Public Health

South Australia is currently experiencing a whooping cough wave, with the number of reported cases already climbing to 1,349.

Mental health professionals say a move to temporary relocate a facility will disadvantage patients, but health authorities say they will transport staff, clients and carers to and from the new location.

A smell of rotten eggs which permeated homes in south-east Queensland for months has resulted in a record fine for a commercial landfill company.

Visitors spotted human excrement near the Little Blue Lake sinkhole earlier this year. But a push for a toilet facility has come to nothing.

The government of Laos breaks its silence over the deaths of six tourists from methanol poisoning, saying it is "profoundly saddened".

Australian methanol poisoning survivors have shared their experiences of consuming tainted alcohol after two teenagers fell ill in Laos and died this week.

Even after the federal government introduced world-first anti-vaping laws, there seems to be no shortage of tobacconists selling them.

Since the beginning of October, 14 children have presented to South Australia's Women's and Children's Hospital with mountain bike injuries – some of them life threatening.

Adam Quarrell says being an NDIS participant is like "being in an abusive relationship". He's fighting to have funding restored in his care plan for catheters, without which he says he will die.

Sydney researchers have begun looking at the potential of genomic sequencing, and if it could be used to respond to outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease.

The federal government has announced its latest effort to crackdown on vaping among children, with a new program developed with insights from 5,000 schoolkids across the country.

An email obtained by the ABC confirms Queanbeyan Hospital has stopped providing surgical terminations for fetal anomalies and medical reasons, restricting access to a legal and time-critical form of reproductive health care.

Gastro cases explode in 12 months, with the cryptosporidiosis parasite causing a large number of children to get sick.

A public hospital in regional New South Wales is restoring abortion services after an ABC investigation revealed the executive had banned staff from providing terminations to patients for non-medical reasons.

Leaked documents show staff at the public hospital in Orange can no longer provide abortion services for patients who present without medical complications, further restricting regional women's access to time-critical reproductive health care. 

The South Australian government is concerned the evidence of a top doctor due to appear at an inquest into three ramping-related deaths could cause embarrassment, the Supreme Court has been told.

Health authorities in SA issue an urgent warning to hospitals and GPs after a patient who consumed a substance sold as a complementary medicine suffered severe lead poisoning.

NSW Health advises clients of Fresh Cosmetic Clinic in George Street, who had injections or underwent invasive procedures including breast implants, facial or nasal-line carving, should visit their GP to request the tests as soon as possible.

Decriminalisation was meant to give women access to safe, affordable abortions as a form of health care. Five years on, the ABC can reveal glaring examples of the system failing people in rural and regional areas at almost every step. 

John Reid has had stitches in his eyeball for 890 days, but it's meant his vision is now restored.