Public Health

Australians are being warned to check their medicine cabinet for illegal pain relief tablets that include a dangerous sedative banned in most countries worldwide.The Therapeutic…

A Perth teenager who was rushed to hospital after an electric shock remains in a critical condition in intensive care.Investigations are ongoing into how the 16-year-old’s tree…

When Morel Aston called triple-0 with intense stomach pain and no ambulances were available, Victorian paramedics knew they had to get her to a hospital.So they called her a…

Warning: Confronting imagesA Perth man has been left with third-degree burns after his vape exploded and caught fire in his pocket.WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Perth man’s horrific burns…

The operators of the Peel Health Campus in Mandurah say they have no idea when patients will be able to return to the hospital.Twenty-three patients were on Friday evacuated from…

WARNING: Distressing contentConfronting video shows police double-handcuffing a distressed 81-year-old dementia patient at a Sydney nursing home after she took a lanyard from a…

Nurses working 24-hour shifts at a major WA hospital demonstrates the risks facing staff and patients in the public health system amid ongoing staffing pressures, a union…

A 95-year-old woman is fighting for her life following a “critical incident” at a NSW nursing home in which she was tasered by police.Clare Nowland, a dementia patient, was tasered…

A mystery illness has been causing a Perth mother excruciating pain — which doctors could not explain — for 18 months before she finally received a diagnosis.Charmaine Thane just…

An elderly man has been seriously injured after cutting his leg with a chainsaw on a property in remote central NSW.The man in his 70s cut his leg while operating the chainsaw at a…