Japan has detected bird flu of the virulent H5N1 strain in another swan, in the third case in the country this year.
British women have moved closer to being able to have early, drug-induced abortions in health centres, GP surgeries and family planning clinics.
An 11-month-old boy from Adelaide has been admitted to hospital with invasive meningococcal disease.
A car wash has closed after it was revealed it could be linked to an outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Melbourne's south-west.
Improvements are needed to the way cancer cases are recorded in order to speed up the response to clusters of the illness, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says.
More Australian babies were born in 2006 than in any other year during the past three decades, new data shows.
A type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes, US researchers say.
The federal government's health reform blueprint has fallen short by not calling for benchmarks for GP training numbers, a doctors' group says.
Queensland government staff could be relocated from a Brisbane CBD office building if fears of a cancer cluster prove true, Premier Anna Bligh says.
Two more people have been diagnosed with legionnaires' disease at Werribee, south-west of Melbourne.
The Cancer Council and the South Australian government have launched a $100 million, 10-year fight against the disease.
Cigarettes cost the average Australian smoker about $300,000 in their lifetime, a new calculation shows.
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