Emma Pollard

Young Australians are living with untreated dental issues as they’re also bombarded with dubious social media advice.

Dr Jillian Spencer has ended her employment with Queensland Children's Hospital after reaching a confidential settlement with Children’s Health Queensland, bringing an end to a three-year dispute.

Janelle Jeal thought having dental care overseas would be life changing. It was, but for the wrong reasons.

Educators behind a national program teaching high school students about periods and pelvic pain hope it will encourage empathy.

Flu cases have come down since the record-breaking 2025 season but experts warn against a "false sense of security".

The Queensland premier has opened the state's first major new public hospital in almost a decade — at Springfield, south-west of Brisbane — but it won't offer some services for religious reasons.

An alarming new report has found liver cancer deaths have risen from 1.6 deaths per 100,000 people in the 1980s to 5.1 per 100,000 in 2018–2022.

The nationwide closure of specialist centres has put a spotlight on the adequacy of National Disability Insurance Scheme funding for children with "severe, profound, lifelong" autism.

It's been available in the northern hemisphere for years, now Australian children can receive a nasal spray vaccine for the flu.

Researchers and advocates are calling for needle exchange programs to be introduced in prisons to help combat the risks of sharing needles and using unsafe devices to inject illicut drugs.