Sarah Sedghi

Fraud protections for those affected by the Optus data breach will be boosted under a plan to make it easier for telecommunications companies to share data with federal authorities and banks.

For the 150,000 Australians that will be newly diagnosed with cancer each year, seeking treatment has its difficulties.

Experts say delayed or disrupted access to healthcare services during lockdowns has contributed to many people being diagnosed later, particularly with cancer.

As political leaders continue to resist calls to mandate masks amid surging COVID cases, health experts say our best defence against the virus is being under-utilised.

In the past few decades, many hereditary mutations have been discovered that put people at risk of cancer. Doctors are now racing to identify ways to stop the onset of these cancers.

Borderline personality disorder affects a significant number of people in the community, but the stigma surrounding this mental health condition sees many fall through the cracks.

It is a cause of angst for many parents — the worry that their children will face pressure to try alcohol and illicit drugs. But parents can make more of a difference than they think.

While Australia has become the latest country to approve the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 12 and over, the US has already been having trials for babies and young children.

Ice use in Australia is on the rise, but the stigma attached to addiction can hold back people like Jack trying to get help.

A UK clinical trial which saw some participants with type 2 diabetes go into remission has caught the attention of doctors in Australia, with the program being adopted in remote Indigenous communities and south-west Sydney.

Sir David Attenborough is sounding the alarm on damaging climate change – warning a "moment in crisis" has arrived.

A cluster of shark attacks in North Queensland’s Cid Harbour has raised questions about the measures being taken to protect people in the water.

HIV, once considered unstoppable, is on the decline and Australia has made huge strides in reducing new cases, but while the latest results are generally good news, rates of infection in Indigenous and some regional communities are on the rise.

Over 15,000 women in Sydney have re-entered the workforce in less than a decade, thanks to the charity Dress for Success.

A US man with Hunter syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, becomes the first human patient to trial a gene-editing treatment inside his body.

New Zealand wants to be free of its most destructive introduced predators such as rats, possums and stoats by 2050, with the Government committing $28 million for an eradication program.

The television host responds to the media storm caused by her comments that she would like to see Muslim immigration in Australia stopped in the interests of safety.

The location of a legendary escape tunnel dug with spoons by Jewish prisoners to escape their Nazi captors during World War II, has been discovered in a Lithuanian forest.

It may be best known for filling party balloons, but helium is a vital resource for science, medicine and industry. Now scientists are hunting for new sources of the gas as the global supply goes into rapid decline.

An unusual bear shot by a hunter days ago in Nunavut, a territory in northern Canada, is thought by experts to be a "grolar" or "pizzly" bear - a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly.