The Latest Breaking News from NSW Health

Experts are calling for parents to be vigilant as cases of a lung virus that causes inflammation of the airways grow in NSW.

NSW Health is calling it "one of the most challenging quarters on record", citing the impact of the Omicron peak.

Health secretary says emergency departments remain under significant pressure due to high Covid-19 and flu cases

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The union representing prison officers - and a range of other workers considered by many to have been on the front line at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic - says the NSW government should also give one-off payments, like those promised to health workers this week, to employees in…

A man in his 50s has become the second person to be diagnosed with monkeypox in NSW and the third in Australia.

Queanbeyan pharmacists were working through the implication of free flu shots.

An inquest calls out shortcomings in the care of 18-year-old Alex Baes, who died from a toe infection despite attending Broken Hill Hospital four times in less than two days.

Health authorities are urging anyone who visited the CBD in the past 10 days to be on alert for symptoms of a fever, cough or shortness of breath.

Visitors to the city in the past 10 days advised to look out for symptoms after five people admitted to hospital

MORNING BRIEFING: Sydney has woken up to a thick blanket of heavy fog over much of the city and metropolitan area.