The death rate among people with dementia was down during the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report found that the slight drop occurred over the first 10 months of 2020 compared with ...

The federal government has been accused of “forgetting” Australians with disability after “absolutely shameful” revelations over vaccine rates among the vulnerable group. A parliamentary inquiry on COVID-19 heard on Tuesday just 6.5 per cent of Australians living with disability had ...

New research has found that a profound inability to feel pleasure, known as anhedonia, is a key feature of early onset dementia and the study could provide an area for future treatments of the condition. Anhedonia is technically defined as ...

Australia is interested in producing a cutting-edge form of COVID-19 vaccine onshore, but the Health Minister warns it could take the “best part of a year” for manufacturing to begin. Greg Hunt says the federal government has a “very high interest” in ...

A group of aged care peak bodies has called on the Government to adopt their new 15-point plan to improve the aged care system in the quickest time possible. The Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), the newly formed group of ...

Police are investigating the death of an elderly woman at a Regis aged care facility in Perth’s leafy western suburbs. The 89-year-old woman died at the Nedlands facility on Tuesday. “Major crime division officers are making inquiries to determine the cause and circumstances ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has agreed to or noted all 55 recommendations in a report on sexual harassment in the workplace, one year on from its release. At a press conference, Morrison called the [email protected] Report a “game changer”. It ...

A new review of paracetamol has revealed it has only been proven to relive pain in four conditions. The University of Sydney systematic review, published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia, held that for most conditions, evidence regarding ...

Australia’s chief medical officer has said there is no apparent causal link between the death of an elderly Queensland woman and the COVID-19 vaccination she received hours earlier. The 82-year-old, who had been living at the Blue Care Yurana aged ...

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has defended Australia’s vaccine rollout after states and territories lashed the government over claims they were holding back vaccine doses from the public. Australia has administered a mere 670,000 vaccines as of March 31, falling ...