The Latest Breaking News from Health Department

A new study highlights the need for Thais to exercise more to ensure good health, with 76% spending seven hours or more sitting down each day, Health Department director-general Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai said.

Like so many others in aged care, Viv Allanson says it is going to be "impossible" for her facility to meet key government deadlines for new standards in the sector, saying "the pressure is absolutely enormous".

A senior health bureaucrat, who was wined, dined and given interstate and overseas travel in exchange for government work is sentenced to four-and-a-half years jail.

At least 18 people, most of them children, die within 16 days as residents report foul smell from two factories.

The heartbroken family of a young woman who died in custody are trying to piece together what happened and say questions must be answered about her medical care in the lead up to her death.

The Health Department of Uttarakhand has successfully completed the trial of drone technology to deliver medicines and vaccines in a time-bound manner. Read on For Details:

The wording of a letter informing patients their mental health service is in crisis is "a template, in case it's needed in the future", Tasmania's health department says — but a health union says it shows mental health care is "in such a state it might be embarrassing to admit".

New rules allowing overseas-trained doctors to now work in some outer suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney, and in major regional cities, mean even fewer GPs are willing to work in the bush.

Western Australia's Industrial Relations Commission orders the state's nurses to call off planned industrial action – an instruction that will almost certainly be ignored.