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The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) said there was a nearly 20 per cent increase in gonorrhoea cases from 2022 to 2023, with another increase expected this year
Ita Buttrose is heading up a national campaign to raise awareness among older Australians, as the number of cases of the respiratory illness matches the flu.
The Australian pharmacy which compounds Willby's Wind and Colic Mix have been told by authorities they can no longer make it after warnings about the risks of one of the ingredients it contains over the past few weeks.
The parents of a toddler who died of leukaemia at a hospital in Western Australia after they repeatedly asked for blood tests are calling for the doctors who treated their son to be stood down.
A cutting-edge new treatment involving mapping the DNA of tumours more than doubled the two-year survival rate of kids with high-risk cancers, an Australian study has found.
Opal Sandy from Oxfordshire is the first patient to be treated in a global gene therapy trial, which shows "mind-blowing" results according to doctors.
The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator.
For the first time in South Australia, women already on the contraceptive pill can now skip a visit to the doctor and get their prescription renewed at the pharmacy.