Public Health

Average wait times for ambulances in Tasmania have exceeded worst-case scenario projections, despite extra resourcing, with many staff wanting to change careers, new survey results show. 

Flu cases have come down since the record-breaking 2025 season but experts warn against a "false sense of security".

Most of the sunscreens that failed to meet their SPF label claims, according to independent testing, are still under investigation by the regulator one year later. 

Tensions are running high as officials fight to stop the rapid spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where aid workers tell the ABC they are already playing catch-up with the deadly disease.

As household budgets tighten, keeping up a health and fitness regime often slips, but experts say giving people cheap or free ways to stay fit is critical to longer-term wellbeing.

Independent MP David O'Byrne asks Health Minister Bridget Archer about a directive to Tasmanian nurses to stop wearing colourful scrubs.

Katherine residents have welcomed a $2 billion lawsuit over PFAS contamination in the town, saying "it's about time we started holding large corporations to account".

WorkSafe charges Northern Territory Health with failing to comply with health and safety duties over the death of a mental health in-patient at Royal Darwin Hospital in 2022.

Years after bushfires covered their cities in smoke, mothers are left wondering if their children's chronic illnesses began with what was in the air before they were born.

From Perth's latest quarantine experience to a cultural burial on Rottnest Island, here are our top ABC News photos for Western Australia in May.

Internal Northern Territory Health data leaked to the ABC reveals diphtheria case numbers surged in the NT a month before a public health alert was issued. The data also offers the first public insight into the regions hit hardest by the outbreak.

Mount Isa mother Kristen Curd spent four months in Townsville after giving birth to premature twin boys, and says the hardest part began when they finally came home.

Health authorities in Western Australia's far north say they are battling disinformation and misconceptions amid a vaccination drive to contain a diphtheria outbreak.

Kevin O'Neill says Queensland's patient travel subsidy scheme left him stranded with a dangerous medical condition 300 kilometres from home. Patient advocates say it is one of a litany of failures they hope will be fixed in a review of the scheme.

Six people who were on a cruise ship that was hit by an outbreak of hantavirus have had their quarantine period in the outer Perth suburb of Bullsbrook extended until June 23. 

Authorities keep a close eye on measles outbreaks in Asia, as many cases reported in Australia continue to be returned overseas travellers. 

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The Northern Territory government says the rate of new diphtheria cases in the territory has fallen from more than 20 per week to less than 10 after 10,000 Territorians stepped up to be immunised against the ongoing outbreak.

Residents and service providers in the remote community of Yuendumu, where there are reports of dozens of diphtheria cases, say the NT government has not done enough to keep people safe.

The Northern Territory health department is refuting an earlier report that a second person has died with diphtheria in the NT, amid Australia's largest outbreak of the disease since records began.