Health

There are calls for reform of the laws in Victoria governing mental health treatment today, after revelations in Fairfax newspapers...

When the budget was handed down earlier this year the government announced it would spend $2.2 billion on mental health....

Patients with dialysis deal with medicines every three days and it may be exhausting and expensive. Now a new hostel...

A radical new approach to curbing alcohol harm in Aboriginal communities was put forward at a national forum in Sydney...

ABC journalist Kerry O’Brien is in Adelaide today as guest speaker at a fundraiser for the Joanna Briggs Foundation. He...

For many of us mosquitoes are just an annoying insect to swat away at a BBQ. But for millions in...

Today saw the release of the 2011 Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report- and the gap is not closing in a hurry....

One community that runs its own health service is Kintore, 500 kilometres west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory....

We’ve all heard the startling figure that 1 in 4 young people in Australia suffer from a mental illness. But...

A new Australian survey about young people’s attitudes to sexual health is raising questions about the success of sex education...