The Inclusion Support Program aims to help early learning centres remove barriers that prevent them from including students with disability. But childcare workers have told the ABC they're having problems accessing the scheme.
A childcare operator was given the power to allocate more than half a billion dollars in federal funding set aside for children with disabilities, without any public record of how the money was spent.
Heavy menstrual bleeding affects one in four women but despite the pain and disruption it causes, only half seek medical help. Doctors are trying to change that.
Menopause has become “over-medicalised” and treated like a “disease”, Australian researchers are arguing, saying some women are getting unnecessary treatment. But it’s a controversial opinion.
Facilities and services providing cosmetic surgery will be forced to comply with new national standards released today as part of a suite of crackdowns on the industry by regulators.
Four years after being diagnosed with a form of breast cancer that’s hard to detect, ABC journalist Mary Lloyd goes back to her doctors to find out how women can look out for it.
As Australian doctors trial a new therapy targeting the cells that turn into anal cancer, they are also pushing for the stigma around anal screening and anal health to be addressed.
The role hormones play during menopause and the effect they have on women’s
psychology needs more attention from medical professionals, women and medical
experts say.