Angus Thomson

An Australian hospital has become the first in the world to implant a revolutionary device considered a “quantum leap” in preventing deaths from heart failure.

Wellness giant Blackmores is the target of looming legal action over supplements containing a vitamin linked to symptoms including nerve damage, twitches and migraines.

Montu says its systems are safe and patient-focused, following revelations one of its doctors wrote more than 72,000 cannabis scripts in two years.

Darcy Pearce and her two toddlers were forced out of their rental when the local health service identified concerning levels of lead in her daughter’s blood.

Long waits for emergency care and a decline in community health services have contributed to a rise in physical assaults against NSW health staff, frontline workers say.

Internal documents reveal the level of concern inside the NSW environment watchdog about releasing a report that mining companies did not want published.

St Vincent’s Hospital will close its long COVID clinic and transition patients into existing services in a decision likely to affect hundreds.

A hospital in Sydney’s inner west is paying almost $200,000 a month to keep on top of a backlog linked to more than a dozen adverse patient outcomes.

A shortage of residential care beds is costing NSW taxpayers an estimated $1.2 million a day and leaving hundreds of families in limbo.

Decisions have been made about strip-searches and sniffer dogs at music festivals, and how to handle drivers with a medicinal cannabis prescription.