Overdoses threaten future of ‘bush doof’
A drug cloud now hangs over the future of the Rainbow Serpent dance festival.
A drug cloud now hangs over the future of the Rainbow Serpent dance festival.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard wants specialist medical teams installed at every ‘high-risk’ music festival across NSW.
Aged-care providers face a crackdown over the chemcial restraint of nursing home residents after new standards were amended.
A standoff between two levels of government over funding in the NDIS is brewing, with 39 disabled people caught in the middle.
The 1918-19 flu epidemic killed more people than World War I. Could it happen again?
The federal government has called an urgent meeting with Aboriginal people and suicide prevention experts in Perth today.
The average NDIS support package for children with developmental delays is now less than half what was budgeted.
Scott Morrison has launched a pre-emptive strike against a union-led Mediscare 2.0 campaign.
The police commissioners of Australia’s two biggest states have rejected pill testing.
A simple blood test that detects signs of brain damage could be used to spot developing Alzheimer’s disease.
A group of Liberal backbenchers says the ‘war on drugs’ has been lost.
A NSW minister has lashed out at Greens MP Cate Faehrmann after she revealed she had taken the party drug ecstasy in her 20s.
The $18 billion aged-care system is under significant stress and increasingly corporatised.
Welfare payments for people with mental health conditions and their carers is costing taxpayers $7.3 billion each year.
Victoria is struggling to keep up with its rising body count, with forensic pathologists swamped by the demand for autopsies.
Australians with lung cancer could save as much as $90,000 a year after the medication Tagrisso is added to the PBS.
Aged-care providers have been warned by the royal commission into the sector not to stand in the way of staff giving evidence.
The $240m adult dental agreement ends on June 30 but Scott Morrison is avoiding negotiations with the states.
Doctors have blamed falling numbers of GPs seeing patients in nursing homes on poorly trained nurses and low Medicare rebates.
Ken Wyatt has announced he will prepare “regulations” to protect nursing home residents against misuse of physical and chemical restraints.
Regional health organisations will be given more money to spend on targeted mental health services.
A faith-based organisation that spearheaded injecting clinics in Sydney in 2011 has offered its services to a pill-testing trial.
The tragic toll of indigenous child suicide around Australia has risen further with the death of five girls in just nine days.
A damning submission to the aged-care royal commission reveals nursing home residents have been doped for years at a time.
Tens of thousands of cases of abuse and neglect will be revealed at the aged-care royal commission when it opens this Friday.
Allowing junior doctors to fill rural vacancies could save Medicare more than $70,000 a year for each job swap.
Expensive compliance measures associated with the NDIS are creating a potential shadow market of unregistered providers.
A summer flu surge and a measles outbreak have health authorities urging more Australians to get vaccinated.
Health Minister Greg Hunt has raised concern over the number of mentally ill young people being restrained in Queensland.
The states have scrapped plans to challenge claims public hospitals ‘harvest’ privately insured patients to offset costs.
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