Caitlyn Gribbin

Qualified registered nurses will soon be able to write prescriptions for medications, in a bid to ease pressure on a stressed public healthcare system.

Almost fifteen-hundred calls were made last year to Australia's poisons hotlines about children taking melatonin, as more parents turn online to buy unregulated products like gummies.

A new survey has revealed the prevalence of migraines is far worse in Australian women than experts previously estimated.

A survey of nearly 400 women around Australia found a delay in diagnosing birth injuries is leading to more severe mental health issues.

A new survey has found women with injuries after childbirth are experiencing diagnosis delays, which has severe mental health consequences. Maternal health advocates say the survey results are confronting and a sign the health system is failing women. A warning this story contains discussion of suicide. 

Sometimes it's not easy to decipher when a sick child needs medical attention or just lots of hugs. Medical experts weigh in on the best way to manage symptoms and sickness this flu season

In just one year, more than two thousand Australians died of a drug overdose – most were unintentional deaths. 

Teens urged to get HPV vaccine

Of the more than 3,000 damaged properties on the NSW Mid North Coast that have been assessed, more than 500 are declared uninhabitable and unsafe, with the number expected to rise. 

Some women who desperately want to breastfeed their babies are giving up because of a lack of support in regional and rural Australia.

Australia has seen a rise in “zero-alcohol” beverages on the market. But some still contain low levels of alcohol, leading to potential confusion for customers, especially those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.

Stuffing the humble Chinese dumpling or buying this year’s Christmas ham is becoming very expensive, with pork costs almost doubling due to swine fever.

Cooladdi has a post office, pub, restaurant, motel and grocery store — but only three residents. So what do you for a night in Australia’s smallest town?

In Queensland's coal heartland, a number of locals are trading in their mining jobs to work in the renewables sector.

They're in their nineties and they're doing swimmingly — meet the oldest competitors at this week's Pan Pacific Masters Games.

They’re in their nineties and they’re doing swimmingly — meet the oldest competitors at this week’s Pan Pacific Masters Games.

Romance has stolen the show at the Invictus Games as Australian athlete Dean Knobel followed up his gold medal win with a marriage proposal to his girlfriend and "rock" Rachel Wilson.

Families of the four people killed at Dreamworld ride are reduced to tears at the inquest into their deaths, when a supervisor from the Gold Coast theme park addresses them from the witness box offering his sympathies.

First responders to the Dreamworld ride tragedy say the best doctors or medical equipment would not have been able to save the four victims who were thrown into the water after a ride malfunction.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison orders an investigation into why his Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert has been slugging taxpayers up to $2,800 a month for his internet bills at his home on Queensland’s Gold Coast.