Mary Lloyd

More and more people are turning to grassroots recycling initiatives to make up for wider system inadequacy. ABC NEWS spoke to two women who've set up schemes to help make it easier for others to recycle. 

An antipsychotic medication often prescribed to people with schizophrenia or bipolar is in short supply.

A Brisbane law firm has filed a class action against Johnson & Johnson alleging the pharmaceutical giant made false claims about the effectiveness of popular brands of cold and flu medication.  

The government asks the auditor general to review a support program for kids with disability in early childcare education, following an ABC investigation into the scheme.

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.

More and more women are heading to the gym to pump weights, a space once dominated by men.

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.