Hospitals and Healthcare

Midwives from Aboriginal Women's health centre Waminda will now be allowed to help First Nations women like Emma Ardler give birth at Shoalhaven Hospital after previous restrictions were lifted. 

Public health workers say the Victorian government can't ignore the evidence supporting a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD, in submissions to a state review into the controversial proposal.

Nurses may be given body cameras to protect them from aggressive patients as ministers try to repair relations with striking NHS staff.Steve Barclay, the health

Nitrous oxide linked to more than 60 fatal crashes in the country in less than three years

Nurses say they have been abused, threatened and assaulted in the town of Bourke. They are afraid the threat of violence is compromising the care of patients at the local hospital.

Experts say dangerous injuries can occur as videos of people falling off precariously stacked crates go viral on social media

Severe allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines are "exceedingly rare", experts say. But why do they sometimes happen — and who's at risk?

Human Rights Watch reports that hundreds of thousands of people with mental illness worldwide remain shackled, the risks of which are even more severe due to COVID-19.

Royal Darwin Hospital doctors are seeing a concerning number of quad bike injuries, sparking fresh calls to ban Australian kids 16 and younger from ATVs.

The peak body for emergency room doctors says they warned authorities a tragedy like the fatal Sydney knife attack was inevitable if governments did not act to fix the crisis in hospital EDs.

A nurse who suffered severe burns in an incident at Hillmorton Hospital has spoken out.

Medical bodies are calling for other states and territories to urgently follow Queensland and conduct health screening of all past and present workers involved in cutting stone to make kitchen benchtops.

As the future of e-scooters is considered in South Australia, consideration should be given to the safety of people living with disabilities, Bethany Cody writes in this special report.

Researchers say they have found a new technique that could save the lives of shark attack victims, and all it involves is applying pressure between "the hips and the bits".

Vaccine experts are warning the federal government against rushing out a coronavirus vaccine before testing has shown it's both safe and effective. Decades of history show why they're right.

We often hear that organizational culture is determined by the board and the CEO. Where does that leave everyone else? Sam Watson argues that organizational culture is a shared responsibility of the board, senior leadership, and staff.

The biggest hospital in eastern Victoria is sanctioned by the workplace regulator after a stabbing in its mental health wing in June

As the number of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia rises, health professionals grapple with how to talk to patients about gun safety at home.