The Latest Breaking News from Health Care

Millions of Australians will have better access to free GP visits under a generational investment in Medicare unveiled in the 2023 budget.

Queensland is losing health care professionals to interstate job vacancies, so the government is offering them more money to stay local.

Crisis pregnancy centers lure patients with free services, but give women misinformation with the goal of stopping them from having abortions, the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of Illinois writes. SB1909 will hold the centers accountable.

There were four major changes for health care in the 2023-24 budget: prioritising primary care, funding to strengthen Medicare, cheaper access to common medicines, and new funding to keep the digital health system going. Many of these changes were foreshadowed in recent weeks.

Odessa Carey has been detained at a secure hospital after her mum's death.

Two transgender children, their families and allied health care providers are challenging a Montana law that would ben gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth

An inquest into the death of Odessa senior in Ashington hears details of mental health services involvement in run up to tragedy

The winter plan speaks about primary care, but not a comprehensive approach to primary health care. It’s only a one-word omission, but the implications are revealing

Trump’s has targeted DeSantis’ congressional votes that endorsed changes in seniors' benefits. Some Trump backers voted the same way, however.

The Canadian Mental Health Association estimates that one in five Canadians will experience a mental health challenge. The full impact of mental health issues is even broader: almost every adult Canadian at some point has either been directly affected, or has a family member, friend or colleague with a mental…

Releasing the terminally ill and seriously disabled, under a 2022 law, would help ease the burden on the state’s disastrous prison health care system. The state needs to provide funding so attorneys can transition prisoners back home, writes Jennifer Soble of the Illinois Prison Project.