Health

Millions of Australians with chronic medical conditions will find it much cheaper to obtain medicines under a new measure to be included in next...

Patients must be put before profits, warns a peak body representing doctors as pressure mounts for the federal budget to address rising medical costs.   Treasurer...

Greater prescribing powers for pharmacists has widened the rift between doctors who fear for patient safety and pharmacists who say it will ease pressure...

More than 1.6 million discounted prescriptions were filled in January after the maximum co-payment for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was discounted.  The gap reduction from $42.50...

Australians are delaying seeing a doctor or filling a script due to the rising costs of health care, according to a new report.  Prime Minister...

Nurses, paramedics and allied health professionals will soon be included in the delivery of primary care as Medicare faces the biggest overhaul in its...

Australia's peak medical body is calling on the federal government to consider onshore antibiotic manufacturing amid supply shortages across the country. More than 300 medications...

Doctors have slammed a move allowing pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics and reissue certain prescriptions under a Victorian Labor election promise, over fears it could...

Australians are living longer despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused life expectancy to drop in many of the world's richest nations. Australian Bureau of Statistics...

Patients will have access to cheaper medicines at the pharmacy after new laws passed parliament. The legislation lowered the maximum general co-payment on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme...