctor.

Quairading has just 619 people, with just one doctor who is about to leave the town.

Scientists at the University of Sydney are researching if cannabidiol - a non-intoxicating component of cannabis - could help treat symptoms of people living with chronic pain, particularly those with spinal cord injuries.

Thousands of "incomplete" colonoscopies were conducted near the NSW-Victoria border.

A new report has laid bare the parlous state of bulk-billing across Australia, amid concerning revelations clinics are turning away patients.

GPs are the first stop for long COVID patients, however, they cannot help without the proper support.

Doctors say a severe staffing crisis is exacerbating the situation and putting children's lives at risk, with many medics overworked and underpaid.

Pharmacists will soon be able to treat some minor health conditions and re-issue contraceptive prescriptions, if an Andrews Government is re-elected.

When Amy Haigh's​ knees began to hurt, she thought nothing of it.