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MART PRODUCTION/Pexels One Nation is concerned about subsidised, prescription medicines being sold on the black market, one of several examples of what it says are Medicare “rorts”. We’ve known for years that some types of medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) can be misused this way...

Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty There are few things more irritating than lying in bed exhausted, ready to settle in for a good night’s sleep, only to be kept awake by a cough that won’t quit. So, if you’re desperate to make it stop, what actually works? Most coughs don’t needed to be treated...

Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the Wor...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today marks the 25th anniversary of Research4Life, a public-private partnership that provides researchers, educators, health professionals and policy-makers in low- and middle-income countries with affordable or free access to scientific knowledge. The partnership...

WHO Member States have advanced negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex, a central component of the WHO Pandemic Agreement, while agreeing that continued discussions are needed to finalize a framework that supports a faster, more effective and equitable response to futur...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released updated guidelines on reducing the risk of cognitive decline and dementia, providing countries with evidence-based recommendations to help prevent or delay the onset of dementia across the life course. Dementia is a condition caused by brain diseas...

Dmytro Sheremeta/Getty Images The COVID pandemic feels like a long time ago. Now, we have widespread immunity from vaccination and natural infection. And getting COVID is less risky than it was five years ago. But COVID can still lead to hospitalisation and deaths in older people, pregnant women and...

nazar_ab/Getty Images Introduced under urgency this month, the government’s latest proposed law change would increase the health minister’s powers to interfere in the work of medical registration authorities. The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill aims to “align health workforc...

The fallout from Telstra’s national network outage on Wednesday was widespread, stalling trains and electronic payments, and preventing emergency calls to Triple Zero connecting. The company conducted more than 600 welfare checks on people unable to contact the emergency hotline, with seven people n...