Customers are being prescribed vapes by online-only doctors in minutes,in a practice shunned by medical bodies amid concerns two-thirds of vaping is recreational.
The study is being touted as a major breakthrough that has taken the leading genetic cause of infant death into something that will be screened for and can be treated.
Flu hospitalisations are also concerning health authorities,with figures showing most have not taken up the government’s offer of a free flu shot.
Thousands of doses of expensive antiviral medications could be wasted if more Australians do not become eligible for the COVID-19 treatments.
The number of COVID infections reported this year is more than 20 times greater than for the two previous years.
More than 70 of the roughly 180 public sector branches of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association voted to stop work for periods ranging from two hours to 24 hours on June 28.
Data found that at least 17 per cent – or almost 3.5 million – Australian adults had caught the virus by the end of February.
A family conversation at Christmas turned into an academic project that found music assisted people with pain and anxiety,reducing the need for painkillers.
Aboriginal people in remote parts of Australia’s north are struggling to keep food and medication cool,due to a dangerous combination of hotter temperatures,poor housing and power issues.
Burnet Institute deputy director Margaret Hellard is urging the public not to give up on trying to limit transmission of COVID-19,arguing many deaths could be avoided by delaying some infections this year.
Triple-zero calls soared to more than 375,000 in the first quarter of this year,with a record 9300 responses to the most life-threatening cases.