Adelaide University researchers have developed laser-based technology that can detect chemicals like methanol, which killed two Australian teens overseas in 2024, without opening drink bottles. A ...

Australia’s first-ever clinical guidelines on childhood hypertension aim to address findings that some primary school children already have signs of developing heart damage. Australian children are ...

Established in 1887, the New Zealand Medical Journal is one of the oldest continuously published medical journals in the Southern Hemisphere. The Pasifika Medical Association Group assumed ...

A warning for public health officials, as mcr-12 antibiotic-resistant gene has been found outside a clinical setting for the first time, in water in NSW contaminated by heavy metals in NSW. A new ...

In a NZ Medical Journal editorial, doctors say the safety of our health system is under threat. They say that for a long time the government has made reducing health inequities a priority, and there ...

Getting an epidural during childbirth does not affect the risk of health problems for the newborn, according to a study of nearly 500,000 births in Scotland. International researchers analysed the ...

Adelaide University researchers are part of a collaborative project exploring if bacteriophage therapy could be used to treat chronic wound infections for people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa.

Bans on teenagers accessing social media are likely to have a mix of outcomes that may not all be positive, according to an opinion piece by international researchers. Following the Australian social ...

Scientists have discovered marsupial forelimbs (arms) develop before birth much earlier than previously thought, providing new insights into evolutionary innovation and biology. Scientists have ...

The Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) class of obesity drugs - including Ozempic and Wegovy - is also linked to a significant reduction in inflammation across the whole body, which ...

Partnered Health, a network of GP clinics across the country, has announced it was hit by a major cyber attack on June 23rd, with thousands of sensitive medical records and personal information stolen ...

The COVID-19 pandemic allowed German scientists to study the timing of seasonal respiratory diseases like flu and RSV. Using modelling tools, they found that when a seasonal surge of illnesses was ...