About 40,000 Australians have a stroke each year, and swift diagnosis is vital. A pilot study in Melbourne brings the critical parts of stroke treatment directly to patients in a specialised ambulance

The Australasian Skin Cancer Congress has been discussing how best to treat the rise in melanoma.

Monkeypox virus is classified as an Orthopoxvirus—one which uses mammals as host. Humans are protected against it by the smallpox vaccine, but are becoming more susceptible to monkeypox now due to les

We host a pre-election health discussion with 4 experts assessing the pressing issues. What are the most pronounced problems, and what health questions have not been raised at all?

Doctors at Royal Darwin hospital struggle to communicate with Aboriginal patients, but a podcast featuring Aboriginal elders answering doctors’ questions aims to help better deliver culturally safe ca

Men are rightly the focus when we talk about prostate cancer, but the disease and its treatments can affect their relationships as well—and many partners find they’re unprepared for the aftermath of a

In Australia there's great disparity in the risk of dying before your time, when compared with the average age at death. The risk is called premature mortality, and has been mapped on to federal elect

Many Australians experience blindness and severe vision loss because of a condition called Age Related Macular Degeneration. Some of them are able to have the progress to blindness slowed or halted by

An article in The Medical Journal of Australia recently describes a disease claimed to have increased exponentially in the last 20 years. It's called Eosinophilic Oesophagitis, and can be mistaken for

Opioids are a group of morphine-like drugs which are used to control pain. In Australia we haven't experienced an opioid disaster similar to the United States, but Australia has had problems.