The parents of a toddler who died of leukaemia at a hospital in Western Australia after they repeatedly asked for blood tests are calling for the doctors who treated their son to be stood down.
A cutting-edge new treatment involving mapping the DNA of tumours more than doubled the two-year survival rate of kids with high-risk cancers, an Australian study has found.
Opal Sandy from Oxfordshire is the first patient to be treated in a global gene therapy trial, which shows "mind-blowing" results according to doctors.
The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator.
For the first time in South Australia, women already on the contraceptive pill can now skip a visit to the doctor and get their prescription renewed at the pharmacy.
The study said that, without vaccines, 21,250 people aged over 50 would have died from the virus in the state over those 12 months – almost six times the actual 3495 deaths in that age group.
Women who allegedly suffered complications undergoing so-called "One Size Fits All" breast augmentation surgery in two states could be compensated under a proposed class-action settlement.
Australian researchers have discovered that a bedtime nasal spray has the potential to reduce the severity of sleep apnea and lower patient's blood pressure.