Reducing Australia's blood alcohol limit for drivers to 0.02 is probably inevitable, a public health expert says.
Victoria will have a new, 200-bed, $220-million children's hospital at the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne's southeast.
Health authorities have warned of an alarming spike in gonorrhoea cases in the NSW port city of Newcastle.
The burden of deciding when a person's health makes them unfit to drive should rest with transport authorities, says the head of a hospital epilepsy clinic.
The situation has improved, but many indigenous Australians are still going blind from preventable causes.
A scan of brain activity can effectively read a person's mind, researchers say.
A pensioner has accused Queensland Health of "playing God" after he was forced to wait more than 200 days longer than he should have for urgent brain surgery.
A targeted anti-smoking campaign has made significant inroads into tobacco use among Arabic-speaking Australians.
Australia's health watchdog will consider overturning its ban on technology that allows parents using IVF to predetermine the sex of their children, according to reports.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the government is a step closer to a $15 billion agreement to deliver cheaper medicines and improve access to pharmacies.
Britain's National Trust is giving away bottles of fresh air to lift London city workers out of their stressed-out states.
Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
A new study will investigate whether cycling to and from work is a health hazard.
A settlement has been reached that could pay up to $US657.5 million to first responders and workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Centre.
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